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highplainsdem

(56,827 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:11 PM Monday

MeidasTouch: 🚨 NEWS: Trump has requested that the National Security Council be prepared in the situation room for his

return, per Fox


🚨 NEWS: Trump has requested that the National Security Council be prepared in the situation room for his return, per Fox

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-06-17T00:08:53.525Z
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MeidasTouch: 🚨 NEWS: Trump has requested that the National Security Council be prepared in the situation room for his (Original Post) highplainsdem Monday OP
Is he going to make them go around the room and say nice things about him, badhair77 Monday #1
He didn't like how the soldiers marched newdeal2 Monday #5
Lol badhair77 Monday #14
true vapor2 Monday #24
If this happens and Tehran-- a city of 9.8 million and 16.8 million including suburbs is bombed hlthe2b Monday #2
We could be at war before morning Ponietz Monday #3
Probably a bunker buster going in to bomb the deeply buried nuke material that allegorical oracle Monday #17
That already happened prior to your post. Melon Monday #28
No Ponietz Monday #29
As will China and Russia. roamer65 Monday #23
Butthurt narcissist lashes out. C_U_L8R Monday #4
Trump is laboring under the delusion (among many), that the country will rally around a "wartime" president. CincyDem Monday #6
Well, he can kiss the Nobel Peace Prize goodnight. nt allegorical oracle Monday #18
Oh No. He will fully expect a Nobel Peace Price Norbert Monday #22
He could have a sundowner all over them. With any luck all the sane participants could wait til morning... Hekate Monday #7
Ruse? Starbeach Monday #8
Be sure to have his late dinner prepared--probably steak and chocolate cake with all the goodies. riversedge Monday #9
Two scoops. CentralMass Monday #15
I Wonder if he has a good taster WiVoter Monday #19
Isn't McDonalds his favorite meal? LisaL Monday #21
It's all theater. Raven123 Monday #10
Agree. He needed cover for bailing on the G7 Strelnikov_ Monday #35
Does this mean kennyperkins Monday #11
We sent all those tankers as well, and then there's Trump's warning to evacuate Tehran. D. Spaulding Monday #12
I didn't think he had a National Security Council stillcool Monday #13
More like the Nut Squad. CentralMass Monday #16
Bombs away - polls are bad, and these bozo leaders are being uncowed, *GOING*! UTUSN Monday #20
He must have got his feelings hurt. Nobody want to hear him whine. nt Hotler Monday #25
He's gonna bomb Canada because Mark Carney interrupted his whine fest today. 2MuchNoise Monday #26
Oh...the SITUATION ROOM! GenThePerservering Monday #27
Little fefes hurt at G7, by chance? SheltieLover Monday #30
'Who's Who on Trump's National Security Council?' sop Monday #31
Tankers must all be in position Red Mountain Monday #32
Putin has issued his marching orders. Tootbsb Monday #33
Is he confusing them with the Secret Service? milestogo Monday #34

badhair77

(4,898 posts)
1. Is he going to make them go around the room and say nice things about him,
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:14 PM
Monday

like the cabinet members. He’s been over 24 hours without a praise choir.

newdeal2

(3,013 posts)
5. He didn't like how the soldiers marched
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:16 PM
Monday

He’s telling them to launch a full investigation.

hlthe2b

(110,352 posts)
2. If this happens and Tehran-- a city of 9.8 million and 16.8 million including suburbs is bombed
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:15 PM
Monday

by conventional or (Gawd, forbid) nuclear weapons, Israel is all but self-destructed. Likewise, the US becomes the pariah of the world.

allegorical oracle

(5,172 posts)
17. Probably a bunker buster going in to bomb the deeply buried nuke material that
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:39 PM
Monday

everybody seems to know they have stored. Trump and Bibi make quite a team.

Ponietz

(3,946 posts)
29. No
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 09:25 PM
Monday

Israel hasn’t yet used bunker busters. The U.S. has the trigger for those.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/16/world-news/israel-might-need-americas-weapons-to-topple-irans-fordow-nuclear-fortress-expert/

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/16/air-forces-bunker-buster-bomb-could-take-out-iran-nuclear-facility-israel-hints-other-options.html

The entire Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the spinning centrifuges deep underground at the Fordow enrichment facility south of Tehran are left untouched, the former head of U.S. Central Command said Monday.

"I take it at face value when the Israelis say if Fordow is untouched when they're finished, they would regard it as a failure" of Operation Rising Lion, which began last Friday with wide-ranging airstrikes against Iran's air defenses, military facilities and key leaders, retired Marine Gen. Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie said in a Middle East Institute panel discussion.

Former CIA and National Security Council official Ken Pollack, the panel's moderator, said he had been told by Israeli officials that, "If this ends with Fordow still functioning, we have not achieved our objectives."

Even as Fordow remains a high priority for the Israelis, the facility has been relatively untouched thus far, McKenzie said. "I'm certain they're gonna get round to Fordow," he said, but how the Israelis could attack and destroy a facility believed to be protected by reinforced concrete a half-mile underground was unclear.

C_U_L8R

(47,564 posts)
4. Butthurt narcissist lashes out.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:16 PM
Monday

Runs home in a pouty rage to break things and destroy the world

This may be the last and only opportunity for his cabinet
to invoke the 25th and protect the nation.
Unfortunately, they're as mad and corrupt as Trump.

CincyDem

(7,132 posts)
6. Trump is laboring under the delusion (among many), that the country will rally around a "wartime" president.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:20 PM
Monday

History may say so but not this time TACO.

Norbert

(7,108 posts)
22. Oh No. He will fully expect a Nobel Peace Price
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:49 PM
Monday

As in peace through strength.

If Carney ends up with it he will go full defcon.

Hekate

(98,232 posts)
7. He could have a sundowner all over them. With any luck all the sane participants could wait til morning...
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:20 PM
Monday

…to have a translation of his babble & confirm of any “plans.”

Otherwise…


riversedge

(76,170 posts)
9. Be sure to have his late dinner prepared--probably steak and chocolate cake with all the goodies.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:23 PM
Monday

D. Spaulding

(256 posts)
12. We sent all those tankers as well, and then there's Trump's warning to evacuate Tehran.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:27 PM
Monday

I wonder if that means that Israel is about to launch a massive, devastating attack on the city, in an attempt at getting the people to overthrow the regime?

stillcool

(34,324 posts)
13. I didn't think he had a National Security Council
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:29 PM
Monday
May 27, 2025
After Mike Waltz Exit, Trump Slashes NSC Staff
https://instituteforglobalaffairs.org/2025/05/after-mike-waltz-exit-trump-slashes-nsc-staff/
On May 23, the Trump White House enacted a major overhaul of the National Security Council (NSC). These layoffs come just three weeks after President Trump removed Michael Waltz from the role of national security adviser and appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the position.

Despite its outsized power in Washington, the National Security Council is not well known to the general public, which is why the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group has been closely tracking personnel moves and how they translate into policy.

Many of the senior NSC staff profiled in IGA’s in-depth resource — Who’s Who on Trump’s National Security Council — have now been pushed out of their roles. Among those reported to be departing are Principal Deputy National Security Adviser Alex Wong, Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa Eric Trager, Senior Director for Europe Andrew Peek, as well as communications team members like Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Brian Hughes. Some of these staffers are likely to be reshuffled to other agencies.
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Details are emerging on how the NSC will look after its makeover. “Some of the teams on the council that focus on specific regions or issues will be gutted, while others will be collapsed and folded into others. Still other teams will cease to exist,” The New York Times reported.

UTUSN

(74,554 posts)
20. Bombs away - polls are bad, and these bozo leaders are being uncowed, *GOING*!
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:43 PM
Monday

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