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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 04:49 PM Apr 2018

Trump vows Iran 'will not be doing nuclear weapons'

Source: Politico



By QUINT FORGEY 04/27/2018 03:15 PM EDT

President Donald Trump on Friday pledged Iran “will not be doing nuclear weapons,” but stopped short of saying he'd pull out of the nuclear deal the Obama administration negotiated with the Middle Eastern power in 2015.

“They will not be doing nuclear weapons, I can tell you,” Trump said during a joint press conference at the White House with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “You can bank on it.”

Asked whether she shared Trump’s qualms about the deal, Merkel said German diplomats would “continue to be in very close talks on this” with the United States.

“It is one piece of the mosaic — one building block, if you like — on which we can build up this structure,” she said. “We want to see what sort of decisions are made by our American partners.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/27/url-donald-trump-iran-nuclear-weapons-557612

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Trump vows Iran 'will not be doing nuclear weapons' (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
Trump........................ turbinetree Apr 2018 #1
What's the real damage that he is doing TranssexualKaren Apr 2018 #2
He Cried Wolf Esteban Apr 2018 #6
This inarticulate, incoherent babble-mouth RockRaven Apr 2018 #3
Every time Trump opens his mouth, an idiot starts talking. John Fante Apr 2018 #4
What is there to vow on? djacq Apr 2018 #5

TranssexualKaren

(364 posts)
2. What's the real damage that he is doing
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 05:07 PM
Apr 2018

Yes it’s fun to snicker at the self important blowhard impotently issuing threats that everyone knows he won’t follow through on...but what happens when the 46th president has to lay down a red line in front of a foreign adversary and no one believes him!?!?

RockRaven

(15,019 posts)
3. This inarticulate, incoherent babble-mouth
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 05:10 PM
Apr 2018

is a goddamned embarrassment. A pox on those responsible for inflicting him upon the world.

John Fante

(3,479 posts)
4. Every time Trump opens his mouth, an idiot starts talking.
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 05:33 PM
Apr 2018

"They will not be doing nuclear weapons".

Thanks for those stirring words, dipshit.

djacq

(1,634 posts)
5. What is there to vow on?
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 06:24 PM
Apr 2018

One of North Korea’s nuclear facilities literally collapsed.

That’s like vowing that there will be air to breath in the morning.

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