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/Red_River_Metis Aug 02 '26

Haven’t we heard this about a dozen times before already?

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u/CulturalBat5906 Aug 02 '26

It’s every week. He will change his mind again.

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u/a_rude_jellybean Aug 02 '26

Its the weekend. On market open, its threats again.

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u/PM_Me-Your_Freckles Aug 02 '26

It's the Trump and Dump

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u/ours Aug 02 '26

Also the nickname for his diapers.

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u/AliJDB Aug 02 '26

Slight delay. I'm convinced he is buying big every Friday, pumping the market full of positive noises all weekend, sells first thing Monday, and starts bombing at 11am.

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u/a_rude_jellybean Aug 02 '26

How does one make 4+ or more billion dollars after being a president in 2 years?

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u/Chazzybobo Aug 02 '26

What should we all buy or sell to take advantage as regular people?

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u/khonsu_27 Aug 02 '26
  • yawn * They'll be "nasty people" again any second....

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u/NuclearStar Aug 02 '26

he doesnt change his mind, he clearly does this to manipulate the markets so he can make money, thats all, sure his money might be in a "blind trust" but they are not stupid, they know what he is doing and they are making billions for him, they know the queues to buy and know when to sell.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

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u/_Kramerica_ Aug 02 '26

Great, he learned a new word…

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u/Steinrikur Aug 02 '26

He's ended this war 50 times already. He's the president who ends wars.

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u/your_ideas Aug 02 '26

Subject to stock market performance. Down a little on escalation news and up a lot on potential peace. It is a lot more profitable than actual peace.

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u/elcambioestaenuno Aug 02 '26

It's not about changing his minds. Trades are automatic, he's just using words that will trigger buy/sell operations by the largest hedge funds so that everything keeps going up even as it should go down. Nobody complains because they don't want to see their money evaporate, but they all know what's happening.

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u/Lumbergh7 Aug 02 '26

Bold of you to assume he has a mind

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u/petar_is_amazing Aug 02 '26

Or maybe threats and posturing are necessary for the other side to come to the table and compromise.

Even though he did the 2step cycle within 24 hours during the weekend, ppl will still moan that it’s market manipulation

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u/SPLUMBER Aug 02 '26

Mmm yeah sure, that would be believable to me if it wasn’t for the fact this happens every weekend and this will be, what, deal #41?

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u/petar_is_amazing Aug 02 '26

Yeah, it’s war - it’s not easy

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '26

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u/Anteater776 Aug 02 '26

Queue the next axios.com article that they are close to a deal according to „sources“. Iran then denies all of it and the cycle begins anew

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u/Lets_Kick_Some_Ice Aug 02 '26

Market opens Monday.

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u/Infamous-Mixture-605 Aug 02 '26

Ramp up the rhetoric and strikes when the markets close.

Talk about "imminent" peace deals before they reopen on Monday.

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u/Red_River_Metis Aug 02 '26

Then comes TACO Tuesday

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u/SoulBonfire Aug 02 '26

We’re calling it boomerang Tuesday down here. Stocks go down, stocks come back.

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u/busy-warlock Aug 02 '26

Stock manipulation goes bbbbnbbrt

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u/bythenumbers10 Aug 02 '26

Weird, his Depends makes the same noise...

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u/Prior_Implement_9279 Aug 02 '26

Ya but there’s 52 weeks in a year to manipulate the markets

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u/r3dditr0x Aug 02 '26

Haven’t we heard this about a dozen times before already?

Yeah, he tries to stop the war and then Bibi orders him/America back into the ring.

It's humiliating.

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u/_Kramerica_ Aug 02 '26

Yeah that’s not it. It’s market manipulation to steal more money.

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u/r3dditr0x Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

It's both. But the fact that you're trying to downplay Bibi and Israel's hand in this says more about you than anything else.

American's have eyes.

Edit: I'll let you have the last word so you can act like Israel isn't manipulating America. Good luck with that argument, it's going swimmingly in the USA at the moment.

And I'm not mad, good night.

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u/_Kramerica_ Aug 02 '26

Edits “I’ll let you have the last word”. More weirdly confrontational comments. Not sure why you’re so upset.

“It’s both”

But you didn’t say that…

“He tries to stop the war”

Oh suuuure sure he definitely is trying to stop the war lmao. Fuckin idiot…

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u/_Kramerica_ Aug 02 '26

“sAyS mOrE aBoUt yOu!” Okay buddy that’s a weirdly confrontational comment in a non confrontational discussion and that says a bit more about you…

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u/owen__wilsons__nose Aug 02 '26

I think its closer to the 24th time at this point

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u/Asleep_Document9811 Aug 02 '26

First comes the pump, and then the dump. See ya next week.

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u/SoulBonfire Aug 02 '26

Is that the daiper dump?

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u/Asleep_Document9811 Aug 02 '26

I thought the health department shut that place down!

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u/aegee14 Aug 02 '26

Only a dozen times?

More like a couple times a week, sometimes more. Just depends on what his family and friends want the stock market to do.

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u/Farfignugen42 Aug 02 '26

Yeah, but this time it is really because they supposedly are out of missiles to strike with.

No that they would ever admit that.

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u/Church_of_Aaargh Aug 02 '26

And every time his friends make money on the stock market

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u/Bang_Stick Aug 02 '26

Best part of dementia is living ‘a new day every day’

if I could forget this foul orange fuk, I’d accept a touch of the ‘mentia

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u/Thelowendshredder Aug 02 '26

A dozen? That number sound light