Iran, Trump: ‘They've been making fools of us for 47 years, but they won't be laughing any more’

Milan, 10 May (LaPresse) – ‘Iran has been playing games with the United States and the rest of the world for 47 years (delaying, delaying, delaying!), only to finally “pull off the big coup” when Barack Hussein Obama became president’, ‘For 47 years, the Iranians have kept us “on tenterhooks”, making us wait, killing our people with their bombs on the streets, crushing protests and, recently, wiping out 42,000 innocent and unarmed demonstrators, and laughing at our country, which is now great again. They won’t be laughing any more!’ US President Donald Trump wrote this in a long post on his social media platform Truth. In the post, Trump criticised and insulted Barack Obama. After writing that under his presidency Iran had ‘hit the jackpot’, the tycoon continued: "Not only was he lenient towards them, but he was fantastic, effectively siding with them, abandoning Israel and all our other allies, and offering Iran a new and incredibly powerful vision for the future. Hundreds of billions of dollars and $1.7 billion in cash, flown to Tehran, were handed to them on a silver platter. All the banks in Washington, Virginia and Maryland were emptied – there was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian thugs had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like that, and they never will again." ‘It was unloaded from the plane in suitcases and bags, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck. They had finally found the biggest sucker of all, in the guise of a weak and stupid American president. He was a disaster as our ‘leader’, but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden!’, he concluded, taking a dig at his two Democratic predecessors.