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The Art Of The Deal (Original Post) groundloop 11 hrs ago OP
Perfect! surfered 10 hrs ago #1
or should he be eating a *chicken* taco on the cover? GopherGal 10 hrs ago #2
🐣 surfered 10 hrs ago #4
The Iranians played on trump's stupidity and mental illnesses LetMyPeopleVote 10 hrs ago #3
Hell yes, they played tRump like a fiddle. groundloop 10 hrs ago #5
Trump forced his promotion... lame54 9 hrs ago #6

GopherGal

(2,971 posts)
2. or should he be eating a *chicken* taco on the cover?
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 10:21 AM
10 hrs ago

...if we're aiming for perfection, here.

LetMyPeopleVote

(183,554 posts)
3. The Iranians played on trump's stupidity and mental illnesses
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 10:26 AM
10 hrs ago

The Iranians know that trump is mentally ill and used that knowledge to get a deal

This is brilliant. Everyone knows he's crazy as his handlers deny it excessively. Iran knew what we all know & used it to their advantage. Lousy deal for us, fab move for them.

Iranians say addressing Trump’s 'mental illness' head on helped secure deal: journalist

www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2...

ScruffyR (NO LISTS!) (@scruffyr.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T16:27:16.969Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2677041558/

The United States and Iran reached a tentative agreement Sunday to bring about an end to the war, which one Iranian official involved in the negotiations credited, in part, to Tehran’s unorthodox approach to addressing what they considered to be President Donald Trump’s “mental illness.”

Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill shared a startling revelation last week that Iranian negotiators had recruited psychologists to help navigate what they believed was Trump’s “impaired mental state.” And on Monday, Scahill provided an update on Iran’s unique approach to the negotiations, which he said Tehran partially credited for Sunday’s success.

“Senior Iranian psychologists began working with the negotiating team to try to cater the messages that the Iranians were sending via mediators back to Donald Trump to try to take into account what they say as his specific mental illness and mental deficiencies,”
Scahill said in an interview with Democracy Now published on Monday.

“Almost quite clinically, they said [they] began to see this process yielding results as [they] worked with psychologists to send these communications to Donald Trump, and they credit that, in part, with getting to this point where Trump finally accepted some version of his manufactured and almost entirely false victory narrative.”

Trump’s cognitive function has come under renewed scrutiny during his second term in office, with The Washington Post reporting last week that the president was assessed by 22 medical specialists during his most recent medical checkup, a figure “nearly double the number of specialists who assessed Trump for his past medical checkups as president.” The president has also been spotted appearing to doze off during important meetings.

groundloop

(13,982 posts)
5. Hell yes, they played tRump like a fiddle.
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 11:05 AM
10 hrs ago

That was a totally unnecessary war which killed thousands of innocent people and whose only real purpose was to distract from the tRump-Epstein files.

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