"Those watching the markets observed massive trades yesterday just before Trump’s announcement. Regulators are currently examining similar trades from one of Trump’s similar announcements last month.”

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"On Friday, Trump went on a full blitz, calling reporters and claiming there was this massive breakthrough in ceasefire negotiations. He said the Strait of Hormuz was fully open, that there was cooperation between U.S. and Iranian forces to remove nuclear material, that Iran agreed to stop funding proxy groups—all of it."

~ Ben Meiselas

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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/important-sunday-message-from-meidastouch-cb6

"He framed it like this historic victory.

And look, Trump lies a lot. We all know that. But even by his standards, this was on another level.

What made it worse? A lot of corporate media just ran with it. No verification. No skepticism. They gleefully took on the role of stenographer."

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"Even in his dementing state, he knows the storyline is getting stale, which is why he now increases the amount of raw meat he throws to his base.

Here’s me as Jesus! Here’s me spewing vulgarities on Easter! Here’s me threatening nuclear annihilation!

Strait of Hormuz! Strait of Hormuz! Strait of Hormuz!"

~ Heidi Cuda

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https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/trumpmania-the-worlds-first-kayfabe

Malcolm Nance notes that Donald Trump "did a very weird thing last night — weirder than normal." At 9:30 on a Saturday night, he tweeted out a video of Frank Sinatra singing about the arrival of the final curtain, and regrets he has had as the curtain falls — though he did things his way.

"The political world is aflame about this video," Nance says — because what does it mean? Is Trump telling us he's shuffling off the mortal coil?

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https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/us-iran-warcast-day-51-live-with

Or is he trolling us? Nance says,

"This could impact negotiations. Dramatically. … If Trump is dropping a message that he is ill, he is more ill than he's let on, and that he may be terminally ill and is now understanding his mortality: somebody had better clear this shit up because one, I don't want JD Vance in there."

#Trump #Iran #StraitofHormuz
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"Soon after Trump’s holiday post, aides fielded calls from Republican senators and Christian leaders. They asked, why would he say 'Praise be to Allah' on Easter morning? Why would he use the F-word? Trump swears profusely in private but usually calibrates it in public and on social media."

~ Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey

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https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-public-bravado-private-fear-59814dca?st=F83sdq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

"When one adviser later asked him about it, he said he came up with the Allah idea himself. He said he wanted to seem as unstable and insulting as possible, believing it could bring the Iranians to the table, senior administration officials said."

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"Of course the way the Iranians, and the rest of the world are reading this completely unhinged behavior is that they are the pathetic, childish screams of an addled, old man who has badly fucked up and lost control of this ridiculous war."

~ Simon Rosenberg

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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hopium-the-strait-remains

"The Strait remains closed, 'talks' recommence, he and MAGA continue to melt down, and we are left with someone, it is increasingly clear, who is far more mad than King…."

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/11

"My bet is that Trump will end this war on terms that will be less good than either where we were on February 27 or than those we had as part of the prior Iran nuclear agreement that Trump tore up. He will try to do it as soon as he can although the path to that peace is likely, of course, as with everything Trump, as with everything to do with this misbegotten conflict, to be very messy at times."

~ David Rothkopf

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https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/trumps-five-big-unspoken-iran-war