“How much of this shit do we have to listen to?” Trump asked
Trump did a talk for donors at Mar-a-Lago last night, in which he explained that he killed Suleimani because he said bad things about us.
In his speech — held inside the gilded ballroom on his Mar-a-Lago property — he claimed that Soleimani was “saying bad things about our country” before the strike, which led to his decision to authorize his killing.
“How much of this shit do we have to listen to?” Trump asked. “How much are we going to listen to?”
Who knew that badmouthing the US was a capital offense? Trump says bad things about most countries; does that mean those countries all have a right to take him out with a drone?
Trump did not describe an “imminent threat” that led to his decision to kill Soleimani, the justification used by administration officials in the aftermath of the attack.
Almost as if that was just the pretext, for public consumption.
He went on to recount listening to military officials as they watched the strike from “cameras that are miles in the sky.”
Of course he did. Big boy playing with real guns! Look at big boy!
“They’re together sir,” Trump recalled the military officials saying. “Sir, they have two minutes and 11 seconds. No emotion. ‘2 minutes and 11 seconds to live, sir. They’re in the car, they’re in an armored vehicle. Sir, they have approximately one minute to live, sir. 30 seconds. 10, 9, 8 …’ ”
“Then all of a sudden, boom,” he went on. “‘They’re gone, sir. Cutting off.'”
That’s four “sirs” in that short passage. He does love being called “sir,” bone spurs or no bone spurs. Next to killing people, it might be his favorite thing.
It’s hard to pick out just one disturbing thing, here. I had not previously heard about the gruesome countdown (2 minutes to live, 1 minute to live …) The kind of people who enjoy those sorts of details have no business in politics, let alone the military. I wouldn’t even want to sit next to them at dinner.
Yes this was the dirty stuff he saved for the donors.
He’s gonna need a lot more drones if he escalates to killing people who say bad things about him…
I don’t believe that’s how the strike was described to Trump at all. The military official relaying the information would almost certainly be counting down to ‘impact’, then announcing ‘impact’ followed by a pause while the smoke cleared in order for them to confirm ‘target destroyed’ rather than the Hollywood version that existed only in Trump’s fevered imagination.
I’m just going to point out that by this criteria, the military’s next target should be that guy who called America a “Third-world Nation”. What was his name again?
That would be so so bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ZD3_ppcPE
“Who knew that badmouthing the US was a capital offense [sic? ;>] ?
I dunno . . . Sakay? Sandino? Castro? Allende?
Surely that’s poorly poised rhetorical question?
If all the countries Trump has insulted decided to send drones in punishment at the same time, it would be a nightmare for US air traffic control.
I can’t decide whether there would be heated arguments about who gets to launch first, or whether there would be a unanimous international agreement to all fire their missiles simultaneously..