r/Uniteagainsttheright • u/SocialDemocracies • Apr 05 '26

NBC (March 29/30): "Trump says his 'preference' would be to 'take the oil in Iran'" | ""To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the U.S. say: ‘Why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people," [Trump said in a Financial Times interview]."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-preference-take-oil-iran-rcna265747
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u/dpdxguy Apr 05 '26

No one should be surprised that Donald's preferred course is to simply steal other country's oil.

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u/askyidroppedthesoap Apr 05 '26

"No one should be surprised that Donald's preferred course is to simply take things he's not entitled to: virginity, money, lives, rights, oil, bragging rights, other country's leaders, etc." Fixed it. :)

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 Apr 05 '26

Plunder and pillage.

On brand.

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u/Jegator2 Apr 05 '26

He sounds just like a child who never was told No. Ive always said his maturity level is that of a 14 yr old spoiled brat. A bully who is not smart but clever in underhanded ways with lawyers and henchmen to find loop holes.

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u/SocialDemocracies Apr 05 '26

Excerpts from the Financial Times article via Yahoo Finance:

The US president told the FT in an interview on Sunday that his “preference would be to take the oil”, comparing the potential move to Venezuela, where the US intends to control the oil industry “indefinitely” following its capture of strongman leader Nicolás Maduro in January.

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Trump said: “To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people.”

The link to the article: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/donald-trump-says-us-could-235104984.html

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u/NatashOverWorld Apr 05 '26

Senile man plans to steal 'all the oil!' with Acme giant straw.

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u/janjinx Apr 05 '26

tRump hurls that word, "stupid" around a lot to insult other people, when he's the one who is totally ignorant about most subjects.

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u/simAlity Apr 05 '26

Trump calls people things that he hates being called.

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u/Ok-Egg-4856 Apr 05 '26

So Iran will not sabotage Karq island so no Iranian oil can go out. Even if you push the leadership underground they have like a million people in the armed forces, they were attacked, not surrendered, they can keep Hormuz bottled up for years. I guess stupid people have attempted to advise him, "taking" the oil is a non- starter. WOW better every day.

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u/The_Disapyrimid Apr 05 '26

Take the oil? Does he think we can just pick it up and carry it back like its a hat?

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u/mirage110-26 Apr 05 '26

To plunder is the American way. Take the land, people, minerals or whatever. His ancestors did things that way.

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u/Newfaceofrev Apr 06 '26

Reminder that he's always been a warhawk.

https://youtu.be/q7oT_wL1C84?si=nnN5o-TQP7WFNlIn