Trump, consistently, has not carried through on his threats to Iran.

[SweetSue92]

Trump has not carried through on his threats to Iran.
He has lost credibility worldwide. The US is loosing credibility worldwide.
He is losing credibility with his supporters except for the hardcore MAGA members

March 21, 2026 — 48-hour ultimatum​

Threat:

• Trump demanded Iran fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours
• Warned the U.S. would “hit and obliterate” Iranian power plants

What happened:

• Deadline passed without compliance
• No immediate U.S. strike on power plants

What Trump did instead:

• Extended / shifted deadlines multiple times over the following days

Pattern: Hard deadline → no follow-through → timeline moved

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Late March (around March 23–30) — escalating threats​

Threats:

• Expanded threats to include:
  • Oil wells
  • Electric grid
  • Kharg Island (major oil export hub)
• Suggested destruction if a deal wasn’t reached “shortly”

What happened:

• No comprehensive deal reached
• Iran did not meet full U.S. demands

Outcome:

• No full-scale destruction campaign launched
• Trump continued to alternate between:
  • claiming talks were progressing
  • threatening escalation

Pattern: Threat escalation → no execution → rhetorical shift

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Early April (April 5–7, 2026) — “Power Plant Day / civilization” threats​

Threats:

• “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day” (targeting infrastructure)
• “The entire country can be taken out in one night”
• “A whole civilization will die tonight”

Demand:

• Immediate deal and reopening of the Strait

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April 7–8, 2026 — Iran responds / partial compliance environment​

What changed:

• Iran signaled willingness for:
  • ceasefire framework
  • talks via mediators (Pakistan, others)
• Movement toward reopening navigation conditions (core U.S. demand)

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Result: Trump backs off imminent strike​

Instead of carrying out threats:

• Trump suspended planned attacks for two weeks
• Accepted negotiations instead of immediate escalation

This is the clearest example of:

• Explicit deadline + extreme threat
• Partial Iranian compliance / negotiation movement
• No follow-through on threatened destruction

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Repeated deadline shifting (March → April 2026)​

Pattern documented:

• Deadlines moved from:
  • March 23 → later dates → early April → April 8
• Each time paired with warnings like:
  • “Hell will reign down”
  • Infrastructure destruction threats

Outcome:

• Deadlines repeatedly passed or were extended
• No immediate execution of the most extreme threats

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April 2026 — Ceasefire despite unmet core demands​

Context:

• Iran did not fully concede on key issues (e.g., nuclear program, regional policy)

What Trump did:

• Entered a temporary ceasefire / pause in attacks
• Despite earlier threats of:
  • total destruction
  • immediate large-scale bombing

Key point: Even without full compliance, escalation was paused.

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What this shows (pattern)​

Across multiple instances in 2026:

1. Ultimatums with fixed deadlines​

• “48 hours”
• “Tuesday night”
• “tonight”

2. Extreme threatened outcomes​

• Destroy infrastructure
• “obliterate” energy systems
• even “destroy the country”

3. Outcomes that diverged​

• Deadlines shifted or ignored
• Partial Iranian moves → diplomacy instead of strikes
• Ceasefire or pause instead of escalation

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Bottom line​

There are clear, documented cases where:

• Trump issued specific, time-bound threats
• Iran partially engaged or moved toward demands (talks, ceasefire, navigation issues)
• Trump did not follow throughon the threatened large-scale attacks and instead:
  • delayed
  • escalated rhetoric further
  • or pivoted to negotiations

The April 7–8, 2026 episode (civilization / infrastructure threats → ceasefire) is the strongest concrete example of this pattern.

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What do you people WANT?

Us to attack Iran or not?

Make up your minds, geez

 

[berg80]

If Trump wants to destroy Iran's powerplants, that ends their drone production, missile production, and pretty much everything.

Including any claim to the notion the US doesn't commit war crimes. But than that idea went up in flames in the Caribbean.

The United States’ unprecedented military campaign, Operation Southern Spear, came without any plausible legal justifications. The extrajudicial assassination of civilians in international waters is, plainly, murder. Under any law, the U.S. military is not permitted to deliberately target civilians — even suspected criminals — who do not pose an imminent threat of violence.

https://ccrjustice.org/home/blog/2026/03/18/trumps-murders-caribbean-rooted-counterterrorism-framework

 

[ElmerMudd]

What do you people WANT?

Us to attack Iran or not?

Make up your minds, geez

You cannot negotiate with friend or foe if you cannot trust what they say.
What I feel should be done is not relevant.
The issue is the way Trump manages the war. He threatens to do horrific things but does not do them. He changes what his goal is in Iran daily.
One moment he is going to wipe out an entire civilization of 93 million people. Less than 24 hours later he discussed how the US and Iran will partner on charging tankers to go through the straits. It is fricking nuts.

 

[ElmerMudd]

So we didn't bomb them?


ALERT THE PRESS!





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He never said he was going to bomb them until after he did.
He threatened to wipe the Iranian civilization off the map but did not, plus all of the other crazy threats he did not carry through on.
The guy in nuts and he does have the ability t nuke them or anyone else if he decides to wipe a civilization off the map.

 

[ElmerMudd]

Trump: Either stop killing your people, stop threatening Israel and stop threatening US or we will kill your entire regime.

What Trump did: Killed their entire regime, eliminated their air force, their navy and 90% of their missile launchers. In 30 days. Their eye-uh-toll-uh was killed in the first seconds of the campaign. As well as 40 top commanders. IN ONE STRIKE.

Thank you Donald John Trump.

He does deserve credit for wiping out the majority of their military capabilities.
But after killing the top leaders of the regime, plenty more fanatics have filled in. Indications they are as ruthless as those killed.
He wanted to eliminate nuclear capabilities. (I thought he said he did a year ago) The radical regime still has enriched uranium.
No regime change and no eliminatin of nuclear capabilities.

Iran lost most of their military power but turned to using the straits of hormus as their bargaining chip. Now, Iranian is leveraging that power to the detriment of the world economy. That was not being done before the war.

Trump encouraged the majority of Iranians who hate the current regime to continue rioting. He said he would send help. He did wipe out the top leaders but then he bombed all of Iran where these people live.
Then he threatens to wipe out the iranian civilization that includesall of these people he said he would help.

We need to make the best of where we are, now, in the war.

With crazy, inconsistent leadership of Trump, that will not happen.

 

[1srelluc]

Iran has broken the terms. Don't let them P’anmunjŏm us like the Norks did. Trump could bomb them now. I say go.

Their precise Islamic theology is pure evil. If you don’t know, read up.

Shia Islam is about the end of times. It starts with the murder of all Jews, then infidels.

They were spending billions to achieve the means to accomplish this.....Some of which the Halfrican gave them.

 

[ElmerMudd]

And still 3 times more than the democrats 19%.

Fine, respectful Republicans or Independents are who people are looking to.
The 25th ammendment could havehim gone.

 

[ElmerMudd]

Iran has broken the terms. Don't let them P’anmunjŏm us like the Norks did. Trump could bomb them now. I say go.

Their precise Islamic theology is pure evil. If you don’t know, read up.

Shia Islam is about the end of times. It starts with the murder of all Jews, then infidels.

They were spending billions to achieve the means to accomplish this.....Some of which the Halfrican gave them.

Extremist islamic shia law is crazy and horrible. But extremist islamic leaders are still in charge and they have enriched uranium and they are using the straits of Hormus more effectively than they ever did with traditional weapons to control and leverage their position.
Trump has hurt them and helped them. We don't want to help them in any way.