The Golden Curtain Parts….

Trump: "They put out a warning saying 'any protester that goes onto the street will be immediately shot and killed.' That's a little tougher than the American way." pic.twitter.com/ijoGITukpj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

Really? We just shoot, then call them terrorists. And block any investigation.

TRUMP: I've spoken to a certain president, who I like actually, a past president, he said, 'I wish I did it.' But they didn't do it. I'm doing it.

Q: Which president?

TRUMP: I can't tell you that. It would be very bad for his career even though he's got no career left. pic.twitter.com/m9u5s60tqD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

You wouldn’t know him. He’s not from around here. He lives in Canada.

Q: Is the United States getting back to being the world's policeman?

TRUMP: Look, the United States should not be very much involved. We aren't we being reimbursed for maintain the Hormuz Strait? I've said that for years. pic.twitter.com/R4q4unMHWj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

How do you like us now?

Trump on his war against Iran: "We did it. You could say we did it out of habit. Which is not a good thing to do." pic.twitter.com/H6JECA7iKD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

Does he hear the words coming out of his mouth?

Trump: "They have been literally obliterated" pic.twitter.com/QtXtXn16lV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

So why is the Strait still a problem?

Trump: "The missiles are trickling in now at very low levels, because they don't have too many missiles left" pic.twitter.com/xwiLi4Vr8i

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

Does he not know what “obliterated” means?

Trump: We hit, to the best of our knowledge, all of their mine-laying ships. Now they can put them on other types of ships, I guess, and drop them in. But we don't know that any even have been dropped in, we're not sure any have been pic.twitter.com/UOL66aQeAJ

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 16, 2026

Same question as above.

Trump: "We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the Strait far more than ours. We get less than 1% of our oil from the Strait. Some countries get much more. Japan gets 95%. China gets 90%. We want them to come and help us with the Strait." pic.twitter.com/1rYFaZIZBl

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

Wait for it...

Trump: "Numerous countries have told me they're on the way. We have some countries where we have 45,000 soldiers protecting them from harm's way. 'Do you have any mine sweepers?' 'We'd rather not get involved, sir.' I said, 'For 40 years we're protecting you and you don't want to… pic.twitter.com/z4V9y7vDul

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

Trump: "Numerous countries have told me they're on the way. We have some countries where we have 45,000 soldiers protecting them from harm's way. 'Do you have any mine sweepers?' 'We'd rather not get involved, sir.' I said, 'For 40 years we're protecting you and you don't want to get involved in something very minor?' Very few shots are gonna be taken because they don't have many shots left."

No, not yet...

Trump: We strongly encourage other nations to get involved with us and get involved quickly and with great enthusiasm. I have that from a number of them and I would like to say their names but frankly I don't know if they would want me to or not because they might not want to be… pic.twitter.com/uRMcsCITAp

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 16, 2026

You wouldn’t know ‘em, they’re not from around here.

Reporter: Can you tell us which countries are on their way?

Trump: I rather not say yet. We have some that are really enthusiastic, they're coming already, they've already started to get there. It takes a little while to get there pic.twitter.com/84e8mNfuhq

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 16, 2026

OTOH:

Trump on Strait of Hormuz: We don't need anybody. We're the strongest nation in the world. pic.twitter.com/GelmtWQrB1

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 16, 2026

And you’d think so, but still not there yet.

Trump: "I knew the Strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this stuff. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I wrote it in a book." pic.twitter.com/tdllc55VQ4

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

There it is! The Moby Dick! The great, white whale! The whopper of all whoppers! Trump is Nostradamus! He is Tereisias who has foreseen it all.

 But:

“Nobody expected that” https://t.co/IE8XH4KDhl

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 16, 2026

Paper tigers can close off global oil flows with bombs? https://t.co/Pu0T9ZiMbJ

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 16, 2026

Yeah, he’s through talking about that….

Trump: See the nice gold curtain? We have a magnificent ballroom being built. This whole floor will end up being a cocktail room for the cocktail area or pre area for the ballroom before dinners. pic.twitter.com/BnAA2lwZzb

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 16, 2026

Alright, enough of that. He’s bored now.

Trump on Ballroom: It's going to be on time, on budget. It will be under budget. It will be literally under budget other than we've upgraded in terms of the marbles we've been using, we're using onyx and stones that are incredible. pic.twitter.com/9ZQMcW7vMN

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 16, 2026

See?

Trump: "Today we determined -- it's a little late for the board because we already announced it -- that the fastest way to bring the Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of success, beauty, and grandeur is to cease the entertainment operations for a 2 year period." pic.twitter.com/jM8kWXNNlc

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 16, 2026

Nothing to do with the fact that ticket sales collapsed after you took over, and that you couldn’t book so much as Uncle Elmo’s Jug and Kazoo Review for a performance.

Trump: I've always felt that was a weakness of NATO. We were going to protect them. But I always said, when in need, they won't protect us. And if we need their mine boats that they may have because of a situation that we have, they should be jumping to help us because we've… pic.twitter.com/riTJoRaVrH

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 16, 2026

9/11, you daft idiot. When all you cared about was the height of your building after the WTC towers fell.

For the second time this week…this is Year 11 of Trump telling this lie.

His 2000 book contained one passing sentence about bin Laden. It didn’t predict bin Laden would do anything, let alone attack the WTC, and didn’t tell anyone “you’d better get him.” https://t.co/YucQulHkUb https://t.co/5sseMrItYm

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 16, 2026

And with that we draw the golden curtain upon the proceedings, leaving you assured it didn’t get any better….