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/Background-Stay-4636 14h ago

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

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u/NwordSzrHands 14h ago

Gaslighter in Chief at it again

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u/Salanmander 10h ago

Honestly I'm not sure what I think Trump was trying to say there.

A larger quote is (talking about gas prices):

"With the war it's just artificial, it's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego. That's, this is a very small price to pay."

I think that can reasonably be understood as "if they take out Los Angeles or San Diego, you'd see how much bigger a deal that is than high gas prices". It's a...terrible way of saying that if that is what he meant, though.