Trump: Iranian boats that make improper ‘gestures’ will be ‘shot out of the water’
Source: Washington Post
As Trump shared his plans to dramatically grow the "depleted military" and grow the number of Navy ships to 350, he brought up Iran, a country he has frequently said takes advantage of the United States' generosity.
"And, by the way, with Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people, that they shouldn't be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water," Trump said to thunderous applause. Soon the crowd began to chant: "USA! USA! USA!"
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Later in the rally, Trump said that Clinton could not be trusted to make clear-headed military decisions.
"Her policies have produced only death, destruction and not diplomacy," Trump said. "She's trigger-happy, and now she's trying to say like she's this — let me tell you, folks, personally? Personally? I think she's an unstable person. Okay? She is trigger-happy."
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/09/trump-iranian-boats-that-make-improper-gestures-will-be-shot-out-of-the-water/
Irony, sweet irony.
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with many important abilities missing. He's always been this way. Gary Trudeau's just published a book of 30 years of Trump cartoons--30 years because he's been pushing himself into the NY spotlight for over that long, and he was the same buffoon then as now. Trudeau on how Trump became a cartoon strip character:
And it was an early transfer—easy transfer. He wasn’t a parody exactly; he was really more like a natural born toon. I just took him out of the box, removed the tags and put him right into the strip. And I think he’s—you know, he’s like a version of Daffy Duck, I mean, in terms of his appearance, the silly way in which he talks, the over-the-top self-regard. All these things just made him a perfect cartoon character. And so, I just had him interact with the other characters as a peer, and they interact with him as just a, you know, comic strip colleague. And I didn’t have to make any adjustments. I would take the things he said and reframe them in a way, you know, to maximize the satiric purpose of it, but I didn’t have to do much in terms of exaggerating, the way you normally do in a parody. ...
AMY GOODMAN: I want to go to 1999. You have a cartoon with Donald Trump saying, quote, "A lot of people have been asking what this election is really about. Well, it’s not about the economy, stupid! And it’s not character, stupid! And it’s not authenticity, stupid! It’s not even about the issues, stupid! You want to know what this election is about?" Someone then says, "You, stupid?" Trump replies, "Exactly! People are begging me to run! Begging me!"
GARRY TRUDEAU: Oh, they’re always begging him, and there are always hundreds of calls. And what’s astonishing is these things are obviously made up. But what’s most astonishing about his lack of truth is that he wheels it out for the most banal and trivial of reasons. I was talking to a crew member on CNN who said he was in his office setting up a camera—this was a while back—and he overheard Trump talking to his daughter in the outer office. And he said, "Well, there are five cameras in my office." And he said, "Five? There was one. I was setting up one camera." Why lie to your daughter about how many cameras in your—I mean, the most, you know, insignificant things get lied about, and right up to last night, when he was imagining a video he never saw.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/5/30_years_of_doonesbury_on_donald
I wonder if the Orange guy even knows where the Straits of Hormuz are, and how easy it would be to lob a few silkworm missiles down the lanes and shut off the area from all trade.
Is the final arbiter of who may be President. Huh, learn something every day.
