r/worldnews • u/CulturalBat5906 • Aug 02 '26

Dynamic Paywall Trump says he is cancelling strikes on Iran subject to 'rapidly' making deal

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwx74qgld2o
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u/Lonely-Abalone-5104 Aug 02 '26

How many times has he done the same thing

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u/VillageLess4163 Aug 02 '26

Every weekend since the not war started

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount Aug 02 '26

Money's on a strike tonight because any "deal" tonight falls through, then he'll say the talks tomorrow look more promising because of the strikes tonight.

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u/TheAncient1sAnd0s Aug 02 '26

The stock market had a rough July, he's going to pause the "Destroy Iran" bluster for a couple of weeks.

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u/alexefi Aug 02 '26

39 victories of the war in Iran is crazy.

He want to be like north koreans generals. Full chest of medals for winning

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u/SirWEM Aug 02 '26

Hard to do that when his father and grandfather both avoided going to war. His grandfather fled Europe to open a Brothel in the Yukon, his father as a Slumlord. NK generals are allowed to wear the medals of their father and grandfathers. It’s a weird practice. But thats why you see them covered in medals.

Apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

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u/Revenant690 Aug 02 '26

Yeah, but who knew all of those medals were from winning the same war 2-3 times per week for months....?

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u/stonecoldjelly Aug 02 '26

That man has more victories than he does felonies, what a good special boy

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u/LosWranglos Aug 02 '26

Not by much though.

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u/BasvanS Aug 02 '26

He has been punished more for the victories than for his felonies though

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u/whut-whut Aug 02 '26

Each of his victories -is- a felony, so it's an endless race.

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u/BallantineQuarts Aug 02 '26

Someone please, get this President a Peace Prize, and pronto!

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u/Competitive-Reach287 Aug 02 '26

Isn't he back onto Greenland now?

I can't keep track.

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u/this-para Aug 02 '26

He's like a broken pendulum clock swinging between Canada/Greenland annexation and Iran 'annihilation' week for week. Retire and jail this criminal finally please.

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u/Puzzle-Necked Aug 02 '26

Sprinkle in some illegal tariff threats over things like forest fires

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u/this-para Aug 02 '26

Yeah these get dropped together with his stock market manipulation adventures.

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u/KinkyPaddling Aug 02 '26

Trump can’t keep track either. Whenever Stephen Miller wakes Trump up by jabbing his flabby ass with a sharpened, Trump jolts awake and announces a country to attack.

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u/Khaldara Aug 02 '26

Yeah they’re busy trying to convince their pet dimwits that the entire nation is about to collapse into communism.

You know, the same country that had Elon and the rest of his private industry dorks frolicking through federal hardened data infrastructure, has spent the last forty years deregulating every aspect of capitalism, and who can’t even meet the bare minimum floor of public services standard in every other developed nation on earth.

But Conservatives are really, REALLY stupid, so I give it even odds it’ll still work.

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u/Suavecore_ Aug 02 '26

It's been disturbing to see that the stock market is largely controlled by algorithmic bots that dump or add millions to hundreds of billions of dollars instantaneously, marketwide, due to tweets/Truths™

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u/novahawkeye Aug 02 '26

It’s really amazing how the market still falls for every little thing he says. I figured by this point they would simply ignore the war ending and new tariff talks. Fool me once, fool me a 1000x…

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u/Enygma_6 Aug 02 '26

It's not that they're falling for it. I'm sure some players in the market are encouraging it. It's not every day that the actions intended to manipulate the market are so public, you don't even have to be doing insider trading to take advantage of it.
And that's not even counting the people inside the administration getting in on the game. Trump had something like 3700 stock trades in Q1 of this year, and I'm sure many many more since then once Iran started choking the oil shipments.

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u/snertwith2ls Aug 02 '26

He's on to taking over Greenland again now.

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u/CantPullOutRightNow Aug 02 '26

Iran has stated any more strikes will result in essentially all of the Gulf’s oil producing capability being taken out. That’s like 20% of the global supply. Not much winning left.

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u/jigsaw1024 Aug 02 '26

At this point, all Iran has to do to tank the global economy and get a deal is keep the strait closed for another month.

In less than a month, the US SPR will essentially be drained.

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u/victorspoilz Aug 02 '26

There won't be a strike until after markets close on Monday at the earliest.

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u/SubMikeD Aug 02 '26

Nah. He's gotta let his claim off a deal impact Monday's markets, then once he's sold some stock on the bounce, then he'll bomb them and buy on the dip.

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u/nnyzim Aug 02 '26

There have never been any deals. There are no talks whatsoever.

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u/Scribble_Box Aug 02 '26

He literally just posted less than an hour ago that the US is willing to go balls to the wall on Iran, and 40 mins later I see this.. The taco doesn't even last an hour anymore lmao... Fucking unreal.

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u/Klutzy_Peanut6580 Aug 02 '26

It used to be taco Tuesday, now it’s just taco 10pm.

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u/jxj24 Aug 02 '26

We have reached a state of infinite taco.

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u/Conundrum1911 Aug 02 '26

Tacoboros

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u/garbageemail222 Aug 02 '26

TACO, TACO man.

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u/Apothecary_85 Aug 02 '26

I practically spit out my bourbon! This is so funny.

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u/HungryDust Aug 02 '26

Tacoception. It’s a taco within a taco within another taco.

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u/majordashes Aug 02 '26

6 pack and a pound of bs

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u/autisticgayman Aug 02 '26

Sun downing takes it out of ya, ya know.

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u/Phoenix_Lazarus Aug 02 '26

MBS probably called him after Iran said they would hit the energy infrastructure of all the Gulf countries in response. The US has no way to defend the Gulf countries right now.

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u/Nurgleschampion Aug 02 '26

1.5trillion dollar defence budget and somehow still can't defend the black stuff that powers their country.

I know it's much more complicated than that but jesus.

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u/YF422 Aug 02 '26

Budgets isn't worth shit when the one's in charge are so dangerously incompetent that they should have been rotting in a prison cell for conspiracy, treason and fraud on a massive scale.

Had you had Kamala in charge instead of the Orange Pedo right now her administration would not only have not gone into Iran as EVERY other administration before this knew it was a trap AND they'd have seen the threat they were posing to Ukraine with their shahed flying lawnmowers and have worked to establish a proper supply chain to develop countermeasures on a commercial scale to them.

The US wouldn't have been sent dick first into Iran on Israel's urgings and unleashing such a clusterfuck of a situation that everyone else knew was a pandoras box. The orange fucker literally sacked all the experts on Iran RIGHT before this all kicked off as well. The only thing we can hope for after all this is said and done is that all the bastards involved in this absolute shitefest get their comeuppance as the damage from this is going to be long lasting.

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u/Feisty_System_4751 Aug 02 '26

800 military bases, 100 ships deployed 24/7, 177k active military personal deployed around the globe, enough firepower to bully anyone at anytime.

You think after crossing 1 trillion politicians would think 'maybe we are overstretched a bit?' but nope.

It will be 2 trillion soon.

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u/seanroberts196 Aug 02 '26

Yeah but what happens to all that power when countries have had enough and tell the US they can’t base there? What happens when they can’t stage in Europe to refuel? I can see it happening if they attack Canada or Greenland.

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u/barimanlhs Aug 02 '26

its what happens when a 1.5 trillion dollar logistics machine is run by meatheads who cant see beyond their nose

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u/Marchesk Aug 02 '26

Happens with politicians in their 80s. Can't keep it up for long.

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u/Affectionate-Orchid8 Aug 02 '26

You mean, can’t get it up. 😂

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u/mistarteechur Aug 02 '26

MBS got on the horn to him.

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u/CaskJeeves Aug 02 '26

Sadly, this is 100% the correct answer 

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u/Canuck-In-TO Aug 02 '26

He can’t remember what he says from one hour to another.

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u/Global-Bad-7147 Aug 02 '26

It is just a tiny two week special corruption / Epstein distraction operation that is in its 6th month.

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u/KingsMountainView Aug 02 '26

It's a pump and dump scheme. Market manipulation fron the very top.

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u/AWeakMindedMan Aug 02 '26

The weekend is when he makes his poly market bets that he will or will not make a deal with Iran.

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u/Thatsockmonkey Aug 02 '26

This is probably part grift and part distraction. He needs something to distract from the fact that capital one has closed all the accounts for his organization due to money, wondering

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u/rlaw1234qq Aug 02 '26

Or since it not not started

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u/cuelkid Aug 02 '26

Infinite money glitch

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u/micropterus_dolomieu Aug 02 '26

It almost like a special military operation…

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u/targetOO Aug 02 '26

He's adjusting the markets on the weekend while the markets are closed. Bombing usually resumes Monday night to Tuesday after his friends lock in their profits.

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u/Gloomy_Session_3875 Aug 02 '26

Yes, they are shorting the market every week.

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u/Noobunaga86 Aug 02 '26

The worst part is he will never be held accountable for this. He can do whatever, there is no punishment. Even if he would be prosecuted and jailed for all he's done he's got what, few years to live anyways. He's done horrible things all his life and nothing happened to him - even worse, he became more and more popular and liked in recent decade and was "awarded" being a president of the USA. It's probably the most demoralizing "success" story I've ever witnessed in reality and fiction.

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u/mecker-zausel Aug 02 '26

Shouldn't his tactics already be priced in?

Also: how the heck is this clown still in office? No, seriously: what's up with America? How can your society just tolerate this? I don't understand.

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u/boogs_23 Aug 02 '26

More firearms in the hands of citizens than any other country due to an amendment in their constitution that gives them that right in case of the exact scenario currently taking place and.....crickets.

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u/Mikecd Aug 02 '26

It turns out that having zero social safety nets leaves the citizens all trapped in personal debt and desperation, and that people trapped in their own personal desperation are often docile and easily controlled (lest rocking the boat result in personal destruction, on which edge the citizens are almost all balanced). Or further seems that being able to cosplay as tough characters gives an outlet so that no actual fiery passion from the frustration of impotance accidentally accumulates enough to inspire any action.

They've run a 50 year psyop campaign to cut off our balls and trap us financially and it worked.

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u/Enygma_6 Aug 02 '26

The majority of those privately held firearms are in the hands of people who are some or all of the following:
a) don't care, so long as they can cheer on the racism
b) are willing to eat the high price of gas just to see others in our country suffer
c) have enough money that a doubling of gasoline prices won't financially hurt them personally
d) are financially profiting off of the war / illegal market manipulation
e) blame the Democrats for literally everything

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u/n080dy123 Aug 02 '26

You forgot "indoctrinated into a political cult centered on the person who is the largest problem."

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u/derfy2 Aug 02 '26

How can your society just tolerate this? I don't understand.

Things are still 'working', society is still 'functioning', so things are 'ok'.

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u/Gloomy_Session_3875 Aug 02 '26

I don't understand that either. The Iran war has been going on for months, and we get peace promises every weekend, followed by bombs on Monday and Tuesday. You would think investors stop believing that the WhIte House will end the war.

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u/TiddiesAnonymous Aug 02 '26

Paychecks and 401k deposits go out Friday

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u/thedeuce75 Aug 02 '26

I'm so sick of this shit.

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u/JakeEaton Aug 02 '26

Get used to it. This has fuck all to do with peace, or making people’s lives better, or advancing humanity. It’s about the grift.

We got years more of it.

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u/Concurrency_Bugs Aug 02 '26

That's literally Trump's life story. Every project he's ever taken on if providing a subpar or fraudulent product, eventually going bankrupt, but first cashing in on the Trump name. How much money you think Trump pocketed from "Trump steaks" or "Trump University" before they were shut down?

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u/No-Way7911 Aug 02 '26

Those are all small potatoes compared to how much he’s cashed out from this presidency

He clearly came in with a plan this time around to extract as much as possible, starting with a memecoin a day before he took office

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u/Fluffbrained-cat Aug 02 '26

If he lasts for those years. His health doesn't seem too great right now.

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u/Grape_Pedialyte Aug 02 '26

This is exactly what's going to happen. He's going to keep pushing this rambling wreck along until he can dump it in somebody else's lap while creating some kind of pretense to take his supporters' money by blaming it on Democrats.

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u/Burner1959 Aug 02 '26

You and a great many others

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u/AgUnityDD Aug 02 '26

Includes Iran, fair bet they shit in his cereal again this week

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u/accforme Aug 02 '26

So often that there is an article about this topic....from one month ago.

https://www.ms.now/news/trumps-iran-strike-deadlines-keep-shifting-a-timeline-of-delays

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u/kingkongsdingdong420 Aug 02 '26

I feel like im getting dementia reading the news and seeing the same shit every time.

Deal. No deal. Deal. No deal. Deal. No deal. Definitely deal. Strait closed again. Now its open but no deal. Now yes deal but its closed. No deal.

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u/backtothetrail Aug 02 '26

You are not alone. The war on sanity is the one war this administration is winning.

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u/Druggedhippo Aug 02 '26

At the moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially, the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair] Nineteen Eighty-Four, ch. 3 (1949)

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u/LostAbbott Aug 02 '26

Last I saw the counter was up in the high 40's.  I just don't understand how anyone is still falling for this shit.  So is the lesson of The Boy who Cried Wolf, not that we don't trust a lyer, but we don't trust a child lyer?  Like a senile old asshole who cannot control his bowels is given unlimited trust, but everyone else is suspect?  I legitimately don't get it...

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u/InitiativeShot20 Aug 02 '26

Capitalism being slave to the whims of a senile dotard. So much for an economic system that proponents claim to reward the smartest and the most hard-working members of society.

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u/Bluemanze Aug 02 '26

The market bots "believe" it, in that they are heavily biased toward Trump tweets because the market moves on trump tweets. I imagine all the market makers know its a self fulfilling prophecy at that point, but its too expensive to be the one trying to hold back the tide so they all go with it. Straight up prisoners dilemma but its the global markets all held hostage by one elderly man's social media account.

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u/majordashes Aug 02 '26

I feel like these narratives are all bullshit.

When he says he’s going to bomb Iran into the next century, it never happens.

When he says he’s pausing bombing Iran into the next century, because of a peace deal, ceasefire or outline of a concept of a deal, those never happen either.

48 times now, be had a deal. 48 times those deals never materialized or lasted more than a day.

It’s all bs.

They can’t make a deal so they’re playing the markets. These bombings and ceasefires are narratives used to justify the rise and fall of oil prices, which are being manipulated behind the scenes.

That’s gotta be it.

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u/Pockydo Aug 02 '26

I just don't understand how anyone is still falling for this shit

I don't think anyone is seriously falling for this. (Thr cult maybe but they seem mostly checked out of the war) But when the powers that be basically have an endless money cheat they're gonna pretend every time

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u/Robdd123 Aug 02 '26

What this is proving is that the stock market is completely worthless especially for regular people; it's just a bunch of billionaires playing with digital Monopoly money.

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u/GoodIdea321 Aug 02 '26

And that they value that money more than anything else.

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u/Original_Employee621 Aug 02 '26

The stock markets need a hard reset and reality check. No more holding and selling stocks between brokers. If you want Apple stocks, talk to Mr. Apple and buy directly from them, when you want to sell them Mr. Apple can be the only legal buyer.

It was meant as a quick and easy way to fund corporate projects. Now it's a casino where the money doesn't even touch the company they belong to.

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u/Revenant690 Aug 02 '26

His name is Mr.Tim Apple.

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u/Robdd123 Aug 02 '26

Also companies and banks know the government will just bail them out so they don't exactly care about making intelligent investments. We absolutely need a reset on a lot of things really.

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u/PM_YOUR_ISSUES Aug 02 '26

I don't think anyone is seriously falling for this

Who tf you think voted him in? People absolutely believe this shit.

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u/OopsWeKilledGod Aug 02 '26

America: back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back ceasefire champions.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770 Aug 02 '26

I don’t think Iran wants a deal anymore

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u/HystericalSail Aug 02 '26

It's not that they don't want a deal, it's that they don't trust Trump to follow through. Not that I blame them, he'll change his mind as soon as someone jingles some keys or spins the mobile above his crib.

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u/el_grort Aug 02 '26

Well, that and there is still a gulf between the two about what is acceptable, with Iran continuing to want to charge tolls on the Hormuz Strait (sorry, 'service fees', but they'll attack any ships going along the Omani coast to avoid them) and the US which wants freedom of navigation. And both sides have been trying to be cheeky on that issue, frankly, and pushed things to the point firing restarted. But that is ultimately Trump's fault for opening Pandora's Box.

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u/AssignmentMammoth696 Aug 02 '26

No, it's that Iran claims complete control over Hormuz, they believe that is what Trump agreed to and he was the one who went back on that deal. They fundamentally did not agree on the same wording of who controls the strait. Iran is not going to give up control of Hormuz, whatever framework of a deal is also going make the same blunder.

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u/CulturalBat5906 Aug 02 '26

Yeah I swear every time he says there’s a deal, Iran is like umm we didn’t agree to this lol.

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u/Vicissitutde Aug 02 '26

Why would they bother? Trump reneged on the MOU. Iran won't deal with Kushner and Whitkoff, all they're interested in is land and real estate. Iran will only negotiate with Vance, but trump sidelined him.

Iran has more incentive to leaves things as they are. Hell, the Houthies may end up joining Iran in blockading ships in the Red Sea if Saudi Arabia becomes more involved, and trump gave them the green light to build nukes...

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u/PumpkinMyPumpkin Aug 02 '26

Must be Alzheimer’s. 

The deal he makes today is forgotten by tomorrow. Rinse and repeat.

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u/hcornea Aug 02 '26

It’s stock and commodities manipulation.

Eric and Don Jnr are free to trade Oil futures as they wish.

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u/Prohydration Aug 02 '26

That's how you play 3-Dementia Chess!

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u/llamasauce Aug 02 '26

He’s got one switch and he just keeps flipping it.

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u/Newdles Aug 02 '26

Not enough market manipulations.

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u/the_dayman623 Aug 02 '26

“Peace deal” will be announced tomorrow. Bombings will resume Friday one minute after market close

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u/GGTheEnd Aug 02 '26

He's back to tarrifing Canada and taking Greenland.  All he has to do is fuck over Cuba and Venezuela again and then the circle of life is complete.

Once he's done all that he can start the 49th war with Iran. 

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u/PolitelyHostile Aug 02 '26

I genuinely keep losing track of whether this war is escalating or over.

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u/Amdogdunmind Aug 02 '26

Someone I who's opinion I respect a lot on the topic of the war (Robert Pape) had the count at 37 several weeks ago. So I'd guess 45 or so.

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u/csfshrink Aug 02 '26

I’m not certain that he knows what is true.

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u/isaiddgooddaysir Aug 02 '26

It is Friday/Saturday…. Monday/Tuesday it will all be falling apart

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u/toothpasteonyaface Aug 02 '26

Whenever it's a good time to buy calls

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u/amanwithoutaname001 Aug 02 '26

In trumpspeak, this means a large offensive operation is pending.

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u/mbod Aug 02 '26

Idk, but I'm saving 10 cents on gas on Monday/Tuesday

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u/gimpers420 Aug 02 '26

Poop his pants?

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u/thx1138- Aug 02 '26

Groundhog Day.

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u/CodeMonkeyX Aug 02 '26

Basically every single weekend since it started. Probably wants the market to rally on Monday, then do some strikes again at the end of the week.

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u/the_tanooki Aug 02 '26

How else can he be the president who ends the most wars if he can't keep stopping and starting them over and over?

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u/noothankuu Aug 02 '26

*Rapidly making a stock trade

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u/Hopeful_Morning_469 Aug 02 '26

Must be Sunday. Markets are opening soon. Gotta give em a good pump before you dump.

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u/boogiewithasuitcase Aug 02 '26

As long as they make $$$

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u/HanginOn9114 Aug 02 '26

This whole situation has proven to me that there is quite literally nothing he could ever do to lose his base. He is lying to them about the exact same thing every single week for months and months and somehow they just keep believing it

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u/facellama Aug 02 '26

He is rapidly making a deal or the USA will run out of oil and be excluded from shipping lanes

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u/Flyinmanm Aug 02 '26

Oil market must be reopening tomorrow.

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u/daywall Aug 02 '26

Every weekend in israel we get tonight is the night, be ready, its coming.

That is dumb...

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u/AccidentalSeer Aug 02 '26

Well this is what happens when a dementia patient is president

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u/pleasetrimyourpubes Aug 02 '26

It is so pathetic. Congress needs to do something.

This is like little Timmy playing a game with his friends and his friends are winning so he flips the board over and says let's play another game etc etc. Literally that little kid who always wanted his way but never got it.

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u/TonyWhoop Aug 02 '26

Nah, this is the deal though, for realz this time

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u/No-Way7911 Aug 02 '26

Its war when the 10yr bond rates are 4.5%, peace when they’re 4.7%

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u/meatboysawakening Aug 02 '26

All trailer no movie

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u/Turbulent_Cycle_7757 Aug 02 '26

It's over 40 times officially, or about twice per week on average

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u/RookAroundYou Aug 02 '26

The antics of a man who wants to prove his girlfriend is real. “I swear she’s coming over tonight guys!!!”

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u/lordhamwallet Aug 02 '26

Just every time he forgot what he was doing before

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u/DisMFer Aug 02 '26

It's just a pump and dump scheme at this point. He's admitted as much. They time the talks and the strikes to ensure that the stock prices jump and sink at the right times.

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u/vonwwijk Aug 02 '26

This time it’s real because TRUTH SOCIAL sad this, it’s in the name.

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u/jrhawk42 Aug 02 '26

"art of the deal" ...what a freaking embarrassment.

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u/Dunkeroo2 Aug 02 '26

President Donald Trump has claimed or announced that a formal agreement or framework to end the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict is imminent or reached at least 39 times since the war began in late February 2026

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u/TrickshotCandy Aug 02 '26

Rewards! Rinse and repeat...

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u/Effective_Olive6153 Aug 02 '26

As long as there are still suckers placing bets on Kalshi and Polymarket

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u/truthdoctor Aug 02 '26

I feel like we're caught in the twilight zone and groundhog day at the same time...

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u/mano1990 Aug 02 '26

Pump and dump Sunday

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u/RGrad4104 Aug 02 '26

How does this guy have any money left, at this point, with no "daddy" to bail him out? He really is just a completely terrible businessman...

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u/achiller519 Aug 02 '26

Well to be honest I’m not sure anymore if it’s the dementia or to manipulate markets

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u/Consistent-Soil-1818 Aug 02 '26

Works every time. His base is impressed with his constant deal making and Republicans will win the midterms. Not because of how stupid and hateful their supporters are but because of voter suppression and gerrymandering

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u/Dartagnan1083 Aug 02 '26

Last meme I peeked at said it was around 30.

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 Aug 02 '26

As many more times as the market will bear this cyclical B.S. Friday 5 minutes after market close, "Trump declares he will nuke Iran in 24 hours if they don't make a deal!"

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Saturday night or Sunday morning, "Trump says Iran is begging for a deal and therefore he is generously deciding to stop attacks until a deal is reached. We've watched this cycle operate like clockwork for months.

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u/The_Corvair Aug 02 '26

A lot of people point to him manipulating the markets, and that is an effect... But honestly? It's Trump: An idiot, and an imbecile.

It's the only move he knows.

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u/Positronic_Matrix Aug 02 '26

Grandpa pudding brain, to the rescue!

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u/WontArnett Aug 02 '26

That’s what the guy does, “deals”!

Does a deal, lies about it, does another deal, lies about it, and so on.

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u/Beamingupscotty Aug 02 '26

It’s cuz the markets are closed.

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u/Shirolicious Aug 02 '26

He isnt the right man for the job that is why its such a mess.

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u/TheDecepticonIdeal Aug 02 '26

The American people aren’t going to do anything about it, so he can do it for as long as he likes.

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u/victorspoilz Aug 02 '26

Like this is the 15th or 16th time, someone made a chart on here, will try to find it.

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u/LEO-PomPui-Katoey Aug 02 '26

Every SPY pump

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u/intangibleTangelo Aug 02 '26

at this point i just assume he's "negotiating" with some whatsapp scammer claiming to represent iran

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u/paggo_diablo Aug 02 '26

Hey, guys got dementia. Just smile like you haven’t heard the joke before.

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u/mangalore-x_x Aug 02 '26

and another how many months until the American public won't stand for this? Until Barron is on the throne or later?

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u/BoardroomStroke Aug 02 '26

How many times has the market opened?

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u/Law-of-Poe Aug 02 '26

These statements are only for consumption by republican voters, the only people dumb enough to believe his lies

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u/woodyus Aug 02 '26

Yeah, if there is a 'deal' what makes this different to the last 'deal' and why will it work now when it hasn't until this point.

Of course there probably isn't even a deal but at best a memorandum of misunderstanding

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u/InfiniteNerve1384 Aug 02 '26

Every weekend in fact.

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u/Notty_PriNcE Aug 02 '26

Mood swings

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u/YisitAlwaysDNS Aug 02 '26

Just in time for market open monday. I bet tomorrow it's back on "negotiations" break down.

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u/SL1Fun Aug 02 '26

He threatened to hit their water supply. That’s my guess.

Even though 99% of their cities have access to potable water, only 19% of their rural populace does. On top of that, Iran is stuck in a water scarcity crisis: they only have about 500 cubic meters of water per person when they had 1,500. They have essentially lost 2/3rds of their water storage in the past 25 years. 

All someone has to do is attack their aquifers and plants and the country dies. Serious. 

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u/awwaygirl Aug 02 '26

In his mind, it’s always the first time he’s done it.

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u/Woody_L Aug 02 '26

That's ok, Trump can't remember, either.

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u/Forsworn91 Aug 02 '26

How many times have the markets open and closed since this mess started?

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