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Adding some sources, in case people think these quotes are satirical.
Edits: some longer quotes (which takes away from the punchy format by Linken) and non-chronological groupings.
2026-02-28 "When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take"
2026-04-01 "We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders' death — they're all dead [...] The new group is less radical and much more reasonable."
2026-04-01 "We are in this military operation so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries, for 32 days,"
2026-04-01 "We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong."
2026-04-04 "48 hours before all Hell will reign [sic] down on them."
2026-04-05 "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
2026-04-06 "Every bridge in Iran [...] every power plant [...] I mean complete demolition by 12 o'clock"
2026-04-07 "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."
Thank you! I copied the comment from elsewhere, I appreciate your additions!
This should be a wiki.
I like your post. 50 years from now, high school students are going to open their US History book and read what the orange bumble fuck said during a war he started. Humiliating and perhaps the Americans might learn a lesson from the MAGA disaster.
If americans could learn we wouldn't have a 2nd trump presidency. We're on average stupider than bart with the cupcakes.
This combination of generations is lost. Most of the age groups are either pushing for things to get worse, ignoring things that are bad or rooting on the coming apocalypse. It'll get better when we get a few more new gens in the game, asuming it can be recovered
It's all just inequality dressed up as something else. People are miserable here because it's a country by and for rich people which even the rich don't enjoy in the end. Rich people exploit that sense of misery to give us...king-size diaper donny as president twice.
Not that long ago, a single factory worker made enough to buy a small house, a car, have 2 kids and take a 2 week yearly vacation.
We're really pumping the gas on inequity.
If you think your government isn't lying to you... I have some news
Preaching to the choir. Good job ignoring what your government is lying about while doubling down on obvious common knowledge.
USians need to be humbled, I say as I live here.
Considering what they are trying to do to this generations history books, I do wonder what they will contain in 50 years.
Apr 8: TACO!
(I hope)
That's the thing I was wondering about the TACO meme. Is it good to mock him on chickening out when it is best for everybody that he does chicken out?
In that case, we should reinforce good behaviour by praising him:
Trump Admirably Chickened Out
It's always a good idea to mock him. If he can't handle it he is free to resign.
Does it matter? I think he doesn't even touch the internet anymore and just has an assistant posting for him
On the contrary, I think everyone in the White House keeps feeding him pleasant lies and what's why he can go out in public and say all that BS
He did TACO!
I'm taking the bet that he's going to fold faster than Superman on laundry day.
Beautiful. Thanks for compiling this.
From that, he does seem to have been getting a lot more agitated over the past week. We'll see how that translates into actions.
I can’t take credit I copy/pasted- but everyone should see it!
He's the biggest fucking dumbass in the universe.
Nah, not so long as there's someone who will believe a word he says.
"Who's the bigger dumbass? The dumbass or the dumbass who follows him?"
I swear we live in the dumbest timeline. Can we switch back to pre-Covid timeline before Trump?
That... was Trump too.youre looking for pre 2017.
Honestly Trump 2017-2019 doesn't even seem that bad anymore...
Oh dear God, the fact that such a statement can be made...
Imagine if, in 2019, you got a flash-forward to that statement. I wonder what terrors your imagination would conjour up, and whether they'd be better or worse than reality.
That's why covid was so bad.
this guy is starting to behave a lot like that putin guy
waaaaaiiit uuuuppp....
The USA is a second-world country. There are no first-world countries.
This should be the front page of a wiki, so others can add citations and readers can drill down. But it should absolutely preserve this level of summary. It was highly effective at putting the arc into perspective without embellishment. I might recommend reframing the entries for March 28, 29, 31 and April 2, 4 as summaried utterances instead, as I found the switch to an overtly editorial summary to be jarring.
I copied it from elsewhere - but I love your idea! Someone should definitely catalog and archive this
If I decide to build that, who would the attribution need to go to? eg: who is your genius tier source
I can’t say for certain this is where I saw it, but I googled “Trump Iran Copy Pasta” and this came up
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/Eky8TBr61N
edit: This user added some great links:
https://lemmy.world/post/45297979/23099786
And now he says they agreed to a cease fire and reopen the Strait.
is this list accurate and not embellished for comedic effect?
The summaries are not real quotes, obviously, and is obviously selected to emphasise the shifting nature of the administration's position … but yeah, I would say it's broadly actuate.
Is he going to nuke them I wonder? What else could that final threat be?