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Posted on 06/11/2026 8:19:16 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump called into Fox News’s Fox & Friends on Thursday morning and told the hosts that he has always wanted to invade Iran’s Kharg Island, one of the country’s key energy infrastructure sites.
Trump ranted at the media coverage of the war in Iran and fumed, “The Wall Street Journal, they did an editorial today about we’re not hitting them hard enough.”
“I mean, it is just, ‘not hitting them hard enough.’ We dropped $250 million worth of bombs on them last night. The whole thing is crazy. And they’re really in submission. They just don’t know it yet, okay, to be honest with you. They just don’t know it yet,” Trump continued, adding:
We are talking to him and all, but you know, when — look, my preference has always been to take Kharg Island, and that’s been — Brian knows that, I spoke to him a long time ago, Lawrence knows it, I spoke to him a long time — we go way back. My preference would be that — I don’t know that America has a stomach for it, to be honest with you, to make a fortune, but I don’t know that America has the stomach.
I think you’d like to see us come home. But we did it with Venezuela. Venezuela’s worked out great for everybody. We’ve taken millions and millions of barrels of oil out of Venezuela. We brought them to Houston and various other places. Louisiana, we’re — you know, refineries that we have that are incredible.
They’re going 24 hours a day, making a fortune. You know, I like that in this case too, but I’m not sure that America has — a long time. You know, it’s a little longer process, something that’s a guarantee if I want to do it. But I’m not sure the country has the appetite for it. Does that make sense to you?
“I understand where you’re going–” co-host Brian Kilmeade tried to interject.
“As good as it is. By the way, as good as it is, that’s always been my number one thing, but as good as it is, I’m not sure the country has the appetite for it, and that’s okay, I understand that,” Trump continued.
In late March, speculation ramped up that the Pentagon was preparing to take Kharg Island as Trump ordered 3,000 additional U.S. ground troops to the region and Republicans close to Trump publicly called to invade the heavily fortified island. “So here’s what I tell President Trump: keep it up for a few more weeks, take Kharg Island where all of the resources they have to produce oil, control that island, let this regime die on a vine,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said at the time.
Kilmeade continued by offering praise of Trump, “I mean, what you do is — you came to power because you said America wants to win, and you won — even in 2020, more votes than anyone in the history of the Republican Party. So when you look at this, this seems to be like an anaconda, you say, in the way you lay the groundwork and suddenly just squeeze them more and more so they have no options.”
“One of the hits yesterday, as our audience probably knows, is on a water facility — they were already running out of water. So if you can continue to blockade, and now you’re taking down their eyes and ears, you’re letting them know you’re not playing games. And the rhetoric that’s been coming out of them for the last eight weeks really looks hollow today,” Kilmeade concluded.
“Well, Brian, if you can hear me — I think you can. I will say that, first of all, you mentioned 2020. You’re right, in 2020 I got more votes than anybody in the history of the Republican Party. And we got more votes, but the election was rigged. But in 2024, I really got more,” Trump replied, before pivoting to pushing his baseless claims of election rigging in California:
We made it too big to rig. But we did great in 2020 — it was a rigged election. And you saw it in California. Very interesting, if I could just divert. So the kid got, you know, the shaft — and he did — Spencer Pratt, he did really pretty damn well. And they threw him out, and it was happening to Steve Hilton, and I went on a tear. And they said it was going to be two weeks, and they’ll know about Hilton and whether or not he’s going to make it.
I went on such a tear that they approved it immediately, they approved Steve. It’s such a rigged deal, it’s so crazy. They approved him so fast because everybody was watching. And he was leading by a lot, and you saw his lead was dissipating rapidly. They were taking it away from him just like they took it away from the kid.
Watch the clip above via Fox News.
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Kibitzing about an impending attack is....ahem.....unorthodox, shall we say...but this business of talking about his "preference" to seize Kharg doesn't make sense.
If he wants it, it's done. He's the C-in-C. If he's "always" wanted to do it, why wait three months? And why the concern for what "America has the stomach" to do?
“We dropped $250 million worth of bombs on them last night”
It’s good to know where my tax dollars are being spent.
When it comes to negotiating with the Iranian regime, carrots are useless. They only understand sticks. I think Trump blathering on about taking Kharg Island is his way of telling the Iranians the only carrot I have for you to sign the deal I offered is that I won’t use the stick of taking Kharg Island from you if you sign on the dotted line. Not a bad tactic.
Ok so we send in the marines-amphibious glory redux. Take it over.
Would they or would they not be sitting ducks used for target practice?
Funny how when Trump is talking about the war lately, everyone seems to know what Trump means more than he does. 🤣🤣
The DoW has had 2 months to track the movements, positioning, and behavior of everyone still in charge in Iran. One order should put an end to this once and for all... and the world would be better for it.
It’s good to know where my tax dollars are being spent.
Iran’s 2025 oil revenue (not profit, revenue) was only 45 billion dollars.
The war that was originally supposed to last days, is morphing into a forever war. President Trump is sounding more unhinged every day.
The last war in which the Constitutional requirement for a formal declaration of war by Congress was fulfilled was World War II. Since then presidents have falsely asserted their defined role as “commander in chief” gives them the power to engage in lengthy wars costing billions of dollars and thousands of lives. It is long past time for Congress and the Supreme Court to tell the Executive Branch only Congress can declare war and commit the United States to the cost in blood in treasure a sustained war requires.
The Constitution is simple to understand. Only Congress can declare war and commit US forces to a protracted war. The president, under the Constitution, is commander in chief of the armed forces. Once a war is declared it is the president’s job to oversee and direct the use of force by the United States to achieve the objectives of the war.
Certainly the commander in chief can respond immediately if and when the United States is directly attacked as President Roosevelt did in 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The next day President Roosevelt asked Congress for a formal declaration of war and Congress recognizing the threat immediately voted to commit the nation and its people to war.
The founding fathers must be turning over in their graves looking at the current situation where the checks and balances in the Constitution for war powers have been ignored by Truman and Eisenhower (Korea); Kennedy (Cuba Bay of Pigs); Kennedy (Vietnam); Johnson (Dominican Republic & Vietnam); Nixon (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos); Ford (Vietnam); Carter (proxy war with Russia through Afghanistan); Reagan (Greneda, Libya, Nicaragua, Afghanistan), George H.W. Bush (Panama, First Gulf War), Clinton (Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo), George W. Bush (Afghanistan and Iraq), Obama (Afghanistan, ISIS in Iraq, Syria, Libya); Trump first term (Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Somalia); Biden (Ukraine proxy war against Russia, Yemen); Trump second term (Iran, Venezuela, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria).
How many of these wars conducted by US presidents actually benefited the American people? Most of these wars could not have occurred if the Constitution had been followed and Congress had voted yes or no on a Declaration of War. It is long past time for Congress to assert its responsibility under the Constitution to determine if the nation should commit its armed forces to wars in foreign lands.
Since this thing started I have worried this has been the plan. Take the island, the use the FPV drone videos of marines being exploded to manufacture consent.
After the government takes them, they're no longer "your" tax dollars.
You are too reasoned here... you rainbow flag worshipping faggot... MAGA, MAGA, MAGA
“Since I was just a little boy growing up in Flushing, I have always dreamed of invading Kharg Island.”
Let's hope he keeps listening to them.
That would expose them to being picked off like shooting fish in a barrel, and at a far less expense, as well.
So, no they would not be sitting ducks used for target practice or yes they would be. It all depends upon who "they" are. American military members = no Iranain IRGC = yes. 😁🤙
Apparently too reasoned for you, as all you can do is respond with name calling. “rainbow flag worshipping faggot”...are you still in junior high?
That’s what I’ve been thinking.
Obviously -- you can't take something without actually having troops there. Trump also said that having Kharg Island would be a way of making money, which you can't do unless you have troops there as well.
It would be like shooting fish in a barrel for the Iranians -- a terrible military idea.
And by “you’ he means his family and cronies
“..........is morphing into a forever war. “
I don’t trust either party anymore. Politicians lie to get elected.
Very good post.
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