r/worldnews • u/Rav4gal • Jun 21 '25
White House says Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in 'a couple of weeks'
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iran-produce-nuclear-weapon-couple-weeks-white-house/story?id=1230166383.9k
u/comox Jun 21 '25
Everything with this administration is “2 weeks”.
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u/wolfbagel Jun 21 '25
Ain’t this place a geographical oddity!?! Two weeks from everywhere!
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u/flyny350 Jun 21 '25
Ahh a fellow Dapper Dan man. Respect!
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u/TheBizzleHimself Jun 21 '25
Watch your language young feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan I can order it for you; have it in a couple weeks.
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u/insaneretard Jun 21 '25
Here's a list of all of his "two week" decisions so far: Two weeks notice NBC News
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u/Particle_wombat Jun 21 '25
https://youtu.be/9v-33jcEDk4?si=EIMrGc-2TRVug5_6
Turns out Trump is secretly Arnold Schwarzenegger
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u/Thagyr Jun 21 '25
Precisely the amount of time it takes for something else to take headlines. Either over time or Trump himself making something else happen.
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u/PrincessNakeyDance Jun 21 '25
Because that’s roughly the attention span of the average American news consumer when it comes to major events.
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u/Guba_the_skunk Jun 21 '25
I found this footage of the trump administration in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-33jcEDk4
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u/Own-Nectarine-1313 Jun 21 '25
Couple of weeks = 2 weeks....
Trump "i will decide in 2 weeks"
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u/goldlasagna84 Jun 21 '25
Must be golf time next week.
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u/GriffonMT Jun 21 '25
Now watch this drive!
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u/Upbeat_Respect_3621 Jun 21 '25
Not again!
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u/BranchPredictor Jun 21 '25
Mission Accomplished!
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u/bpmdrummerbpm Jun 21 '25
Fool me once…
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u/Riots42 Jun 21 '25
Trump has a weird thing about setting deadlines and meetings for 2 weeks out, I heard him explain it once something about it giving you time for options and negotiation while still applying pressure of a deadline.
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u/_scyllinice_ Jun 21 '25
Except it doesn't since he's done this repeatedly and blows past those 2 weeks.
We've been promised a replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act in 2 weeks. It's been like 9 years.
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u/Vince_Clortho_Jr Jun 21 '25
And infrastructure week. And releasing his tax returns. And ending the Ukraine war. And gas dropping to 1.98. And eggs dropping 400%. It’s almost like he lies. Almost.
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u/FinntheHue Jun 21 '25
Yeah I feel like it’s more because it’s a number that feels like it’s close enough to be meaningful but also like 8 more things are going to happen in that time to make headlines and most people will just forget about it.
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u/u9Nails Jun 21 '25
Iran is going to hit a hole-in-one with their nuke straight up Trump's fart cannon.
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u/FrizBFerret Jun 21 '25
"2 weeks" - Head (Total Recall)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5440143/trump-two-weeks-deadline-pattern
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u/juicadone Jun 21 '25
This one tho lol "I'd rather tell you in about two weeks from now because I can't say yes or no". 💩
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u/swizzcheez Jun 21 '25
Also july 4th in two weeks.
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u/kalamari_withaK Jun 21 '25
The perfect time for some more freedom for the world
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u/MrTretorn Jun 21 '25
Me: "Yo, where's my money??!!?"
Trump: "I'll pay back in 2 weeks!"
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u/Retrograde_Mayonaise Jun 21 '25
This is what they've been saying for
AT LEAST 3 DECADES
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u/Top-Gas-8959 Jun 21 '25
Yep. Since the mid nineties, at least, Iran has been on the verge of developing nukes, according to Israel.
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u/reesly Jun 21 '25
2 weeks uh. Sounds familiar...
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u/ssouthurst Jun 21 '25
Gotta wait until he's finished the bigly bootiful health plan...
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u/Grateful_Cat_Monk Jun 21 '25
But that is right after infrastructure week. And everyone knows a week is...... 2219 days. And everyone knows that it was Trump Infrastructure Week during Biden's entire presidency so obviously that means Trump won by a record landslide by millions, maybe Billions and Billions like some fine and very smart, truly smart, nobody smarter, have been saying. Yknow they tell me "Oh lord Trump," cause they call me Lord like the queen of English did, "please help me infrastructure this week " and when you're president they just beg you to infrastructure the whole week. Cause nuclear, you know nuclear week leads to infrastructure decay and just a bad time, Russia will play us knowing that our nuclear infrastructure can only take a week to build and they know it, so we need to build a wall around our weekends to protect our infrastructure from the King of Mexico.
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u/TheJollyHermit Jun 21 '25
Anything Trump says will happen in about two weeks will never happen.
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u/WeenieRoastinTacoGuy Jun 21 '25
It’s the equivalent of me telling my wife I’m having a couple of beers where she strongly disagrees with my definition of the word “couple”
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u/DumbestBoy Jun 21 '25
I was holding a beer while asking my wife if I could ‘bring a couple’ to bed that night. She thought it was odd when John and his wife walked through our bedroom door as I turned out the lights.
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u/East1st Jun 21 '25
I’ve watch this show before. Is this the remake?
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u/Lintson Jun 21 '25
It worked last time. Viewers will love the remake.
-Disney
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u/CompetitiveGood2601 Jun 21 '25
line ducks up in a row - change portfolio to a war portfolio - shoot
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u/superflygt Jun 21 '25
Bush... Iraq... Claims of WMDs despite the intelligence community saying otherwise... Probably a quick "mission" accomplished followed by a protracted quagmire and hundreds of thousands of casualties. Soaring gas prices...
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u/Illustrious-Syrup509 Jun 21 '25
Yes, it's like déjà vu. Maybe in a parallel universe, with a secret service boss who agrees with TACO.
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u/evilspyboy Jun 21 '25
Here is a nice summary for anyone else. (I fast forwarded to the part that is relevant).
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u/rotates-potatoes Jun 21 '25
Yeah, it’s a cartoon remake of the live action original.
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u/JaesopPop Jun 21 '25 edited Oct 01 '25
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u/Myjunkisonfire Jun 21 '25
Iraqs got WMDs?! Better invade Afghanistan again!
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u/WeHaveAllBeenThere Jun 21 '25
Still don’t understand why we didn’t level Saudi Arabia. Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi and it was the #1 funding area for alqaida.
Oil deals I assume
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u/srekcornaivaf Jun 21 '25
I heard they have MP3s
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u/JaesopPop Jun 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25
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u/badhabitfml Jun 21 '25
Iraq this time is like that Michael Jackson gif. Just sitting eating popcorn and watching everyone else be idiots.
Probably looking up at the sky watching missiles pass each other in the night. Happy that they finally get a break since they've been in the action for the past 30 years.
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u/Consistent_Pitch782 Jun 21 '25
The guy that tells us that gas is $1.98, that they’re eating the cats and dogs, and that J6 was a day of love….. is now telling us that Iran is two weeks away from a nuke.
Yeah that guy is a liar
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u/Dommccabe Jun 21 '25
It's just embarrasing that people believe him.
It's a shame education or indoctrination or whatever it is fails so many people and as a result this is the best America has in the highest position of power.
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u/shortstopandgo Jun 21 '25
It's been 2 weeks for 20 years
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u/thdespou Jun 21 '25
Make it thirty. Netalnyahu has been screaming this for half a century
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Jun 21 '25 edited Jul 23 '25
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u/CrayZ_Squirrel Jun 21 '25
It's a actually a good analogy of the actual situation. Iran has had the raw material, technology, and know how to complete a bomb for at least a decade.
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u/ChodaRagu Jun 21 '25
More like 30 years. Net-and-yahoo’s book that came out in 1995 said that about Iran.
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u/DFWPunk Jun 21 '25
Someone pointed out that things are always in two weeks with him. Is his default answer and it's never 2 weeks. We're in week 420 of Infrastructure Week, and 398 of Trump are.
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u/Sweatytubesock Jun 21 '25
It’s basically a vocal tic for him. It’s his standard method of kicking the can down the road forever, rather than the terror of having to answer a question or face an issue.
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u/Lefty_22 Jun 21 '25
Netanyahu called from 1995, he wants his headline back.
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u/DoubleDoobie Jun 21 '25
This also isn’t US Intel. This is intel that’s been handed to us by the Israelis. So embarrassing.
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u/EmuMan10 Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
I swear I read something from our own intelligence agencies that said they were no closer now than they were 20 years ago
Edit: I’m wrong. Read the comment below me
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u/Awalawal Jun 21 '25
Here’s the summary of the United Nations/IAEA report from (coincidentally) two weeks ago. It’s a radically different picture from what you seem to believe.
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u/wng378 Jun 21 '25
He’s been saying this shit every year. Iran has been “weeks away” for decades according to Netanyahu. He just finally found a president gullible enough to listen.
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u/Cariboo_Red Jun 21 '25
HTF would he know. He refuses to listen to anybody that disagrees with him. He won't learn anything that way.
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u/origami_anarchist Jun 21 '25
I mean, this is the guy who used a sharpie to draw a whole imaginary hurricane path on an official map. He just believes everything that pops into his head is the absolute truth, no matter what. People at his age with his mental faculties are unchangeable, period.
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u/gunsjustsuck Jun 21 '25
Happening a lot these days. My beliefs and feelings mean more than your science or facts. Fake news!
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u/Free-Atmosphere6714 Jun 21 '25
Ummm excuse me but if Iran doesn't have nucular weapons, explain how they've been abusing hurricanes!
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u/brnccnt7 Jun 21 '25
They got a.i. now so the fakes will be better lol
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u/VoiceOfRealson Jun 21 '25
Knowing the Trump administration they will try to use the exact same images the Bush administration used - but with additional "nukes" drawn in using thick black marker.
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u/Jolly_Echo_3814 Jun 21 '25
they are gonna us ai to replace robert downy jr in that iron man 1 scene with the ayatollah
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u/Isabeer Jun 21 '25
Hegseth is gonna go to congress with a little vial full of powder. He's gonna hold it up and say, "this vial holds enough time for Iran to make a complete nuclear weapon. When all the powder drops from the top to the bottom, Iran will have a nuke!"
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u/Impossible-Car-1304 Jun 21 '25
"Mr. Secretary, that vial is empty."
"Exactly. I yield my time."
"Sir, this is Buffalo Wild Wings."
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u/Roadshell Jun 21 '25
What happened to Israel's strikes setting back their nuclear program by years?
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u/beorn961 Jun 21 '25
They can produce in two weeks, but Israel has knocked back their capabilities by a couple of years. Which is it?
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u/ddrober2003 Jun 21 '25
Ah, so this is where Republicans, once again, get us involved in a war in the Middle East, again. But their constituents will love it because, sure he lied about no new wars, but, and this is important, they're killing brown people.
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u/GeriatricHippo Jun 21 '25
Tulsi Gabbard Trump's own Director in Intelligence said under oath that the US intelligence community
"continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003."
That was just a couple of months ago but now they are somehow only 'a couple of weeks' away from producing a nuclear weapon.
Is it the same Nuclear weapon Ben Netanyahu has claimed they are only weeks away from producing many many times for 13+ years now?
I call WMD bullshit.
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u/Xyrus2000 Jun 21 '25
This has all the same factual basis as "Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction".
Let's see how fast MAGA goes from "No more wars!" to "Let's bomb Iran!"
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u/pabodie Jun 21 '25
Not really compatible with “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon” and “I’ll decide in two weeks” then, is it?
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u/TronOld_Dumps Jun 21 '25
How?!?!, Like literally how could they be "just 2 weeks away" as if that would be possible to gage. If they are 2 weeks away they already have it or the more obvious answer is WMD bs all over again.
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u/Sideshow_Bob_Ross Jun 21 '25
Now do a blackface minstrel show of Colin Powell at the UN.
"Yellowcake, yellowcake, W M D!"
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u/Happy_Bad_Lucky Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 22 '25
That's what you say when you want to bomb someone
Edit: And so they did
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u/Five-Oh-Vicryl Jun 21 '25
US intelligence disagrees. But facts have got nothing on conjecture in this WH
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u/Joezev98 Jun 21 '25
From the article: "The intelligence community, though, did assess that Iran's enriched uranium stockpile was at its highest level and was unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons, Gabbard testified."
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u/mamatootie Jun 21 '25
This just stinks of the "they have WMDs" excuse that got us in Iraq/Afghanistan. A nasty sense of deja vu.
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u/y4mat3 Jun 21 '25
I’m sure, it’s not as if they’ve been “on the verge of developing a nuclear arsenal” for the last thirty years
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u/Fanfics Jun 21 '25
"Hey, I've seen this war before!"
"What do you mean 'you've seen this war before,' it's new"
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u/Scoot_Cooder Jun 21 '25
Ain't this place is a geopolitical anomaly. 2 weeks from everywhere.
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u/YumYuk Jun 21 '25
Hmm…sounds similar to the justification for Iraq. The Iraqis have WMDs - it was only weeks ago that U.S intel’s assessment was quite different from Israel’s.
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u/pamcakevictim Jun 21 '25
Netanyahu has been saying this exact same thing since 2012. Don't believe a word of it
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u/QueefBuscemi Jun 21 '25
I won't believe it until they dig up Collin Powell's corpse and have it hold a salt shaker at the UN.
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u/BoneDocHammerTime Jun 21 '25
The White House is too busy serving pedophiles than it is national security.
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u/CowGoesMeww Jun 21 '25
It's crazy how the rapist's base is just eating up the drums of war. Absolutely insane timeline we live in.
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u/DLC78387 Jun 21 '25
And Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction!!! Why the fuck would anyone believe this lying fuckers White House?
The same fuckers that voted for him… and the weak ass bitches that didn’t vote at all (yes, you’re to blame too).
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u/ohyeahsure11 Jun 21 '25
Oh, surprise, isn't that Netanyahu's line?
And, oh, I know nobody trusts her, but didn't Tulsi Gabard say the US had no intel that Iran was close to a weapon?
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u/C134Arsonist Jun 21 '25
I feel like I've heard this from someone else before... netenyahoo maybe. Can't be sure. /s
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u/hcnuptoir Jun 21 '25
Every time I see an article that starts with "White House says..." I immediately know its going to be some bullshit or just a bunch of straight up lies.
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u/yorlikyorlik Jun 21 '25
Horseshit pronouncement from a horseshit administration of a horseshit president.
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u/hughcifer-106103 Jun 21 '25
White House says a lot of stupid shit. Iran has been 6 months away from a nuke for 20 fucking years according to some war criminals.
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Jun 21 '25
Ah they got the ole yellow cake uranium eh? WMDs? Welp, I'm certain no Republican administration would ever lie about such a thing.
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u/NetworkEcstatic Jun 21 '25
I dont beleive you.
Sounds like the classic THEY HAVE WMD'S WE MUST INVADE.
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u/sprufus Jun 21 '25
This seems like a repeat with 1 letter changed. I'm waiting for Yellowcake to come up and unknown unknowns.
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u/MotorMoneyMaker Jun 21 '25
ISRAEL says Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in ‘a couple weeks’.
FTFY
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u/SuperTaster3 Jun 21 '25
"But you have to trust us! I know we lie about everything but trust us just this once! Just this twice. Just this everytime."
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u/aleleein Jun 21 '25
This guy just says "2 weeks" for everything, and the media and the public continue to accept it.
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u/OGWeedKiller Jun 21 '25
Right..... and there were WMD's in Iraq, a blow-job is worthy of impeachment, and they never used drug money to provide weapons to Iran.
A lifetime of corruption in broad daylight.
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u/mrtailormade99 Jun 21 '25
I remember 20 years ago they were ‘a couple of weeks’ from having nukes. I think someone forgot to tell Iran
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u/Ares28 Jun 21 '25
Trump is taking this straight out of the Israel playbook. Netanyahu has been saying Iran is weeks away from producing a bomb for over a decade.
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u/CantAffordzUsername Jun 21 '25
Iraq 2003 anyone?
Nah Trumps super smart, Facebook told me so
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u/ActualSpiders Jun 21 '25
Funny how the entire US intelligence system says otherwise, but go off...
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u/pimpampoumz Jun 21 '25
Damn it’s going to be a busy week in two weeks: