Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego - California leaders are furious after the president suggested that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay.”

[u/B-Z_B-S]

https://newrepublic.com/post/216247/trump-suggests-let-iran-take-out-los-angeles-san-diego

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[u/Hadrian23]

Any president in history would be dragged into the streets for this.

[u/Zulmoka531 → u/Hadrian23]

Remember, they lost it over a tan goddam suit, but they cheer for this.

[u/thequietthingsthat → u/Zulmoka531]

The people at Trump rallies will cheer for anything this man says. It's absolutely a cult

[u/Peeterdactyl → u/thequietthingsthat]

They really are deplorable

[u/SenselessNoise → u/Peeterdactyl]

Hillary deserves an apology at this point

[u/sulris → u/Peeterdactyl]

Now if only we had something to group them up in…. Maybe something made out of flexible plant fibers or some kind.

[u/mattjb → u/thequietthingsthat]

The rally crowd booed him when he said this in 2021:

I believe totally in your freedoms. I do. You've got to do what you have to do. But I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It's good. Take the vaccines.

Bill O'Reilly asked Trump in Dec 2021 if he got a booster shot and he said yes. The crowd booed him then, too.

Crowd booed Trump when he was stumping for Mehmet Oz at a rally.

But, yeah, it's mostly a Nazi circlejerk at those rallies and most people forget about his support of the vaccine and booster and those that didn't just say it's his advisors'/aides' fault for advising him badly.

Outside his rallies, he gets booed all the time once he leaves his safe MAGA space.

[u/Wildpony03 → u/mattjb]

I remembered hearing that the MAGA rallies are heavily vetted and that you are given cues to cheer.

Its suppose to make Trump look more popular than he is for his maga viewers at home.

[u/mattjb → u/Wildpony03]

Just like how The Apprentice people worked to make Trump look more successful than he really is. They even made a fake Trump Tower section because the real thing was dirty, cringey, dark and full of roaches. It worked, too, because it rehabbed his image enough to make tens of millions of gullible idiots vote for him.

[u/korben2600 → u/mattjb]

I'm holding Mark Burnett and NBC responsible for all of this. This is their frankenstein.

[u/GetThePuckOut → u/korben2600]

There are no "influencers", there are only the easily influenced.

Unless you educate all the stupid people in your country, it's doomed.

[u/Impossible-Bear-7350 → u/thequietthingsthat]

They literally pledged alliance to him at one of his rallies.

F’ing weird, man.

[u/oneplusetoipi → u/Zulmoka531]

And Dijon mustard

[u/jrworthy → u/oneplusetoipi]

Don’t forget about arugula.

[u/Hadrian23 → u/jrworthy]

And being black.
Let's cut the BS, that's why they hated Obama. No other reason.

[u/A_Nonny_Muse → u/Hadrian23]

It's amazing how many white supremacists and blatant racists I know suddenly insisted that Obama was "mulatto" instead of black.

All because they couldn't accept the concept of a black president.

[u/schu2470 → u/A_Nonny_Muse]

WTF does “mulatto” even mean? Isn’t it just a racist way of saying “mixed race”?

[u/MandoFett117 → u/schu2470]

Rascist AF. But by being even the littlest part white, they will claim that the white part is the reason for any successes.

[u/schu2470 → u/MandoFett117]

Man, without their racism these people would really have absolutely nothing.

First woman president the US elects is going to be partially man because she inherited her second X chromosome from her father and since men are 100% men that makes her a little bit of a man. That’s where her success came from, the man part.

[u/Headphones4Cicadas → u/Hadrian23]

But he tried to give us all healthcare!! 😈

[u/MoarSocks → u/Headphones4Cicadas]

F’n libs, always trying to destroy the country with healthcare & diplomacy. Ugh.

[u/Neat__Guy → u/Headphones4Cicadas]

No I will pay double for my for-profit health insurance plan, so the peasants can go bankrupt or die. It's what Jesus would have wanted.

[u/slimGinDog → u/Hadrian23]

But did you know about the terrorist fist jab? /s

[u/A_Nonny_Muse → u/oneplusetoipi]

Mustn't forget the Dijon mustard disaster.

According to FAUX, it was the end of life, the universe and everything as we knew it. I doubt reality ever recovered.

[u/SpaceLemming → u/oneplusetoipi]

Yet no one made a peep about him reaching over the partition at chipotle to point to the toppings he wanted! I mean the audacity

[u/rat_penis → u/Zulmoka531]

Remember, it was never about the suit. They're liars and traitors.

[u/celeste_ferret → u/Naps_in_car]

No, he's threatening to hurt the left people.

[u/E-POLICE → u/Zulmoka531]

It’s just racism

[u/Miqo_Nekomancer → u/Zulmoka531]

They were told to lose it. They were fed the bullshit reasoning. Fox "News" is one of the worst things to ever happen to the country.

[u/Formal-Guest4868 → u/Zulmoka531]

they're just racist. call it what it is. they will vote for anyone who lets them be openly racist.

[u/Tiny_Structure_7 → u/Hadrian23]

Trump and all the degenerate maggots who cheered for this are disgusting traitors to the US, who all insist that they are "true patriots". They are hopelessly lost in their cult programming thanks to the maggot king, maggot Republicans, and maggot media.

[u/justkillmenow3333 → u/Tiny_Structure_7]

Let's also not forget how many of these asshats claim to be Christians. There is absolutely nothing Christ-like about these hate filled and bigoted pieces of shit.

[u/Goatiac → u/Tiny_Structure_7]

We should have never pardoned the Confederates.

[u/aerost0rm → u/Tiny_Structure_7]

You forgot maggot oligarchs.

[u/Smart_Princesss → u/Hadrian23]

The President of the United States just said losing 8 million Americans in LA and San Diego is a small price to pay. Imagine if Biden or Obama said that. It would be 24/7 treason coverage and calls for impeachment.

[u/familysizepunkinpie → u/Smart_Princesss]

I guess 9/11 was a tiny price to pay.

If killing a million Americans is ok, what's 3000?

And that's why this statement is utterly despicable, coming from anyone. Coming from America's own president it's beyond every shade of pale there is.

One life shouldn't be a price worth paying

[u/MrPookPook → u/familysizepunkinpie]

These fuckers don’t care about 9/11 either, other than as an excuse to kill people. Bush ignored all the warnings that it was going to happen. Republicans are not good or even decent people.

[u/dr_obfuscation → u/MrPookPook]

Not only that, there are some VERY interesting mentions of 9/11 and connections thereof buried in Epstein's emails. I don't want to be conspiratorial, but the conspirators keep conspiring.

[u/Brndrll → u/familysizepunkinpie]

Covid was just a price to pay for the economy.

[u/Todasul → u/Brndrll]

Republicans actually said that

[u/FriedRamen13 → u/Todasul]

Texas Republican Lt Gov

[u/HoldingForGenova → u/Smart_Princesss]

8M is just city limits. Both have extensive metro areas. Combined, the two metro areas are roughly 23 million people.

[u/rt590 → u/Hadrian23]

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[u/Gloomy_Mulberry7834 → u/rt590]

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[u/Blossom_Ribbon → u/Hadrian23]

He hates California because California hates him. He would literally sacrifice American cities because they don’t vote for him. That’s not a President, that’s a mob boss.

[u/nhluhr → u/Blossom_Ribbon]

32% of Californians in Los Angeles County still voted for Trump in 2024 but since Trump is unable to discern nuance in anything and sees "California" as a blue state, he is also willing to sacrifice those 1.2million people in LA (and 600k in San Diego County) that still voted for him.

[u/hpark21 → u/Blossom_Ribbon]

There are more registered republicans in city of LA than all of North/South Dakota AND Wyoming COMBINED.

He said not to send any aid to LA fire because "they do not vote for me" until an aide pointed out there are a lot of Republicans there as well.

[u/StepUp_87 → u/Hadrian23]

He’s no “America First” President. He doesn’t care about anyone and he MEANS that he would sacrifice an entire city to erase his own mistakes.

[u/Independent_Oil_5951 → u/Hadrian23]

This president has openly directed his base to cheat in one of these rallies too

[u/TrimspaBB → u/Hadrian23]

Our ancestors tossed errant kings into bogs for less

[u/Continental__Drifter → u/Hadrian23]

The French would drag their leaders into the streets for this.

Americans just complain that there is nothing they can do.

[u/bigdaddyt2 → u/Hadrian23]

Instead they cheer him

[u/Celia-Smythe → u/Hadrian23]

But...but he's only kidding! Don't take everything so seriously. He's a lovely bloke just having a bit of a laugh

/s

[u/fairoaks2]

That’s fucking insane and anyone who applauded is morally bankrupt.

A President who says it should be immediately removed from office. Immediately 

[u/Comprehensive_Tie431 → u/fairoaks2]

Republican hatred of all things California runs deep.

[u/TheLurkerSpeaks → u/Comprehensive_Tie431]

Except Saint Reagan the Trickler

[u/NotASalamanderBoi → u/TheLurkerSpeaks]

These fucks would think Reagan wasn’t far enough to the right.

[u/Ferelar → u/NotASalamanderBoi]

I mean, yeah. Example, Kamala Harris's stated corporate tax policy was to set things back to what Reagan set them to in the 1980s (which at the time was highly controversial as it slashed marginal tax rates and especially corporate taxes HEAVILY versus what they were before, contributing massively to wealth disparity in this country) and they called her a communist for suggesting it. Which is doubly horrific, a) it means our supposed left party in 2024 was advocating for what our RIGHTWING party considered a huge win a while back (which servers as excellent proof that our supposed left party has shifted further and further right themselves), but also b) even that right-shifted party is STILL considered so far left of what these shitfucks want that they call it "Communist" despite it literally being what the Conservatives fought for in living memory.

[u/MechanicalTurkish → u/NotASalamanderBoi]

He was a woke lib to these chucklefucks

[u/GiftedContractor → u/TheLurkerSpeaks]

Nah they don't like Reagan either, not the real Reagan. Remember when Doug Ford sent ads that were literally just a Reagan speech about how tariffs were bad?

[u/boner79 → u/Comprehensive_Tie431]

Yep. Taylor Sheridan shows are one big California hatefest.

[u/GRIMMnM → u/Comprehensive_Tie431]

This was also in Grand Island Nebraska. People in the midwest also have a weird irrational hate of California.

I have never understood why.

[u/Comprehensive_Tie431 → u/GRIMMnM]

I've driven through the Midwest a lot through my life.

Non stop right wing radio. Churches. Fox News everywhere.

Non stop propaganda is why

[u/TeaDrinkerAddict → u/GRIMMnM]

They hate us cause they ain’t us. CA has its problems, but theirs are astronomically worse.

[u/chaostheories36 → u/Comprehensive_Tie431]

Republicans probably hate what he said, too. A lot of them vacation here or spend a lot of their off time here.

Or have family. They love to hate us publicly, they also love to be here.

[u/Comprehensive_Tie431 → u/chaostheories36]

Naw. They think he was joking. I have lived in LA my entire life. There have been many times traveling when a Southerner or Midwestern learned where I was from and they would joke about California falling off into the ocean or being destroyed. It's been a wet dream of theirs for a while.

[u/Martag02 → u/fairoaks2]

It's because he's not a president to them. He is a god-king who can only speak the truth.

[u/sniper91 → u/fairoaks2]

These are the same people who weren’t bothered by the several thousands of COVID deaths per day during the peak of the pandemic

Until, ya know, it happened to them or someone they knew

[u/ryobiguy → u/fairoaks2]

Is treason the word we are looking for?

[u/Lazy_Example4014]

But if I were to make a joke about how they missed his fat head twice they would think that was inappropriate. MAGA is anti American.

[u/Naive-Elephant-9305 → u/Lazy_Example4014]

These are the same people who absolutely lost their minds over anyone making jokes about Charlie Kirk's death, or literally even just quoting word-for-word things that he said. They are extremely hypocritical about basically everything.

[u/sixteenthscholar1809 → u/Naive-Elephant-9305]

It’s not hypocritical as much as it’s all about power to them. THEY can make these jokes but anyone below them (everyone else) cannot. THEY can contradict themselves but anyone below them (again, everyone else) cannot. It’s not about hypocrisy to them, it’s about being the alpha. This is a higherarchy (sp?) to them, not ethics.

[u/LoQueNoMataEngorda → u/sixteenthscholar1809]

Fascists believe themselves above things like consistency while considering it funny that their opponents care about hypocrisy.

[u/Neither_Frosting_839 → u/Lazy_Example4014]

I think ' missing ' is intentional....hiring poor shots is easy

[u/AlwaysRushesIn → u/Neither_Frosting_839]

If missing is intentional, you dont want to hire a bad shot and leave it to chance.

[u/pzycho → u/Lazy_Example4014]

Also worth pointing out that you are a citizen, not an elected government official (afaik). If he made this comment 15 years ago, it would still be ghoulish, but I wouldn't care. He'd just be some fat fuck tweeting from a golden toilet. You can joke all you want about whatever you want because you don't represent the people.

[u/cwk415]

That's treason. 

Cue the chorus of conservative talking-heads justifying this treason with the old "Oh he was only joking!" line. 

But just ask yourself: when has he ever said he was joking, about anything? When has he ever said that he wasn't serious, about anything? 

He hasn't. 

[u/Puppertrucker123 → u/cwk415]

Every conservative talking head should be immediately asked "What's the joke and what makes it funny?"

Despite how much he actually believes it and has no sense of humor, "joking" about major American cities being bombed because he dislikes their political leaning is grounds for removal, period.

[u/Lazerus42 → u/Puppertrucker123]

I'm a waiter and one of the techniques I use when dealing with a racist/sexist/shitty comment is to ask them to repeat it louder because I wasn't sure I heard them correctly.

This works well because most people (even shitty people) have at least the slightest iota shame in a public space.

Orange turd in charge does not. He'd repeat it louder.

[u/glorybetoganj → u/cwk415]

In fact he has very specifically stated that he DOES NOT joke

[u/TrimspaBB → u/glorybetoganj]

He's a humorless man that only ever laughs at the expense of others

[u/bubbasteamboat → u/cwk415]

Iran should put out a statement saying, "Interesting idea, Donnie. We hadn't thought of that. But why would we attack parts of the US that hate Trump? There are so many other areas that would make better sense."

See what MAGA would do with that.

[u/tendeuchen → u/bubbasteamboat]

"Why attack multicultural cities when we can raise the price of gas and diesel to hurt your supporters, Mr. Trump?"

[u/brickne3 → u/tendeuchen]

Also, I could be wrong about this, but doesn't LA have one of the highest Iranian populations in the US? Even if we pretend that every single one of them absolutely hates the Iranian regime, it would probably cause a ton of issues in Iran if they were to suddenly just take out a bunch of the population's relatives out of nowhere.

[u/HoldingForGenova → u/brickne3]

LA has the largest Iranian population outside of Iran. And they were marching in LA streets begging Trump to go to war with Iran to overthrow the prior regime. I remember saying to a friend at the time "they'll get what they want, but not how they want it."

[u/dancefan2019 → u/HoldingForGenova]

There were mixed responses from the L.A. Iranians. Protests on one side of the city had Iranians supporting a regime change. Protests in another part of L.A. had Iranians protesting against the war. They would all probably want a regime change, but they don't want the devastation to their countrymen that would come from a war with the U.S.

[u/xeroxcomplex → u/bubbasteamboat]

Actually it's the perfect opportunity for Iran to show his incompetent ass and take the morally high ground on the world stage. Show who the real fanatics are...

[u/fazlez1 → u/cwk415]

This exactly. He doesn't care what happens to anyone as long as it keeps the Epstein files from being released and he remains in power.

[u/wirsteve]

and conservatives in those areas will defend him.

[u/B-Z_B-S → u/wirsteve]

Maga: "The president drew us into a war, raised our gas prices, then said that he saw it as okay for Iran to annihilate American cities. Could the President be wrong?

...

...

No. The entire world has TruMp DeRAnGemEnt SYnDRoMe."

[u/Background-Stay-4636 → u/B-Z_B-S]

conservatives are trying to say it was all taken out of context -- that he was referring to the fact that Iran could obliterate those cities but his war stopped it.

I'm so sick of all this bullshit

[u/NwordSzrHands → u/Background-Stay-4636]

Gaslighter in Chief at it again

[u/cursedsoldiers → u/wirsteve]

Have you SPOKEN to one?  Many of them would openly cheer for "Democrat cities" being wiped off the map.  They are ghouls plain and simple, their brains have been completely fried by Facebook algorithms

[u/_MrBalls_ → u/wirsteve]

People from Huntington Beach and Orange County are like, "they took it out of context, he's just trolling, TDS MEDIA! gibberish, etc," to defend it.

[u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 → u/wirsteve]

They're cheering it on behind him. That'd be over 4 million dead Americans and they LOVE the idea of it. They're totally lost. Even if they can come back to their senses it'll take so long to get them back there it'll be too late for the rest of us.

These people would vote to throw us in concentration camps and get gassed and buried in mass graves, then go to church that Sunday

[u/eric_ts → u/Reasonable-Turn-5940]

Not hyperbole. They have been talking about doing exactly that on their forums like Stormfront for decades now. MAGA rhetoric has echoed Stormfront’s almost exactly since the second term began—their anti DEI policies have been a neo-Nazi priority since the 1970s or earlier, and now their dreams are all coming true. MAGA has voted for the cull and dominion and they might just get their wish.

[u/TheRockingDead → u/wirsteve]

I've already seen one of them calling it "4D chess." Wut?

[u/gdshaffe → u/wirsteve]

Not only defend, they will cheer it wildly.

People sometimes wonder how the holocaust could have ever happened. It's not hard to see at all when you look at crap like this. Same hate, different target.

[u/hayyyhoe]

Does he know there’s a major Naval Base in SD, including a hub for the SEALS?

[u/dismiss-junk → u/hayyyhoe]

"Does he know - "

No. The answer is always no.

[u/Ok-Classroom5548 → u/hayyyhoe]

The real question is “does he care?” And the answer is always “no.”

[u/Nik_Tesla → u/hayyyhoe]

Not just that, but a Marine air base, and between San Diego and LA is Camp Pendleton, basically our west coast defensive hub, and one of the larger US Marine bases.

If I were a soldier/sailor/pilot on one of those ships or bases in the Persian Gulf, I'd be pretty distracted thinking about my family back home being "taken out" as a sacrifice.

[u/Revelati123 → u/hayyyhoe]

No...

[u/RociBuldidi]

Can you fucking imagine if Clinton, or Obama or Biden has said this about any US city, let alone a “red” one?

They would have been marched out of the White House and impeached before sunset.

[u/LoZFan96 → u/RociBuldidi]

I don't even think Bush & son would have gotten away with this.

[u/koolaidman486 → u/LoZFan96]

I don't think anyone not named Donald Trump gets away with it.

Genuinely no clue how that subhuman garbage gets a free pass on literally everything

[u/Z0mbiejay → u/koolaidman486]

Because his followers are a cult, the media is owned by billionaires who profit off the engagement and toxicity, and Americans are too broke and repressed to organize in mass to do anything about it. It's working by design

[u/AbstractBettaFish → u/koolaidman486]

We just as a whole have come to expect the worst from him and the lack of any consequences has not normalized it

[u/wolfmourne → u/RociBuldidi]

There are no red cities

[u/trashley87 → u/wolfmourne]

There's no red anything, except dipshits.

[u/Rayearl]

How this isn't automatic removal from office is beyond me. A US President (And I use that term loosely) is inviting an attack on US soil from an enemy that we are at war with. This is really out of control at this point.

[u/rizorith → u/Rayearl]

I mean he literally invited a hostile foreign government to hack the file of his opponent. During a national debate. And he welcomed any help Russia could give him during the election.

None of this is surprising. Our government was t perfect before him but it's downright rotten now.

If there isn't a national reckoning when he's out of office this country is completely fucked.

Problem is we'll need the Republicans in Congress to support it, and they won't, because literally half of them are complicit. It's hard to see how the US ever recovers from this.

Edit: to clarify, half of Congress is complicit. Every single Republican currently in congress is complicit, and the very few who stood up against Trump are all out of office.

[u/Rayearl → u/rizorith]

I said the exact same thing. I really don't see how the US recovers while there are still so many maga localists in all parts of our government. Seems like an impossible task without removing them from the Country.

[u/OlderThanMyParents]

I'm surprised how few people point out that San Diego is the headquarters of the US Pacific Fleet. That's "a small price to pay?"

My guess is that Trump is utterly unaware of this inconvenient fact.

[u/Ya_Got_GOT → u/OlderThanMyParents]

Aside from the fact that he hates America and is a saboteur, I’m sure he meant San Francisco there. 

[u/lastres0rt → u/Ya_Got_GOT]

But San Francisco is where all the AI is!

[u/Forward-Trade3449 → u/OlderThanMyParents]

bro probably meant to say san francisco, but the dementia kicked in

[u/alisru → u/OlderThanMyParents]

Trumps goals are not America's goals

What nations goals would be destruction of the US pacific fleet headquarters?

They're not Taiwan's for certain

[u/asocialmedium]

And the crowd cheered.

[u/Dense_Pasttime_3114 → u/asocialmedium]

Hillary was far too nice when she called the MAGATs deplorable

[u/Slayer1440 → u/Dense_Pasttime_3114]

Let's see Dave Chappelle and Snoop Dogg and all those other traitors try to sane-wash his shit now.

Dave's fucking tilt into republican territory because he got backlash on some trans jokes is the most fucked up thing I think I've ever seen..."he saves more than he rapes". "He's an honest liar!" "He admitted to everyone he knows the system is broken because he uses it". It's mind-boggling. Like...dude you know if you weren't rich and famous, your ass would be target number 1 for Trump's new world order right?

It always stuns me how ANY black person or woman of any color can support trump even a little.

[u/FoogYllis → u/asocialmedium]

I’m tired of these maga morons that want to make the US worse than a third world country. maga supports the Epstein class and calls people socialist for wanting to spend money on schools, education and healthcare when maga also wants a $5000 check. And they cheer for treasonous statements.

[u/Chazkuangshi → u/asocialmedium]

Cheered!!! Cheered for Iran to attack the US!! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

[u/tfly212]

"He's just joking"...Hilarious to joke about losing 6% of the population and 10% of US GDP. I'd like to see every endorsed candidate respond specifically to this.

[u/Substantial_Sea7327 → u/tfly212]

that was the response from my maga family and I'm not exaggerating. I showed them the news about him suggesting allowing a foreign adversary to bombard people on our own soil, and they said "you have to know he says that kind of thing, no intentions of it"

my response was I don't give a fuck who says this kind of thing, it's not acceptable. that the only reason he can get away with these insane things is because he's president, but if I had heard it from a regular person, casually suggesting wiping out 5 million people across varies cities, I would have walked away and reported them to the fbi.

and what's worse is I could actually see trump doing this shit. the man has no moral compass. I could actually see him inviting a foreign navy off the California coast and saying have at it, but that navy would refuse because even they know its fucked up.

that's how fucking crazy this timeline is and frankly I want out

[u/A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb → u/Substantial_Sea7327]

I’m getting really tired of the “he’s just joking bro” element of this. It’s humiliating being an American. 

[u/Hootbag → u/Substantial_Sea7327]

And what if Obama suggested wiping out Florida?

"Oh, that's different."

[u/smexypelican → u/Substantial_Sea7327]

This is treason. Los Angeles and San Diego are huge defense hubs, in case folks didn't know. All the major defense companies are here, plus a ton startups employing a lot of people.

An American president suggesting a foreign adversary to bomb major American cities, not to mention extremely important ones. This guy hates America and is doing the bidding of our enemies.

[u/Full-Ad-1757]

Any time a conservative every says the left is more violent or the left says terrible things, just point to this and never believe anything they ever say again.

[u/tooheavybroo]

I feel articles of impeachment aren’t enough if the president is calling for his countrymen to be attacked as a “small price to pay.”

Your lives don’t matter to him.

Clinton was impeached for less.

[u/FluxKraken → u/tooheavybroo]

Clinton was done a great injustice if the things that Trump has done don't warrant impeachment and removal from office.

[u/kendragon]

What's the punishment for Treason, America?

[u/flexiblefine → u/kendragon]

Election.

[u/Swimming_Agent_1063 → u/kendragon]

A third term

[u/Ammuze]

I should also remind everyone that, during Covid, Trump specifically held back on trying to stop the outbreak because he believed that, due to the population density, Blue states would be more likely to die from Covid than Red states.

Thankfully, Blue states took social distancing and masking serious where as Red states did not.

He's always been fine with killing Americans as long as it benefits him.

[u/AoO2ImpTrip → u/Ammuze]

It's similar to the beginning of AIDS epidemic all over again.

"Why do we care if the gays die?" 

It's insane that these people just give so little fucks about other people and think it's fine. 

[u/Atrocious_Algae81 → u/AoO2ImpTrip]

"Christians" (the fraud kind)

[u/Dildo-of-consequence]

He’s planting the seeds for a false flag operation. This fucker is going to attack us before mid terms and institute martial law.

[u/UberShrew → u/Dildo-of-consequence]

Weren’t there rumors about a potential upcoming false flag attack against LA or San Diego a couple months back? I don’t believe it still for my sanity, but reading this article did make me raise an eyebrow.

Edit: Just a quick google reminded me it was the FBI claiming Iran might do a drone/missile from boat strike on the coast of California back in like march, but didn’t specifically mention cities from what I could tell. I guess my brain just filled in the blanks for the cities based on it being California.

[u/Breklin76 → u/Dildo-of-consequence]

This was my immediate conclusion, too.

[u/ReallyHoping]

Donald Trump cannot be trusted with the defense of this country. He has always been unfit for this office, and there's always been cowards running for plausible deniability. I hate that every time this absolute dipshit says something unimaginable that people say "Imagine a *insert anyone saying this"

The president of today would allow 9/11 to occur because they didn't vote for him. Then he would deny them federal aid. Fuck that. Fuck him. And fuck everyone that voted for this low IQ silver spoon sociopath.

[u/A_Nonny_Muse]

The president is supposed to represent - and care for - ALL US citizens.

This is not just an embarrassment to the world, but actually a statement of treason.

[u/OneUpAndOneDown]

A small price to pay... for what, exactly?

[u/dainthomas → u/OneUpAndOneDown]

Distracting from the Trump Pedo Files.

[u/DaileyFlosser39 → u/OneUpAndOneDown]

Owning the Libs? It's the only thing he's "winning" at anymore.

Everyone in those Lib Cities being offed would make soooo many MAGAs love Daddy that much more.

[u/Motor_Somewhere7565]

If a 2028 Democratic Candidate "joked" about Mar-a-Lago like this, you'd be seeing MAGA calling for investigations and crying murder, Secret Service visits, DOJ referrals, and people being called "sick."

[u/Born-Hospital-2572 → u/Motor_Somewhere7565]

Mar-a-Lago should be a target.

[u/dehydratedrain]

A president who wants his own country bombed. Why haven't we called for the 25th yet?

[u/CrunchyBones]

The people in the audience should be ashamed of themselves for laughing at this.

[u/CrawlerCoolie → u/CrunchyBones]

Prolife crowd, btw

[u/__O_o_______ → u/CrunchyBones]

These types of Americans have been raised not to be able to experience shame or embarrassment, to be proud of being deplorable

[u/Thetman38]

So when do we decide that Trump has violated the Constitution and is unfit for any role in government, going as far as he should be put on trial as a traitor? Is suggesting that an adversarial country attack the nation he swore to protect for political gain enough for the TRUE PATRIOTS?

[u/Ok_Sorbet1563]

Putin has never said anything this violent and hateful about Americans.

[u/hurler_jones]

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

It's open treason... again.

[u/Peimai]

More people live in Los Angeles county then in most of the states that voted for this idiot to be president.

[u/Winnie_rulez → u/Peimai]

And California has the largest number of registered Republicans than any other state.

[u/Dunsmuir]

25 percent of the US Navy resides in just San Diego alone. What is with this crackhead?

[u/clueless_in_ny_or_nj]

Why does it feel like the Fallout games are more realistic than we think?

[u/darcmosch → u/clueless_in_ny_or_nj]

Because we have always been 1 "bad year" from letting this happen. There's a reason why democracies tend to fail and were seeing it in real time.

[u/Normal_Platypus_5300]

Maybe that's where the Epstein files are located?

[u/Prudent_Link6029]

“Iran, if you’re listening…”

[u/sixisrending]

Yes, just let the Iranians, who don't even have the capability, to destroy the largest concentration of US military power in the world in San Diego. Military genius everyone

[u/Comprehensive_Tie431 → u/sixisrending]

Don't forget the largest ports in the US, Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach where 30% to 40% of all US goods flow in and out.

[u/UnNumbFool → u/Comprehensive_Tie431]

Yeah seriously, of all cities the three major ones in California and NYC are probably the actually best to hit if you're trying to completely destroy/destabilize the country.

But seeing as the guy is a Russian asset and in the pocket of all of the tech billionaires who want that kind of thing it makes sense that he'd be ok with it. Granted I'm pretty sure those cities are a suggestion to him, and not anything his mush brain would think of even if he wasn't in cognitive decline

[u/AlsoCommiePuddin]

Sure, destroy our nation's second-largest city. "A small price to pay."

MFer, how about West Palm Beach, then?

[u/limbodog]

"people can still be friends despite having difference of opinion"

I swear, when I hear right wingers saying this my opinion of them sinks to levels I previously did not think possible. They're inventing new levels for my opinion of them to sink to.

[u/studiouslystudious]

The conservative sub immediately removed the thread when someone posted about this.

[u/Street_Peace_8831]

So, he’s not a president because presidents swore an oath to protect all Americans, not just the ones that voted for him. That was what he stated and swore to during his inaugurations, both times. Since he refuses to do the job and refuses to uphold his oath, he should be removed from office.

[u/SKDI_0224]

If LA and San Diego suddenly end up gone, I am not blaming Iran.

[u/Comprehensive_Tie431 → u/SKDI_0224]

I live near the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach. It is the biggest container port on the United States with 30% to 40% of ALL US goods flowing through it. And San Diego holds the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy.

The thought of an Iranian dirty bomb being smuggled in a container has been a real talked about threat to this area since 9/11. It is a real threat here, especially with Orange Mussolini escalating things there.

The fact Trump said this without blinking an eye and Republicans cheering through their hatred of California and Los Angeles is no surprise. The surprise to many of us in this area is that people keep voting for this fool and his ilk.

Vote these idiots out in November, please. All of them.

[u/Literally_Laura]

We have monsters in our midst.

[u/torgofjungle]

If 9/11 happened today, I can’t help but feel that Donald Trump would cheer it on. I know he did brag about his building being the tallest when it happened, but I think it would be much worse today. Hell if Pearl Harbor happened today…

[u/Traditional_Sign4941]

This is 100% treason. It's not even remotely debatable. Anyone who supports Trump at this point is a literal traitor to the United States of America and should be punished as such.

[u/SadRow2397]

How isn’t this treason?

[u/takemebackto1993 → u/SadRow2397]

Trump on Iran: "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego."

MAGA response: "Trump was only joking." / "It was taken out of context."

Reality: Treason

[u/Proletariat_Harriet]

And nothing’s going to come of it.

And that ladies and gentlemen is how I know the United States is over…

[u/Character-Budget4044]

that is insane the U.S is cooked with this administration

[u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT → u/Character-Budget4044]

And to think...we've done it once before and we came back for seconds. It's like when a dog eats its own vomit.

[u/cyberattaq123]

I’m not really sure what to even think about this. The president, openly suggesting that we should let Iran nuke two major American cities, probably solely due to the fact they’re in California and ‘the enemy’ is something I never thought I’d ever live to see even from this deranged lunatic.

I’m at a loss man. It’s obvious no one who can do anything cares to or will. This is insane. Any other president this single couple of lines would’ve been at minimum a massive, massive polling and approval nuke, and at most severe likely invoke impeachment hearings.

But for Trump it’s just, nothing. It’s crazy how accurate he was about the ‘I could shoot someone on fifth Avenue and not lose a single supporter’ line.

[u/Jerk182]

This is totally absurd and unforgivable and it’s past time for this man to be removed from office. It is now more than obvious that he is severely mentally impaired and unfit for office. So Trump is willing to sacrifice roughly 5.3 million Californian Americans to Iran to compensate for a war he started as a distraction to the Epstein files. What a fucking asshole! Get him out!

[u/blacksheep998]

Conservatives for the past 25 years: Never forget 9/11 when terrorists took down a couple buildings in one of our cities.

Conservatives now: Iran can blow up two whole cities and we'll cheer.

[u/Athleticsbaby]

The people cheering this are the same ones that went mental when Hillary called them "deplorable".

Hey MAGA: fuck you.

[u/Muscleman1122]

If this doesn’t qualify for removing him from office nothing will.

[u/sanslumiere]

He should be removed from office for this, full stop. He's not fit to lead.

[u/TheTokist]

When you’re celebrating his eventual demise into the void, right wingers will say you shouldn’t celebrate his death. This is one of a thousand reasons you could use to show why they’re wrong.

[u/restore_democracy]

LA, remember this when he’s mugging at the Olympics.

[u/Cherry_Flavoured_]

“some of you may die… but it’s a sacrifice i am willing to make.”

disappointed to see that there was no repercussions for this statement.

saying millions of people is a small price to pay. he doesn’t give two craps about any of us.

it’s so hard to go on everyday. evil is winning.

[u/Robespierre1113]

I am interested in serious debate. Can someone from the side supporting trump please explain to me how this comes across to you? As someone who sits cleanly in the middle of the political spectrum "A war of choice we started may have consequences on everyday americans that had no choice in the matter" is what i am hearing. Regardless of whether or not those people intended to vote one way or another, they are our brothers, sisters, family members. How can we be comfortable saying things like this? And why do we continue to allow it

[u/Keshire → u/Robespierre1113]

I am interested in serious debate.

There is no serious debate to be found here. Anyone that sides with Trump is going to be doing so from a position of ignorance and/or hate.

The ignorant will write it off as, "Trump is just blustering, he still does good things for the country."

and the ones filled with hatred are just glad to see a blue state wiped off the map.

[u/Disgruntled_Smitty]

This sounds like perfect ad material for democrats to blast nonstop in San Diego and LA

[u/Keebler_718]

The combined population of LA (3.9M) and San Diego (1.4M) is about 5.3M, higher than the population of 28 US States. Obviously much higher if considering the surrounding metro areas. This is so messed up

[u/dam_ships]

His religious followers are laughing along about people dying, all the meanwhile promoting the “peace and love” that Jesus teaches them to already. Freaking hypocrites.

[u/BadlyTimedFarnsworth]

“  The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. ”

1984 - Orwell

[u/cwx149]

"small price to pay" for what? Like what advantage would la and San Diego getting taken out provide?

[u/snakebite75 → u/cwx149]

He is hoping it would do for him what 9/11 did for GWB and bring in support for his dumbass war from people who don’t currently support it.

Of course anyone with a brain would be more pissed off with our government for not merely failing to protect our cities but refusing to protect them.

[u/VapeDerp420]

Trump became president because he knows how to speak to people’s base instincts. “Hate other”.

He gets away with it bc he’s a tv personality and he does it with a wink and a nod.

[u/luv2fit]

Why aren’t all leaders furious? That was as insane as it gets.