Soon after President Trump and Pete Hegseth launched their “excursion” into Iran, a fundraising email was sent out to MAGA supporters, announcing a “massive and ongoing operation” against that country, with a warning that “Democrats want to see us divided.” It encouraged supporters not to “stay silent at this moment,” and to support Trump personally by supporting US troops in carrying out Trump’s new war. The email begins, “It’s Team Trump, and we’re asking every SINGLE Trump supporter who stands with President Trump and our brave US troops in carrying out this mission to let us know by signing the Official Trump Supporter List NOW.” You guessed it! The “supporter list” is a donation form to send cash for Trump’s campaign cash flow — and to support US troops in the process? Trump is calling attention to our military that he placed in harm’s way, in a supposed bipartisan duty, to link their deployment and military actions to his partisan cash grifting. Hardly ethical, you think?

This is all a part of a Trump call for “Team Effort,” as he asks other countries to help him secure the Hormuz Strait out of responsibility — to do their part to get him out of a jam. The US “decimated” Iran, so they owe us, but then failing to mention that the only thing decimated is the taxpayers’ wallets. The president has alienated other countries with his insults, his disrespectful comments, and has dismissed them and pushed them away with unfair tariffs to the point that his depravity disgusts them — a storm cloud in his own private Idaho, as Bocha Blue writes on the Palmer Report. Trying to turn things around isn’t working for him, as he had no plan to start with. His childlike confusion and misjudgment on tariffs broke the US economy which is now in worse shape with soaring gas prices, and consumer goods becoming less affordable as economic growth hits a downward spiral. And despite the ‘Help me!‘ sign he’s waving, even a red-tipped white cane and dark glasses will do Humpty Trumpy no good.

Bill Palmer says Trump appeared even dumber last week, when he attempted to highlight the fact that he gifted his cabinet members with new shoes — probably from a closeout sale, so sizing didn’t matter. Palmer mentions an interview the president did with Jake Paul, an actor and professional boxer, with an internet presence. Palmer says Paul is also famous for being an idiot, so the interview was likened to a Richard Nixon sit-down with the Three Stooges, who he reminds us were merely actors. In the interview, Trump claimed that as many as seventeen hundred Iranian sleeper cells existed in the US — news that we could have used sooner, exclaims Palmer — so, perhaps Trump, Noem, and Bovino could have used their thugs to smoke out the sleeper cells instead of rounding up Hispanic-looking people and murdering white onlookers. Palmer points to Benjamin Netanyahu for giving Trump the sleeper cell rumor, but that we shouldn’t worry regardless, with Jake Paul’s entry into the case.

Daily Dose of Democracy says the war has finished its third week with no end in sight, even with Trump asking for global ‘partners’ to help secure the Hormuz Strait against a “decimated Iran” to release oil tankers to guarantee the global energy supply. President ‘No New Wars’ Trump thumbed his nose at US intelligence, thanks to ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, and threatening supposed close allies with an “or else” demand is getting him nowhere in cleaning up his mess. Former US allies are forming new partnerships without us because of the chaos, the instability, and the reckless handling of the Iran conflict. Recently Trump remarked that he would know the Iran war was over when he “feels it in his bones,” but we shouldn’t feel assured since he probably is waiting for his bone spurs to reappear.

Satirist Andy Borowitz offers his take on Trump’s Iran debacle: “Washington – Confirming the suspicions of many in the international community, on Monday Donald J. Trump revealed that intelligence played ‘no role’ in his decision to go to war with Iran. ‘People keep asking me about intelligence,’ he told reporters on Air Force One. ‘I made this call with no intelligence whatsoever. Quite frankly, every decision I’ve ever made in my life I’ve made without intelligence,’ he boasted. ‘Intelligence is for losers.’ Trump added that ‘I don’t trust people who have intelligence, which is why I love Pete.””

Australian Richard Quick posted on Quora: “Alright, this one’s for the MAGA crowd. Sit down, shut up, and pay attention because I’m only going to explain this once and I’m using small words so the flag emoji patriots can follow along. Your boy just let the International Energy Agency announce the biggest emergency oil release in its 50 year history. 400 million barrels. Pooled together from 32 countries. And your lot lost your collective minds like Daddy just saved the world. Let’s do the math that none of you peanuts can do: The world uses about 105 million barrels of oil a day. That means your big beautiful release is less than four days of global supply. That’s not a solution…that’s a long weekend. The entire IEA strategic reserve across all 32 countries is only 1.2 billion barrels, so this one release just burned through a third of the whole planet’s emergency safety net in one go. One crisis. One third of the cupboard…gone.”

Quick continues: “But it gets dumber. Keep up. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Twenty percent of the world’s oil flows through that strait, right now none is moving. Citigroup estimates somewhere between 11 and 16 million barrels a day is being choked off the market. So even if you’re just trying to plug the gap from the strait, 400 million barrels buys you roughly a month. But it gets dumber. America’s share of this is coming from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which only holds 415 million barrels right now. That’s 58% of capacity because your guy never actually refilled the thing despite telling you he did. If the US shoulders the biggest chunk of this release, your tank is basically empty. And then what happens when the NEXT crisis hits? Because there’s always a next one.”

Quick’s post adds: “And the US can only physically pump oil out of the reserve at 4.4 million barrels a day, and it takes 13 days from a presidential order before a single barrel reaches the market. So even if they turned on the taps right now, the cavalry doesn’t arrive for two weeks and when it does it can’t keep up with the shortfall. Meanwhile the bloke who started the war that closed the strait in the first place is on local TV In Cincinnati going ‘we’ll reduce it a little bit then fill it up again,’ like he’s talking about the fuel tank on his golf cart. And you clapped. You actually clapped. This isn’t a rescue plan. It’s a press release designed to keep the stock market calm for 48 hours. A band-aid on an arterial bleed. Thirty two countries just torched a third of the world’s emergency oil supply because your president started a war he can’t finish, and if this drags past summer, the cupboard is bare, prices are in triple digits, and there is no Plan B. So, yeah champ, pop a Bud Light. Slap a bumper sticker on it. The adults are definitely in charge.”

HuffPost’s Lee Moran calls our attention to The New York Times‘ editorial board’s damning assessment of Trump’s false claims about the US-Israeli attack on Iran in an opinion piece that warns of the dangers of an ultimate backfire. There’s nothing new about the conflict in the president’s “stream of falsehoods,” since “Lying is standard behavior for Mr. Trump, of course,” the board suggests, noting the 30,000 misleading or untruthful claims from his first term as compiled by The Washington Post. The Times’ board argues that, “Lying about war is uniquely corrosive, creating a culture in which deadly mistakes and even war crimes can become more common, ultimately undermining American values and interests.”

The editorial board acknowledges, “There is reasonable debate to have about the wisdom of this war, given what is described as Iran’s ‘murderous’ government and threats to people at home and abroad. But Trump is not making that case, and is just lying about the reasons for the war and about its progress, in an attempt to disguise his poor planning and the war’s questionable basis.” Trump and his MAGA mob have given so many different answers for the various aspects of the incursion, what its actual objectives are, and how long it’s projected to last, that they’ve run out of fingers on which to count motives. Pointing to past conflicts, the board says that Vietnam and Iraq should have reminded leaders that falsehoods can boomerang on the perpetrators who tell them. “Whatever short-term gain Mr. Trump thinks he is getting by lying about the war in Iran is far exceeded by the cost to him, the country, and the world,” the Times concludes.

In one of his unhinged threats to Iran, last week Trump threatened to take out the country’s electrical grid and energy infrastructure “after 48 hours” if they didn’t capitulate and open the Hormuz Strait for oil tanker access. However, the threatened strikes were postponed when Trump announced that talks had made Iran “keen to make a deal.” “Major points of agreement” were said to have been reached, but Iran’s media poured cold water on the president’s announcement, saying there has been no “direct or indirect communication” between parties. After Trump’s post on social media, oil prices declined and the stock market responded positively, but many remained skeptical about the accuracy of the president’s comments. His claim that US envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were in touch with “a top person” representing Iran for the backchannel talks — not Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

President Trump claims that “regime change” is underway in light of the peace talks — an unidentified leader, Trump calling him “the most respected, and the leader,” who gets five days to produce results, or “we’ll just keep bombing our little hearts out.” Khamenei hasn’t been seen since he was selected to take his father’s place, and as far as his control goes, most believe the Revolutionary Guard are calling the shots. Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, says he has spoken to Hakan Fidan, his Turkish counterpart who has served as an intermediary in negotiations between Tehran and Washington, with Trump claiming that it’s difficult to find somebody to talk with since most of the Iranian leadership has been wiped out. John Byrne of Raw America says, “The question of whether this ends well for Iran is open. The US has significant military advantages it hasn’t fully deployed. But what isn’t open is whether this war is going the way Trump promised. It isn’t. And everyday the strait stays closed, Iran’s leverage grows.”

Anthony Davis on Substack, says Trump is demented and deluded, and thinks he’s hosting a reality show. Trump developed some “swagger in his real estate dealings, being performative, a little slippery, and often effective,” but that same instinct doesn’t transplant onto international diplomacy. “It doesn’t make you a savvy negotiator — it makes you unreliable, sometimes dangerously so,” says Davis. Therein lies the problem with Trump’s claims that the US is engaged in productive conversations with Iran, with Tehran’s complete denial of any talks. In a real estate deal or on a reality show such as The Apprentice, this might work, but right now, “those decisions are not abstract. The backdrop here is an active conflict: airstrikes, missile attacks, threats to obliterate infrastructure, and warnings of a regional escalation. In that environment, words are not cheap. They are signals. When a president says talks are underway and progress is being made, it suggests de-escalation,” observes Davis.

If those talks don’t exist, the signal is false — it’s destabilizing — and intermediaries trying to broker something real are left to clean up the narrative mess, and Iran has every incentive to dig in further rather than play along with a fiction resembling a reality TV show with no commercial breaks. Davis asserts, “Credibility, in this context, is currency. Not a moral virtue, not even trust in the traditional sense, but predictability. Other actors need to believe that when you say something publicly, it roughly corresponds to reality. That doesn’t mean full transparency — diplomacy often requires secrecy — but it does mean avoiding statements that are flatly contradicted by the other side. When that baseline collapses, every future statement is discounted.” It signals that there may be no real process at all, especially since Trump said just last week that we have no one to talk to since we’ve killed them all.

It is impossible to close a “deal” with a country that insists no deal is being discussed, and if those claims drift from the truth, the cost is embarrassment, confusion, miscalculation, and escalation. Davis concludes, “If there is a path out of a conflict as volatile as this one, it will to be paved with bravado. It will require quiet channels, verifiable steps, and a level of message discipline that resists the urge to declare victory before a conversation has even begun. Anything less isn’t negotiation. It’s performance — and Trump just wants to be the star of the show.”

Even without a resolution on the Iran war, Trump is rubbing his hands together about his next target. Talking to reporters, he said, “Cuba’s a failed nation. Cuba also wants to make a deal and I think we will pretty soon — make a deal or do whatever we have to do. I think something will happen with Cuba pretty quickly.” Being cut off from its oil supply from Venezuela which is  now under US control, the country has had rolling blackouts and suspended air links. Cuba has been existing under a 1960s embargo emplaced by the US, with only hit and miss support from Russia or China, so Trump is ready to carry out a “friendly takeover” of the island as a neighborly gesture to ease their pain — and find Castro’s stash of gold. Thom Hartmann of Raw America says, “We need to understand what’s really happening here. It’s not just foreign policy. It’s a pattern of a president who’s discovered he can use military force without consequence, without congressional pushback, and without a media willing to challenge him. Once a democracy lets that become normal, it’s very hard to walk it back.” See you in C-U-B-A!

Borrowing a line from comedian Steven Wright who said, “The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese,” we might classify President Donald Trump as the early bird in his June 2025 bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities. However, as the first mouse, the president is caught in his own trap, as Benjamin Netanyahu sweeps in to claim his prize of deciding who gets credit for initiating the second incursion into Iran — in the planning stages since November. As John Stoehr of The Editorial Board states, our ally put Trump in a no-win situation toward launching an illegal war, though Trump could have condemned Netanyahu after the fact; but, apparently the appeal of being in a war had a greater influence on the commander of the world’s mightiest military. Allowing the foreign head of state to lead him around by the nose has resulted in a plethora reasons for entering into combat, and no matter how unconvincing those reasons put forth by him and his cabinet may be, it still draws attention — in the views of many — that Trump is probably not entirely in charge. It’s like Netanyahu told him, “I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.”

That viewpoint is problematic for many in Congress who declare that if Trump was not acting in our self-defense, then this is a war of choice which did not receive the consent of that governing body. Now, Trump will have to explain himself, risking his being held accountable for consumer prices, the rocky Wall Street situation, and chaos and destruction all around the Middle East as the war spreads. The best White House rationale for the war is that the US was forced to attack, because if Iran was forced to defend itself against a lone Israeli attack, they would also launch attacks on US facilities in the region. Trump asserted to CNN that in his opinion “Iran was going to attack first if the US didn’t.” If the MAGA crowd has faith in this lie, Trump will have affirmed his dominance. If he’s seen as Netanyahu’s puppet, this will be problematic far beyond the abstract debates in Congress over war powers. The problem the president has initiated for himself is not rooted in high-minded principles like freedom and national sovereignty, but in conspiracy theory and antisemitism — terms given the veneer of respectability by right-wing intellectuals and gullible reporters.

The largely ignored isolationist group, America First Committee, has an unshakeable belief in a global Jewish conspiracy against America, which was beneath the drive to release the Epstein files in the 2024 presidential campaign. Trump represented the God-sent hero to fulfill a prophecy to save America from a secret cabal of powerful Jews involved in sex-trafficking young girls to untouchable elites, with Jeffrey Epstein heading this syndicate. John Stoehr says, “Once reelected, Trump was supposed to bring them all to justice. When he didn’t, he triggered a crisis of faith that can be registered in polling that lumps him in with the rest of the ‘wealthy elites’ who act with impunity for the law — the so-called ‘Epstein class.'” However, these supporters can shift from anti-war to pro-war as smoothly as has the president; but not being rooted in high-minded principles — only Jew-hate — supporters are not going to warm up to the appearance of an American president seeming to take orders from the leader of a Jewish state. Instead, they might see Trump doing to believers in America First what he has done to supporters who demanded the release of the Epstein files. Thus, the president’s lie that he forced Netanyahu’s hand. Yet, this assertion of dominance is compounded by his heel-turn in the Epstein files case — the crisis of faith within MAGA leaves a growing suspicion that instead of destroying the global Jewish conspiracy against America, he has joined it.

The host of Anchor Watch on Lincoln Square, retired Navy commander Bobby Jones, offered his opinion on a week’s worth of warfare with Iran: “It’s important that people understand this is not going to be something that is a shot-term or easy operation to get out from under. If we’re not careful, it’s going to make Afghanistan and Iraq look like a church picnic.” To emphasize the lack of leadership, Jones says, “Depending on which one of the three — Trump, Hegseth, or Rubio — you’re talking to, you get a different justification for why these actions are taking place, which is a telltale sign that strategically, people are not aligned across the board.” Donald Trump’s claims of an imminent Iranian threat are so unbelievable that the Associated Press had given him personal ownership of the fiasco, reporting that Republicans in Congress stopped a war-powers vote last week concluding efforts to end ‘Donald Trump’s war against Iran.’ Pete Hegseth, obviously replaying one of his favorite video games, said, “This was never meant to be a fair fight. And it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.”

The Raw America blog reports that as President Trump was threatening Iran with annihilation on Truth Social, the “White House was quietly doing something that should alarm every mayor, police chief, and sheriff in America: blocking the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center from warning local law enforcement that his war has raised the terror threat on American soil.” The Daily Mail reported that the three agencies had prepared a five-page joint intelligence bulletin entitled ‘A Public Safety Awareness Report: Elevated Threat in the United States During US-Iran Conflict’ to send to state and local authorities. Detailed were elevated threats from Iranian government operatives, Iranian proxies, threats to Jewish and Israeli institutions, and the danger that radicalized individuals of varying ideologies might use as cover for their violence. Local law enforcement will never know how to respond because the bulletin never went out — Department of Homeland Security gave the White House a heads-up beforehand and Trump’s cronies put it on hold.

The White House didn’t deny killing the bulletin, with spokeswoman Abigail Jackson offering that the administration was “ensuring information being disseminated is accurate, up to date, and has been properly vetted.” A senior DHS official slammed the decision with, “They don’t want anything getting out that says what they’re doing in Iran is raising the threat level at home.” Such bulletins are meant to be politically untouched — neutral, fact-based, and issued without White House input. Such speculation was borne out in an Austin, Texas bar after Operation Epic Fury was launched, when a gun-toting supporter of the Iranian regime opened fire, killing three people and wounding fifteen before law enforcement dispatched him. Following the incident, FBI Director Kash Patel placed counterterrorism teams on high alert nationwide. As Raw America says, “The threat is real. The bulletin was real. And the White House sat on it.”

Hegseth’s accusations against the Islamic Republic that it is “hell-bent on prophetic Islamic delusions,” and Rubio’s statement that the country needed to be attacked now because “that entire regime is led by radical clerics who make decisions based on their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one,” stand in contrast to the executors of the war which phrase the conflict in apocalyptic terms of their own — that they are fulfilling the promises of their own holy books, and that their justice is in fact God’s. As Séamus Malekafzali, journalist and writer focusing on Middle East politics, writes in The Nation, “Both the US and Israel have long asserted the right to commit imperial violence with impunity, while expecting other countries to pay a high price if they do the same. Now that double standard is being applied to the idea of holy war itself. Theocracy, it would seem, is wrong only when some people do it. To play an old trope: ‘The apocalyptic prophecies are coming from inside the house.‘”

The Raw America site exposes the central horror of this moment: “Plainly, we are fighting a war under the direction of a man whose motivations nobody — not his allies, not his Cabinet, not the people who work for him every single day — can fully explain. Trump has made something of a brand out of this. He brags, openly, that nobody knows what he’s going to do because he doesn’t know what he’s going to do. In a previous life, in a different kind of man, that might be strategic ambiguity. In Donald Trump, it is simply the truth.” As for the people around him, Marco Rubio wears the expression of a man who has realized the building is on fire. JD Vance has pivoted so many times he’s lost track of which direction he’s facing. And even Benjamin Netanyahu, after wanting American military action for decades, has the energy of a man attempting to cash a check before the bank changes its mind.

It comes down to one person who understands Trump most clearly — Jared Kushner — who is not in the government but is likely running foreign policy for his father-in-law. Jared collecting a $2B investment from a Saudi-backed fund after leaving office in Trump’s first tenure, earned Trump’s respect, despite not being a pART of the DEAL — or was he? The Donald’s reaction was  blissful unawareness in his expression of satisfaction: “Jared can really work the Arabs. They like Jews to handle the money.” For some — who question what Trump sees in this war — it has nothing to do with strategic interest, security, or regional stability, but something far simpler: what’s in it for him! The oil in Iran (which the Israelis are burning, to his horror), reconstruction money, and Persian Gulf sovereign wealth funds looking for a post-war landscape to invest in. Perhaps Trump can’t explain why he’s taken us to war, but his son-in-law will figure out what it all means and how to profit from it.

As Steve Schmidt tells us in The Warning, “Only a fool would be surprised to discover that Jared Kushner is at the center of a growing scandal around highly sensitive national security matters — a torrent of corruption that follows in the footsteps of Kushner and Trump’s Middle East negotiator, Steve Witkoff.” Schmidt says it is stunning, with no words to adequately describe the depravity of the theft and their betrayal of the USA, as the full details of the sale of America’s most sensitive computer chips to the UAE become known. It is estimated that the Trump and Witkoff families pocketed $187 million and $31 million, respectively, in the sellout of American security, not in a corrupt business deal, but in an act of espionage. While The New York Times detailed Kushner’s $2 billion deal in April 2022, no one seemed to care, but Schmidt calls the corruption so gargantuan that it is beyond comprehension.

Trump has shattered every convention and tradition that requires dignity and integrity, while obliterating the law, duty, responsibility and obligation. Even the honor of being twice-elected to the presidency only bolstered his belief that his temporary power was a license to take, steal, smash, punish, destroy and avenge, with the current term experiencing his unleashing of cruel Gestapo-like secret police to terrorize the American people. Kushner has been an abhorrent contributor to American decline and division over the last eleven years, a sinister and corrupt figure who perfectly represents the fantastical levels of corruption that have engulfed Washington, DC in the Trump years. Schmidt describes Kushner as a soft-handed and fragile-boned child of privilege, whose only skill is the flattery of sociopathic egos. His family’s wealth obscured his mediocrity as he entered Harvard University, before diving into the “jungles of Manhattan” where he continued to prove that any child of an indulgent billionaire parent can make it anywhere…’New York, New York!‘

Kushner’s failed business decisions found him drifting into the Oval Office with Donald Trump, where they have done more damage to the US than any people since Secession, adding $6.7 trillion to the national debt, but parlaying $2.4 billion in personal income into their pockets. Anything and everything was for sale, with the American people being cut out of the equation, as the government was only for the Trump Crime Syndicate and the MAGA movement, with Kushner serving as an “informal advisor.” The ‘advisor’ was denied a security clearance, failing background investigations, as security officials deemed him untrustworthy and not to be trusted with classified information. Not a problem for father-in-law Don who then gave him the highest level security clearances, leading the classified-briefings-loving Jared to request them more often than any staff member as he began his flitting around the world as an architect of Middle East ‘peace.’ Both Jared and wife, Ivanka Trump, were “mediocrities who were unread, inexperienced, sheltered, arrogant beyond measure, and surprisingly simple fraudsters who didn’t know very much about anything except where to look for money,” says Schmidt.

Understood by most, that the US Congress is a thoroughly broken institution, though shining through is the January 6 Committee which showed what is possible when honorable men and women come together, putting America ahead of political parties and cults of personality. Schmidt says that in this vein, the Kushner payoff deserves scrutiny by Congress, counter intelligence officials, and the media until every detail comes out. Extremist movements are always corrupt and corrupt movements always become extremist movements — the NRA and CPAC being perfect examples of this circumstance. We should all care about knowing the details of what Jared Kushner did to get this money, as well as the reasoning behind Director of National Intelligence’s Tulsi Gabbard locking away in a safe a whistleblower’s report about Kushner.

President Trump has been insisting that he must be personally involved in the process of selecting a new leader in Iran, and that the Iranians are “wasting their time” in considering the 56-year old son of the late Ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei, as the likely replacement. Trump said, “We want someone that will bring peace and harmony to Iran — Khamenei’s son is a lightweight. Potential future leaders keep dying — everyone who wants to be leader ends up dead.” There was some political dissension among leaders in Iran about the hereditary selection of the Ayatollah’s son, which resembled a clerical version of the rule of the shah who was toppled in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but the leadership of the Assembly of Experts were in favor of this appointment for prosecution of the war. So, in the end Mojtaba was chosen to be in charge of Iran’s armed forces and any decision regarding pursuit of Tehran’s nuclear program. The successor has never held any governmental post, either elective or appointive, and he is said to be even more hard-line than his father, which will put him directly in the gunsights of the Israelis, but Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and Lebanon’s Hezbollah both issued statements of support.

Trump’s pronouncement insisting on his involvement in choosing a successor was likely to complicate efforts to end the ongoing conflict, but now that Mojtaba has been selected, our president will view him as a “transitional figure” with a bullseye on his back, even as some Iranians are “chanting for his death.” The Trump administration may be willing to keep the Iranian regime in place if they accede to US demands involving the enrichment of uranium, ending their ballistic missile program, and an end to terrorist proxies around the world. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria termed Mojtaba’s appointment “a very bad sign for the war” in that Iran’s hardliners now have the upper hand, “showing that the Iranian regime is dug in.”

So we’ll just have to wait for a slithering Trump to provide us with an answer or justification for going to war, even as he demands “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” from the Iranians. Satirist Andy Borowitz offers his take on the new Iranian leader with this: “In a blistering takedown of Iran’s new Supreme Leader, on Sunday Eric Trump claimed that the late Ayatollah’s son was an incompetent idiot who only attained his position through nepotism. ‘The last thing the world needs is yet another total bonehead getting a leg up just because of who his dad is,’ Trump said. ‘If this dope’s last name was Henderson instead of Khamenei, he wouldn’t even be in the conversation.’ He added that giving someone control over massive sums of money just because he had a powerful father is ‘a recipe for disaster.’ ‘What kind of backward country showers someone with riches because of who his dad is?’ Trump asked. ‘All I can say is, congratulations, Iran: you just chose a member of the Lucky Sperm Club.'”