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[ItWasMeantToBe19]

Iranian state television released video footage Friday claiming to show the launch of a new type of medium-range ballistic missile, a few hours after it was displayed during a military parade in Tehran.

But it turns out Iran never fired a ballistic missile, sources say.

The video released by the Iranians was more than seven months old – dating back to a failed launch in late January, which resulted in the missile exploding shortly after liftoff, according to two U.S. officials.

President Trump had originally responded to the reported launch in a late-Saturday tweet, saying, “Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel. They are also working with North Korea. Not much of an agreement we have!”

This was after Trump, speaking before world leaders at the United Nations, called the Iran nuclear deal an “embarrassment” to the United States.

oh my fucking god.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...missile-launch-was-fake-us-officials-say.html

-Iran tries to act like they have the biggest dick in the world by pretending they tested a missile.

-Trump immediately believes them and doesn't check with his staff and proclaims that they tested a missile.

:facepalm:

 

[Sevenfold]

The inmates truly are running the asylum.

 

[Ahasverus]

southparktweets.jpg

 

[Xamtheking]

He's just being proactive, not reactive
Facts don't matter if you're first

 

[JigglesBunny]

Ah yes, the Bowling Green bombing. Tragedy, that was.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

President Trump had originally responded to the reported launch in a late-Saturday tweet, saying, “Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel. They are also working with North Korea. Not much of an agreement we have!”

Just blatantly making shit up

 

[Tamanon]

I....

He has the full weight of the military and intelligence branches to provide him actual, real information.

It's just dumb.

 

[Any Questions]

Am expecting to see

"You been played" gif in

5,4,3,2...

 

[manzoman96]

This man is so easily triggered it's almost comical. What a disaster.

 

[Tarrin]

 

[orochi91]

He so desperately wants a reason to launch a war against Iran...

I don't doubt for a second that Bibi and the Gulf Monarchs are pushing for this behind the scenes.

:/

 

[SpaceWolf]

When I click my fingers, Trump will never have happened!

 

[Eusis]

At least an Iran government source made shit up this time rather than some random website, so I guess we're improving in regards to Trump responding to fake bullshit.

 

[exmachina64]

Trump immediately believes them and doesn't check with his staff and proclaims that they tested a missile.

What staff? There’s no room for experts or professionals in the Trump administration.

 

[RustyNails]

Iranians are probably laughing their asses off.

Seriously someone take this idiot's TV.

 

[manzoman96]

What staff? There’s no room for experts or professionals in the Trump administration.

His friends are his staff. Fox and friends that is.

 

[parrotbeak]

Well what if they had fired a missile? Wouldn't you have wanted him to be the first world leader to tweet about it?

 

[brian577]

oh my fucking god.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...missile-launch-was-fake-us-officials-say.html

-Iran tries to act like they have the biggest dick in the world by pretending they tested a missile.

-Trump immediately believes them and doesn't check with his staff and proclaims that they tested a missile.

:facepalm:

I don't want to defend the man but this was considered actual news from the actual media. When the announcement was made I had no reason to believe it wasn't real, why should he?

 

[RustyNails]

Well what if they had fired a missile? Wouldn't you have wanted him to be the first world leader to tweet about it?

"Clearly Trump was talking about Iran's capability to launch a nuclear strike"

 

[Kevtones]

Come on guys, he's new to this and only has 36,000 tweets.

 

[Apharmd]

Ah yes, the Bowling Green bombing. Tragedy, that was.

wait

I thought that tragedy was a shooting

 

[Zolo]

I don't want to defend the man but this was considered actual news from the actual media. When the announcement was made I had no reason to believe it wasn't real, why should he?

The problem is that he shouldn't be solely relying on information from news stations like he's an old man sitting at home. He should wait for confirmation from his intelligence networks.

 

[Volimar]

I don't want to defend the man but this was considered actual news from the actual media. When the announcement was made I had no reason to believe it wasn't real, why should he?

He has other sources than the media to rely on.

 

[kadotsu]

He is going to start a war with a middle eastern nation. He has finally become a standard neocon President.

 

[parrotbeak]

One day he's going to be right and you'll all look so foolish!

 

[Trouble]

I don't want to defend the man but this was considered actual news from the actual media. When the announcement was made I had no reason to believe it wasn't real, why should he?

Because he's the fucking president and should be getting his info from our intelligence agencies?

 

[ebullientprism]

The good news part of this scenario is that everyone and their dog knows the US has a raging dumb fuck as a leader so no one really gives a shit about what he says. I am sure if Obama did something like this there would be Ambassadorial issues up the ass.

 

[RustyNails]

I don't want to defend the man but this was considered actual news from the actual media. When the announcement was made I had no reason to believe it wasn't real, why should he?

Because he has the full force of Homeland fucking Security to provide intel on missile launches, unlike you. Do you think all our previous presidents got their intel reports from Fox News?

 

[tbm24]

Matter of time before a country tried trolling trump on this level. Dude has gone on twitter and lied about talking to his generals on multiple occasions.

 

[Kevtones]

wait

I thought that tragedy was a shooting

Bombing/shooting, it doesn't matter. Either way those sons of bitches caused it by not standing for the anthem.

 

[RinsFury]

Fuck Twitter for not just banning this stupid fucks account already. Would he even be able to stop them from doing it?

 

[_Ryo_]

I....

He has the full weight of the military and intelligence branches to provide him actual, real information.

It's just dumb.

He doesn't listen to or read Intel.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Iranians are probably laughing their asses off.

Seriously someone take this idiot's TV.

World's so crazy right now that I won't be surprised if Iran did that fake missile launch with the intention of having all this happen.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

That secret Nambian tech tho

 

[sunshine and gasoline]

If this guy did nothing it would be so much better. -_-

 

[Ahasverus]

Fuck Twitter for not just banning this stupid fucks account already. Would he even be able to stop them from doing it?

It's probably their greatest source of income.

 

[Gutek]

Remember when he wouldn’t condemn actual fucking Nazis because he wanted the facts first?

 

[SolidSnakex]

It's probably their greatest source of income.

I'd be surprised if he were. Despite how active he is on Twitter, he's not actually that big. And half of his followers are fake. It explains why none of his tweets are that popular. Meanwhile 12 of the top 20 most liked tweets ever are by Obama.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

quick, somebody edit the text in persian!

 

[Kayhan]

If our eyes aren't real does it really matters if the missiles are real?

 

[Lunar15]

I've actually started thinking the people who said we should just make up shit Obama did and tweet it out so that trump will do the exact opposite were right. I'm now at the point where I'm convinced it will work.

 

[hypernima]

Iran trollllinnn lmao.

 

[Kevtones]

I've actually started thinking the people who said we should just make up shit Obama did and tweet it out so that trump will do the exact opposite were right. I'm now at the point where I'm convinced it will work.

I like this idea.

 

[paperboywriter]

Is he trying to start a nuclear war?

 

[andythinkpad]

Maybe his relationship with CIA is so toxic he can't get anything good from them? LOL its 2017 anything is possible.

 

[BrassDragon]

The man commands of 800,000 intelligence professionals.

But no, let's trust flashes of propaganda.

 

[DietRob]

Just setting up his bullshit so that he can revoke the nuke deal with them.

It's probably their greatest source of income.

I feel like I've read somewhere that his twitter account is worth a few hundred million to them. Who knows really what it's worth. I don't think even twitter understands why they are worth money.

 

[Oersted]

Remember when he wouldn’t condemn actual fucking Nazis because he wanted the facts first?

Wasn't that during the same press conference were Trump lied the antifascist protestors didn't have a permit?

 

[Creamium]

lol this is insane

It'll take years for the US to get rid of this guy's foul stench. Consider the damage he can and will do if nothing happens and stays in the seat.

 

[parrotbeak]

Wasn't that during the same press conference were Trump lied the antifascist protestors didn't have a permit?

Hard to keep track of the times he didn't want to take a stance on nazis. This was from the New Yorker Feb 2016.

Over the weekend, Trump’s purported indifference to support from white supremacists and fascists became an inescapable problem. He had retweeted a Mussolini quote from @ilduce2016 (which, it turned out, was an account created by Gawker to trap Trump)—“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep”—and, when asked, on NBC, if he wanted to associate himself with Mussolini, he said that he wanted "to be associated with interesting quotes.” He added, "Mussolini was Mussolini. . . . What difference does it make?" On CNN, Jake Tapper pressed him about David Duke, and Trump, seeming to forget that he had given a one-line disavowal, reverted to a position of theatrical incomprehension: "Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, O.K.?" Tapper asked three times if Trump would denounce the Klan’s support, and each time Trump declined. "I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," he said. "So I don't know. I don't know—did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists."