BREAKING: Trump is Now "DEMANDING" Former Allies Help With Operation Epstein Fury In Iran

[ribrepin]

This morning on CNN’s State of the Union, UN Ambassador Mike Waltz delivered one of the more delusional sentences uttered by a Trump official in recent memory — which, given the competition, is genuinely impressive.

“President Trump is calling upon the world, saying the entire world is affected. Iran can’t hold your economies hostage, and we certainly welcome, encourage and even demand their participation to help their own economies.”

The same administration that spent the last year calling Europe pathetic, threatening to annex Canada, tariffing allies into recession, pulling out of every multilateral agreement it could find, publicly humiliating NATO partners, and treating the rules-based international order like a suggestion box — is now demanding those same countries help escort ships through a strait that’s only closed because Trump and Netanyahu started a war nobody asked for.

This is the geopolitical equivalent of burning your neighbour’s fence down and then demanding they help you with the insurance claim.

My Dad, Jimmy Blundell, who once advised me to “never beat the horses you need to help you win the race,” comes to mind.
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-is-now-demanding-former

[Roy Rolling]

2. I'm not a Trump Ally, Either

I’m an American, not a Trump American. Not a MAGA American.

I’m not asking America’s traditional allies to be fools like Trump’s MAGA America—MAGAts don’t speak for me.

Thank you Australia for the supportive “fuck you” to the problem child causing the whole world’s suffering.

[ribrepin]

5. They don't have to jump on Suicide train with us

I don't expect them too. My son a three-time Trump voter actually called and said he couldn't believe he voted for him 3 times. I'm finding out now that war is a big issue for him and Trump made promises.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. He has thoroughly f*cked himself

by scaling back diplomacy and foreign assistance, alienating our closest allies, and destroying the international networks and relationshipy that the US spent decades building after WWII.

By surrounding himself with none but incompetent and servile minions, along with RRW xtofascists, he is also screwing the American people and endangering the world.

NO PITY!! NONE!!!

I am STILL MOST ANGRY with ANYONE who voted for this POS or who enabled either of his "elections" in 2016 and 2024:

[enid602]

4. Operation Einstein

I read your op as ‘operation Einstein, not ‘operation Epstein.’ Kinda works.

[ribrepin]

6. I didn't write it

It was written by a guy named Dean Blundell on substack. He's a Canadian and I like the way he turns a phrase. You're right about "Operation Einstein" as in Operation Einstein - what a bunch of geniuses.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Chutzpah

[democrank]

8. Mike Waltz's use of the word "demand" is laughable.

What is Trump….king?

[modrepub]

9. The Reality Is

The international community must get commerce flowing again on the Gulf. It’s how they accomplish that that’s the question.

Either it’s a US based construction where all interested parties join together and confront the Iranians. Or a China-India-Russian aligned one that seeks cooperation with Iran while excluding those countries aligned with the US.

The second option seems far fetched in my mind because it’s not clear if Iran could be that discerning with its attacks given how degraded its military is at making centralized decisions. But if this option can be pulled off and the US and Israel are isolated then the folks who have to make had choices are the Gulf States and Europe.

And I’ll note not only are world oil prices spiking so are the US 10-year bond rates. The later is an indication confidence in our ability to finance our debt is taking a hit.

[2naSalit]

10. The best answer for this nightmare...

[Skittles]

11. didn't he say he already WON

these incompetent assholes cannot keep their stories straight

[tanyev]

12. Well then you shouldn't have spent the last few weeks insulting them, jackass.

Sorry, Sir Jackass.


😒

[Johnny2X2X]

13. The whole world hates the USA now

And Trump is going to use this to hurt NATO. He's going to make this seem like NATO has an obligation to help under Article 5, but they don't, we weren't attacked here, we attacked. As usual, Russia is the big winner in all of this, their oil is now being sold to fund the Ukraine war, and NATO will be weakened further at their request.

[C_U_L8R]

14. "Cram a tanker, Tarriff Clown"

I suspect they said some variation of such.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Foreign countries haven't exactly rushed to answer the American president's call for assistance. Imagine that. https://b

Foreign countries haven’t exactly rushed to answer the American president’s call for assistance. Imagine that.

So to sum up:
1. Trump alienates/insults allies
2. he launches an unnecessary war with no international legitimacy
3. he declares war “over,” dismisses need for allies’ help
4. he sees the war go sideways
5. he “demands” allies help us solve a problem he said doesn’t exist
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-16T13:42:17.264Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/after-alienating-allies-and-declaring-victory-trump-demands-foreign-help-in-war

During the first week of the war in Iran, multiple British news outlets reported that the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier was preparing for possible deployment to the Middle East to assist the United States and Israel. Seven days into the conflict, however, Donald Trump, who has a habit of insulting and alienating our closest allies, used his social media platform to deliver a message to leaders in the U.K.: Don’t bother.

“The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,” the American president wrote. “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”...

After claiming in an NBC News interview that unnamed countries had already committed to helping secure the strait — a dubious assertion, given the circumstances and available information — the Republican “demanded” that foreign nations step up and provide the U.S. with the kind of security assistance he recently said was unnecessary.

Trump on Strait of Hormuz: "Really, I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory ... they should help us. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn't be there at all, because we don't need it. We have a lot of oil."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-16T01:05:29.715Z

.....Indeed, the series of events seems preposterous. After spending the last year alienating U.S. allies, Trump launched an unnecessary war with no international legitimacy. He then prematurely declared victory, while simultaneously dismissing the need for international assistance, all while characterizing the Strait of Hormuz as a problem that’s already been solved.

It was at this point that the same American president, without explanation, turned on a dime and started demanding assistance from the same countries he’s insulted to address a problem he’s claimed doesn’t exist.

Foreign countries haven’t exactly rushed to answer Trump’s call for help, and Australian and Chinese officials have already rejected U.S. outreach. Imagine that.

[City Lights]

16. They should all give him the finger. nt

[Tree Lady]

17. All of the leaders have met before

Without Trump, and with this I can see them saying in secret, this can be our way to take him down, everyone refuse to help him and this sinks his presidency.

[Takket]

18. You broke it, you bought it drumpf

The rest of the world is telling him to go fuck himself. Why doesn’t Kegseth and his warriors ethos figure this out if he is so smart???