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Trump: Iran Wants to Trade with U.S., ‘I’m Okay With It’, I’m Using Trade ‘to Settle Scores and to Make Peace’
Breitbart ^ | 05/16/2025 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 05/16/2025 5:15:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” President Donald Trump stated that Iran wants to trade with the U.S. and he’s fine with that, because “I’m using trade to settle scores and to make peace.”

Trump said, [relevant remarks begin around 8:30] “Iran wants to trade with us, okay, if you can believe that, and I’m okay with it. I’m using trade to settle scores and to make peace. But I’ve told Iran, we make a deal, you’re going to be really — you’re going to be very happy.”

He continued, “But, more than anything, I’ve told Iran, very simply — because I heard somebody making my case last night on television, I didn’t like it, because they were saying there’s plenty of time. There’s not plenty of time.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran
KEYWORDS: delusion; iran; make; okay; peace; scores; settle; trade; trump; us; using; wants
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Whoa what 😮🤔
1 posted on 05/16/2025 5:15:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When does the bombing begin? Money can be made by shorting stocks.


2 posted on 05/16/2025 5:28:58 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So we just need to trade with them and they don’t want to kill us anymore. Kewl!


3 posted on 05/16/2025 5:38:46 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well it’s not like the neocon way has worked might as well try something different


4 posted on 05/16/2025 5:45:58 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s happening could be the beginning of a peaceful transition in Iran.


5 posted on 05/16/2025 5:47:03 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is Trump’s vision - using economic incentives to bring countries together and bring an end conflicts. That doesn’t mean it will always work, but as an important element of his foreign policy outlook, it’s something he probably feels the need to at least try before resorting to military options.

And if Iran rejects Trump’s overtures, at least he’ll be able to point to the fact that he tried to resolve things peacefully, when his leftist critics attack him for taking military action.


6 posted on 05/16/2025 6:02:35 PM PDT by mbrfl
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I’m using trade to settle scores and to make peace

Trump is destroying the planet with peace and prosperity.

7 posted on 05/16/2025 6:13:02 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (You show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is what we did with our enemies after WWII.


8 posted on 05/16/2025 6:15:45 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If this works out, then big Yay! Yes, warmongers will be disappointed, but they’ve still got Ukraine.


9 posted on 05/16/2025 6:20:48 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Best case is they wait 4 years before resuming the jihad.

Plenty of time for them to beef up hezbollah and hamas.


10 posted on 05/16/2025 6:24:57 PM PDT by fruser1
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Good to see that Trump is done trying to deal with the mess in Ukraine - now is the time for Europeans to STEP UP.


11 posted on 05/16/2025 6:41:42 PM PDT by BobL
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No fan of Iran but threats and sanctions haven’t worked out so well for the last 45 years.


12 posted on 05/16/2025 6:47:34 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ifinnegan

Jeremiah 49 disagrees.


13 posted on 05/16/2025 6:52:19 PM PDT by roving
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dear Mr. President, please do not trust anything which comes out of the mouth of Evil, namely, Iran.


14 posted on 05/16/2025 7:00:29 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Make Iran Persian Again.

[None of this interloper, non native Mullah kr@p]


15 posted on 05/16/2025 7:06:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The MIC and CIA are going to do everything they can to prevent this... And I mean everything...


16 posted on 05/16/2025 7:12:49 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: fruser1

“Agenda Item One:”

“Slaughtering infidels is postponed until January 20th 2029.”


17 posted on 05/16/2025 7:25:14 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: CatHerd

That was over his first day in office as he promised.


18 posted on 05/16/2025 7:38:13 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: roving

And Ezekiel 38


19 posted on 05/16/2025 9:33:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: roving

God bless, BTW


20 posted on 05/16/2025 9:33:27 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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