"I think everybody that voted for Trump should be strapped down to a chair and forced to watch the entirety of the press conference about the war that Donald gave Thursday, over and over again on a loop until they admit defeat and that they were wrong. That’s it. Just watch this guy."

~ Greg Olear

#Trump #Iran #war
/7

gregolear.substack.com/p/rambl…

Ramble On: Black Ops

Morning thoughts on Leon Black, Richard Kahn, Donald Trump, and Jeffrey Epstein.

^{Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)}

"Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared on stage yesterday at a global investors’ conference in Miami. He explained why he likes leading a multibillion-dollar global investment firm.

'The cool thing about the investment business is you’re meeting with really smart people all the time,' Kushner said."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/8

americaamerica.news/p/the-grif…

The Grifter's War

Jared Kushner is egregiously exploiting American lives to further enrich himself

^{Steven Beschloss (America, America)}

"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'

Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/9

"The 'cool' thing is that he got $2 billion from the Saudis to launch his fledgling equity firm, Affinity Partners, six months after his father-in-law left the White House."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
/10

"Trump is aligning himself with international oligarchs like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), and China’s Xi Jinping. ...

On February 28, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Natalie Allison, and Souad Mekhennet of the Washington Post reported" (continued in /12)

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/11

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

March 26, 2026

In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore’s minister for foreign affairs, Dr.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

(continued from /11)

"that Trump initially launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and would not for at least a decade."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/12

"On Tuesday, March 24, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that MBS [i.e., bin Salman] sees a 'historic opportunity' to remake the Middle East and so has been pushing Trump to continue his war against Iran. MBS, the journalists report, has urged Trump to use troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive the regime out of power."

#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/13

"He has assured Trump that the jump in oil prices will be temporary, although most observers disagree.

Judd Legum of Popular Information notes that the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) controlled by MBS invested $2 billion in the private equity firm of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s volunteer Iran negotiators, before the war."

#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
/14

"On unregulated betting markets, people are setting themselves up to make millions if Trump re-escalates, wagering on the precise timing of a land-invasion of Iran."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering
/15

offmessage.net/p/expose-all-of…

Expose ALL Of Trump's War Profiteering

It can serve as a downpayment to the world on our commitment to restore accountable democracy to America.

^{Brian Beutler (Off Message)}

"The reason people are getting so upset about these markets and the reason that politicians now are introducing bills to rein them in is because you can gamble on Iranian missile strikes and, you know, how many deportations will take place in America and whether Gaza will experience a famine."

McKay Coppins

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
/16

thebulwark.com/p/how-america-l…

How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gambling

McKay Coppins on his year of degenerate gambling.

^{Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark)}

"And like you can bet on preposterous, dystopian life and death things that like, of course, nobody should be able to gamble on. Right. Like, I think we all sort of understand that, like, this is a Black Mirror episode when we're gambling on like which, you know, part of Tehran is going to be bombed on what day."

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
/17

"How else do you explain that about 15 minutes before Trump’s surprise announcement of how hunky dory talks were going, there was a sharp increase in purchases of stock market and oil futures?"

~ Lisa Needham

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering #morality
/18

publicnotice.co/p/trumpism-dea…

What do you do when you can't trust the government?

The haze of contradictions and confusion is a feature, not a bug.

^{Lisa Needham (Public Notice)}

"There was no discernible reason for these sudden jumps occurring at 6:50 am, normally a fairly sleepy time for premarket trading. But when Trump’s 7:05 am announcement about all those productive conversations predictably drove oil prices down, and stocks rebounded, those 6:50 am traders made bank. In just a few moments, those anonymous and fortunate folks made roughly $580 million."

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #profiteering #morality
/19

"U.S. and global markets fell sharply as optimism faded over a possible U.S.-Iran ceasefire, with the Nasdaq entering correction territory and major indexes posting significant losses. Oil prices surged—U.S. crude nearing $95 and Brent above $109—driving higher inflation expectations and raising concerns about long-term energy costs."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #Nasdaq #bonds
/20

aaronparnas.substack.com/p/new…

NEWS: Trump Adds Signature to all Dollar Bills, Trump Announces Order to Pay TSA, Stock Market has Worst Day Since Start of War

Good evening everyone.

^{Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)}

"Bond yields climbed as investors sold off Treasurys, pushing borrowing costs higher, including mortgage rates rising above 6.5%. Analysts warn continued geopolitical risk and disrupted oil transport could keep prices elevated despite political downplaying of the situation."

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #Nasdaq #bonds
/21

"Yesterday I think the markets began to truly wake up to the disaster Trump has created in the Middle East. Today, Iran is in charge of the Strait of Hormuz, and is now, despite the war, the dominant power in the region. They are holding our economy and the global economy hostage."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Iran #war #economy #StockMarket #markets #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
/22

hopiumchronicles.com/p/copy-se…

[COPY] Senate Rs Cave, No Kings Is Here, The Enormous Costs Of Trump's Ridiculous War Continue To Grow (Updated, Second Send)

Good luck this weekend everyone! Make your democracy proud!

^{Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)}

"Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 social media post claiming that the war in Iran was winding down."

Reed McMaster offers a valuable list of MAGA commentators from Ben Shapiro and Nick Fuentes to Steve Bannon pressing this point.

#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering #morality
/23

mediamatters.org/us-iran-relat…

Right-wing media accused Trump of “obvious” stock market manipulation

Update (3/27/26): This piece has been updated with additional examples. Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 social media post claiming that the war in Iran was …

^{Media Matters for America}

"The president is experiencing the Iran War almost entirely through misleading video clips—and that’s very bad news for all of us. …

In an interview with Fox & Friends ahead of the press conference [after the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife], he enthused about his own audience reception of the Venezuela raid: 'I watched it literally like I was watching a TV show.'”

~ Chris Lehmann

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity
/24

thenation.com/article/politics…

Trump’s TV-Warped Brain Is Putting the World in Danger | The Nation

^{smccroskey (The Nation)}