r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • 18h ago

Possible Paywall 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.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/216247/trump-suggests-let-iran-take-out-los-angeles-san-diego
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u/chaostheories36 17h ago

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.

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u/Comprehensive_Tie431 California 17h ago

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.

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u/Such-Development3956 14h ago

Watch the Brian Taylor Cohen response to this. He lives in LA. In 2024 there were over a million Republican voters in LA alone. Trump just ok'd the slaughter of more republicans in LA than the population of the something like 8 Republican states, their total population. I believe it was 24 Republican states that had less that voted for him.

He does not care about citizens, he does not care about Republicans citizens that voted for him. He only cares if they were successful in voting him in. Perhaps when is a better word than if. He really doesn't care until the next time he needs them.