Donald Trump drew a backlash on Sunday for suggesting US efforts to protect the strait of Hormuz were unnecessary – and that “maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all” because his country has plenty of oil of its own.
The president made the contradictory comment to reporters on Air Force One after pleading with European and Nato allies to enter the war against Iran to help the US secure the strait amid the largest oil supply disruption in history.
“Really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory – because it is their territory,” he said.
“They should come and they should help us protect it. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all, because we don’t need it. We have a lot of oil. We’re the number one producer anywhere in the world times two.”
God, I’m so sick and tired of all the anglo mass-media slop and their disgustingly manipulative and clickbaity titles.
I cannot wait for the day when this shit gets banned.
And I’m sick of weasel words. There is no maybe. We shouldn’t be there, period.
What’s clickbaity about this headline? He literally said these words, and it means the same thing in context as it does as a standalone sentence
not enough russia/chinese tankie news most likely, accoridng to the original commentor.
There is no backlash and there will be no backlash. A few people, maybe even a few Republicans, will question it to the press, but certainly will not directly question their orange Jesus.
The backlash is demonstrated in the linked huffpo article
Social media comments from 4 people he doesn’t care about.
I get my US news from cbc.ca these days
I get where you are coming from but this post is not what you are referring to.