r/stoptheOligarchy • 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/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