Trump's imaginary fantasy: "I spoke to a past president, he said "I wish I did it." But they didn't do it. I'm doing it"

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar

‪@atrupar.com‬
TRUMP: I've spoken to a certain president, who I like actually, a past president, he said, 'I wish I did it.' But they didn't do it. I'm doing it.

Q: Which president?

TRUMP: I can't tell you that. It would be very bad for his career even though he's got no career left.

TRUMP: I've spoken to a certain president, who I like actually, a past president, he said, 'I wish I did it.' But they didn't do it. I'm doing it.

Q: Which president?

TRUMP: I can't tell you that. It would be very bad for his career even though he's got no career left.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-16T17:12:25.531Z

ON EDIT, AN UPDATE:

Every Ex-President Calls BS on Trump’s Claim One Backed His War

https://www.thedailybeast.com/every-ex-president-calls-bs-on-trumps-claim-one-backed-his-war/

Donald Trump’s claim that a former president privately told him they backed his war in Iran has been denied by all four living former U.S. leaders.
Trump, 79, made the claim about a mysterious former president confiding in him no less than three times on Monday.
“For 47 years, no president was willing to do what I’m doing,“ Trump said in the White House, speaking about launching his war on Iran that has so far seen 13 American service members killed and over 200 injured or wounded.
Another 168 people, including 100 children, were killed after a drone strike on a girls’ school in Iran on the first day of the war.

[UpInArms]

1. Anus mouth opens

Shit spews out

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Yeah, sure, you effin liar.

[tanyev]

3. Hey, was it President John Barron? David Dennison?

[vapor2]

4. FFS.....Demented and delusional don

[sheshe2]

5. As in passed away?

He is hearing voices in his head again, isn't he.

[wnylib]

13. Chanelling St. Ronnie.

[unblock]

6. If I made movies,

I'd make a movie of the rise and fall of orange the menace, and I'd cast a 9-year old to play Donnie.

First he's a bratty kid and it all seems normal although he's a rotten spoiled brat.

Then he's an adult except it's the same 9-year old actor. Eventually he's president. Same 9-year old actor.


Then scenes like this make more sense. 9-year old kid claims imaginary friends on his side? And making excuses for why he can't say who it is? That makes sense coming from a 9-year old brat.

So much of everything makes so much more sense once you realize he's actually just a rotten spoiled brat on the inside.

[Skittles]

8. indeed

Trump reminds me of this boy A LOT

[unblock]

16. Yes he does indeed.

Except that kid had a very powerful skill.

Donnie? It really baffles me how so many have put up with him. I feel his whole house of cards would fall apart if only the right gentle breeze came along...

[Skittles]

18. and that right gentle breeze would blow down the entire GOP

what a bunch of suck-ups; their allegiance is to Trump and NOT America - WTF is up with THAT

ALL of them need to be questioned under oath regarding WHY all this happened, UGH!!!

[unblock]

19. And they think they're the party of alpha men leaders

They're all beta wimpy spineless gutless followers, every last one of them. They pick one among them to unite behind, in this case Donnie. He pretends to be a leader and they maintain the illusion by following him no matter what.

He convinces no one.
He inspires no one.
He opens no eyes.
He sheds light on nothing.
He changes no minds.

He appears to be a leader only because the mass of followers play this game of ignoring all that and pretending he's a great leader. Their part of the game is simply to do what he says in spite of everything so they can pretend he's a good leader.

[Skittles]

20. I really don't get it

WHAT is the incentive for the vast majority of the GOP to to behave this way? Don't they care about America at ALL - the security, the future, how the world sees us? The man is putting the WORLD in danger. WTF IS GOING ON???

[unblock]

21. They feel like they're part of an exclusive club

Turns out it's a club exclusively of suckers, but they don't realize it.

[LR3]

25. Money and power

as always

[Skittles]

32. which may all be lost in November because of what they are doing

or, to be more accurate, what they are NOT doing

[Skittles]

7. he just makes shit up

because he knows his fucked-up fans will believe him

[Miles Archer]

10. ...and it takes all of about 30 seconds to fact-check him.

He's got his "greatest hits"...like being at Ground Zero on 9/11 to help the first responders (which never happened).

And a couple of mouse clicks is all it takes. No one has to go digging. It's like, "type it into Google and there it is."

The fact-checkers are everywhere, and you're right...the MAGAts shrug it off as "fake news" because he's trained them well.

[Skittles]

14. I'll never forget the only time I watched Fox News, when it was new

"OK that's not true"......"that is BULLSHIT"......"that is true but very MISLEADING"....."that is OUT OF CONTEXT" - it just went on and on like that......took me just a few minutes to realized it was outright repuke propaganda.....I tend to think people KNOW when they hear bullshit, but MAGAts simply LIKE what they are hearing.

[haele]

9. Is he trying to say W wanted to bomb Iran?

Well, yah, but even though Shrub and the rest of the GOP liked to call Iran part of the Axis of Evil (wholly ignoring Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, and other really vicious countries) but that was based politics, not reality.
Wait, no, he did say he wasn't talking to W.

So was he talking to a Reagan Chat Bot?

On edit -after talking to my spouse, we came to the conclusion he was talking to himself in the mirror.

[Skittles]

22. nah

it's a tactic losers use to justify their poor decisions - someone else wanted to do it but *ONLY I* did it!!! Trump is pathetic, and seriously filled with shit

[Bayard]

11. Lawrence covered this as him saying he had spoken to a past Dem president about his war,

And then Presidents Biden, Obama, and Clinton all put out statements saying--no we didn't.

[LessAspin]

12. Dig Me Wust -- Dig We Must

The bar for Trump was always pretty low. Any previous incremental decline was imperceptible.

Trump appears to be in rapid decline now..

Trump on oil in Middle East: We didn’t need them before we started “dig we must.” Dig me wust is the Trump policy.

This is not a typo. He actually said "dig me wust." Also, "dig we must" was an NYC energy company's slogan in the '50s.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[MustLoveBeagles]

30. The last tweet

Is that an actual quote from 🍊 menace? 😮

[0rganism]

15. $20 on Jackson

Of all the past presidents, he seems like the most likely to tolerate F47 long enough to offer an opinion. Knocking down the east wing probably turned off a lot of recent presidential ghosts but the ones from 19th century might be okay with it. In any case we can be sure it wasn't Carter.

[FascismIsDeath]

17. LOL, there isn't a single past President living that would've talked to him that candidly in the first place.

Even W. and his advisors understood that messing with Iran was a bad idea and they initiated basically all the clusterfucking bullshit that set the scene for the state of the region today.

[Trueblue1968]

23. Trump. Is. A. Liar!!!!! He could not tell the truth if he was paid. $9763146896365784147960 To do it.

[DFW]

24. President of WHERE?

Abu Dhabi?

Some place where the “president” has less clout than the capital city’s Assistant Municipal Dog Catcher.

[LR3]

26. No, no, this time Trump is telling the truth

He spoke to past President Trump 45, who told him how manly he is and how he wished he had had the guts to embroil us in this murderous fiasco at the behest of Bibi and Putin.

Totally the truth!

[MustLoveBeagles]

31. You're correct

[Goonch]

27. ;-{) Mirror Mirror

[sboatcar]

28. I like how he never names the people he talked to that told him what he's doing is a good idea

[sinkingfeeling]

29. Must have been the ghost of St. Ronnie.