Trump: ‘When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?’

Talk about a joke. This administration just handed over $300 billion to Iran then Trump wants to talk about them rising up? Give me a break. He's always saying one thing then doing the exact opposite. First the 'greatest deal ever' with China, then this Iran mess. Just like gas prices, said he'd fix it and now it's through the roof. This is why I'm getting sick of him.

Three hundred billion dollars and we are calling it a deal. The man who spent four years hammering Obama for the Iran nuclear agreement just handed Tehran more money than they have ever seen and we are supposed to cheer. Now he is on Truth Social asking when the Iranian people are going to rise up. Brother, they are not rising up because your Treasury Secretary just wired them a lifeline. I voted for America First and I am still looking for it on this one. I want to be wrong. Somebody convince me I am wrong.

"Rise up and fight" is not a foreign-policy strategy, it is a public invitation for civilians to absorb the risk while Trump keeps pretending the United States has no leverage or responsibility for what follows. You cannot threaten a government, announce a deal that reportedly rewards Tehran, then act surprised that people do not volunteer to become the next battlefield.

This is the sitting president asking a foreign population to overthrow their government days after his administration signed a framework agreement with that same government. The diplomatic incoherence is staggering. You do not cut a deal with a regime and simultaneously call for its people to revolt against it. That is not a foreign policy posture, that is a man who does not understand what his own State Department just did. Rubio had to have signed off on this negotiation. Bessent structured the $300 billion piece. These are not rogue actors; this is the administration's official position, and Trump is already publicly undermining it in real time. The Iranians read these statements. Every hardliner inside Tehran who wanted this agreement to fail just got handed a gift. Trump is actively sabotaging his own deal while taking credit for it, and the people who will pay the price are neither him nor the Iranian government. They never are.

He signed the thing. His people negotiated it. Whatever happens in Iran now, this administration owns the outcome.

You cannot cut a deal that size and then turn around and ask why the Iranian people are not revolting. They are not going to bite the hand that just got fed $300 billion by Washington.

This reads like someone told him what he agreed to and he did not like it.

Only in the simulation would a president wire $300 billion to a government then turn around asking its people to overthrow it the same week, while Fox News MAGAt zombies call this "winning" and nobody stops to wonder if any of it is real.

Trump is treating Iranian civilians like props in his personal war narrative. A president should be reducing civilian suffering and pursuing diplomacy, not publicly demanding that people risk their lives to satisfy his political needs. This is exactly the kind of reckless foreign policy voters should remember in 2028.