Trump threatens to attack Iran's power plants if Strait of Hormuz not opened within 48 hours

https://lemmy.today/post/49762341

So I have a crackpot theory…

The Mueller tweet and now this, I’m starting to actually believe this isn’t Trump at all, and this is a team conspiring to 25th him and give them an out of the Iran situation.

Like “ok, we admit it he’s gone nuts, so whoopsie and Iran don’t worry we will make this right so let’s just settle down now”

I think this is Trump. He hears the footsteps coming, so he’s getting desperate, and doing anything he can to stop the inevitable.

He can’t actually do this. This would turn a lot of fencesitters against the USA, and give them a very clear and legally justifiable reason to do so.

I mean, in no way am I super confident in this theory but there is something off to me about how egregious his posts were today.

about how egregious his posts were today

Right. Since he’s been much worse than usual today, I’m thinking he had a bad meeting with his lobbyist friends this morning, and all of them said, “Get this shit solved or we’re impeaching your ass and getting something figured out with Vance”.

And Trump doesn’t care about fencesitters. He’s hoping he’ll come out ahead should he keep the lobbyists on his side.

Oh yeah the orange turd only does logical and legal things have you not been paying attention?

I have, and that’s my point.

Obviously he’s done stupid shit. But as far as I can see, this is the only time he’s issued such a specific threat with a agressively specific deadline…ever? And it happens to be an obvious and very serious war crime.

And right after a tweet that goes out of its way to be extremely tasteless, even for Trump.

It’s just…off. His bluster doesn’t usually scare me, at all. This one scares me.

Have you not seen all of his recent responses which are, verbatim, “I can do whatever I want.”?
Oh I’m aware of what he thinks. But that rarely reflects reality.
He could try what Adolf did when the walls were closing in on him. That might be the only thing he could do this week to boost his approval numbers.
He would absolutely launch the nukes before doing what you’re suggesting.
Great. A demented, desperate octogenarian criminal piece of shit human with his thumb on the nuclear trigger. Good job all you asshole voters!

Yea I know I would totally trust a country that killed my family, continues to bomb me, and murdered a school full of kids simply because “whoopsie doopsie the guy running the show was out of his mind”

They can but Iran isnt going to back down for a promise.