Discussion: Iranian President Uses The R-Word To Describe 'Outrageous And Idiotic' Trump

What is ‘R-word’? From context, I guess it’s retarded, but ffs with Trump, it could be ‘republican’. It could also be ‘rapist’. This article needs amending.

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WTF is the “R-word”? Republican? Ridiculous? Rasshole? Rmoron? Rapist? (Thanks davem!) Racist?

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Rotund? Reptilian? Repugnant? Rotten? Rude? Repellent? Repulsive?

Or, worst of all, Republican?

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Presumably with a capitol “R”…

One thing is for sure, Iranians are better at calling it as it is that the whole US media.

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Somewhat OT, I see now Trump is sick of Japan ripping us off and is contemplating terminating various mutual defense and military cooperation agreements and treaties with Japan. Oh, and billing them for U.S. base operations and relocation costs.

Fast forward a year and he’ll be bitching about how hard it is to keeps tabs on China because Japan is unhelpful.

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What took him so long?

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If you click through it seems they said he was “afflicted by mental retardation.” I know the term is considered outmoded and others are preferred and required by many current style guides, but I didn’t get the memo about how it had become so offensive you might not even want to print it in a quote.

So anyway yeah. Reality is slowly North Korea-fying the anti-presidential rhetoric of our global rivals.

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Trump is doing everything he can to get headlines that are good for his brand. A sanction here and there does the trick quite nicely.

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Bibi wants us to go to war with Iran
Putin wants us to go to war with Iran
MBS wants us to go to war with Iran

It’s coming and it’s going to be a disaster blowing up in Trump’s face.

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Putin is probably upset with Japan because their negotiations on the final status of the Kuril Islands recently fell through - so he’s ordered ‘lil donnie to punish them.

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I disagree, Bibi uses Iran like Trump uses immigrants, MBS can’t go it alone against Iran-so they’re bombing the hell out of Yemen, and Putin likes to make Trump dance. And as for the Iranian President calling Trump mentally retarded then that’s just school yard taunting, in fact Trump is not, he’s just lazy, uninformed, and a bully.

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I had to read the AP link to find “afflicted by mental retardation.” They called Dotard a Retard.

My personal Generation X challenge is to finally teach myself to quit saying “retard,” out of consideration for all my GenX friends whose kids are diagnosed with something or other, before we start being triggered by “dotard” because of our parents’ advancing dementia.

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I hope not. As Russia and Iran are allies, I hope Putin is looking to just increase tensions (all the oil price rise, without the war)

Recidivist ?

Rogue ?

Rascal ?

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I don’t believe any of Trump’s stories, including the Pentagon’s and most other government officials now. I doubt he pulled back any attack, or anything else he says, ever. People are fools to believe him. At least really all of these foreign leaders are reasonable, rational, well-spoken humans compared to anyone anymore in the USA’s regime.

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Don’t forget age related mental decline…

When trump announced the sanctions, he said “Ayatollah Khomeini,” aka Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the country from 1979 until his death in 1989. The current supreme leader of Iran is Ayatollah Khamenei

The White House transcripts corrected the record.

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Yes, other articles covering this have reported he called Trump “retarded”. That is what this R word must mean but, it’s very poor writing not to define it here.

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