Posted on 03/23/2026 9:46:46 AM PDT by thegagline
President Donald Trump floated joint control of the Strait of Hormuz and suggested he didn't know who was currently leading Iran when responding to a reporter on Monday morning.
Trump spoke to journalists on the tarmac of Palm Beach International Airport as he departed Florida after spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago and was asked by CNN's Kaitlan Collins who was in control of the Strait of Hormuz.
The President answered that the Strait would be open 'real soon' if a deal he's teased with Iran works.
'It'll be jointly controlled,' he said of the waterway.
When asked who would be jointly controlling it, Trump added, 'maybe me, maybe me.'
'Me and the ayatollah, whoever the ayatollah is, whoever the next ayatollah [is.],' the President continued.
Trump then argued that no matter what, Iran's next leader would represent 'regime change.'
Leaders of Iran's Islamic Republic named Mojtaba Khamenei the new Supreme Leader after his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the first day of Israeli and US strikes.
But Trump confirmed that it's not Khamenei who the US is negotiating with.
'We have not heard from the son,' he told reporters. 'We don't know if he's living.'
Instead the President teased that a Iran ceasefire deal was being worked out with somebody very 'respected.'
'We're dealing with some people that I find very reasonable, very solid, the people within know who they are, they're very respected, and maybe one of them will be exactly what we're looking for,' Trump said
'There's automatically a regime change,' the President added.
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Why is that stunning??
TACO Tuesday??
Keep hoping against hope, RINO...
Hmm.
Not sure how negotiations can occur if not sure who is in charge.
Stunning? Why?
It's British media. Everything they do gives a slight twist to globalist/Davos/London propaganda themes.
It's not stunning at all. Iran has no central leadership at the moment, and that's part of the plan to control oil through Hormuz, and keep Iran in an ever-shrinking box.
I'm guessing that the Daily Mail wrote the headline that way so that a casual reader could come to the conclusion that "Clueless Donald Trump is so stupid and so out of touch that he can't even name the leader of the country he's fighting against in this war. His incompetence is stunning."
TACO SURRENDER
Some other POTUS will be burdened with this NAZI problem.
“ We’re dealing with some people that I find very reasonable, very solid, the people within know who they are, they’re very respected, and maybe one of them will be exactly what we’re looking for,’ Trump said”
Sounds like a provisional government.
So our Marines headed that way will likely be going in to support the new govt?
LOL the Daily Fail and their acolytes continue to show how embarrassingly stupid they are.
Of course Trump doesn’t know, NO ONE knows, not even current, in shambles, Iranian government knows because we keep killing the raving hard-core lunatics, eventually hopefully we will get to where someone sane stands up.
The second portion of your post is my point...people in Iran probably have no clue who’s in charge...
Trump’s enemies consistently make the mistake of thinking he doesn’t know what he is doing.
Daily Mail -trash, move on.
“Why is that stunning??”
Because it’s the Daily Mail......aka click whore media outlet
???
You beat me to it...LOL!
Same thought here. He was obviously referring to the fact that the Gayatollah is in hiding and too scared to show his face.
There were also a couple of stupid questions from reporters and Trump quickly put them in their place.
Well, if this is chickening out then all other politicians are absolute pu**ies by comparison.
I’m not stuned by that at all.
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