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Iran teaches Grandpa Puddin’ Brains diplomacy while he imagines Iranians begging for more bombs

When the country you’re bombing sounds more measured, more literate, and more tethered to reality than the person ordering the strikes, you don’t have a messaging problem. You have a real problem.

Jason Weisberger
Apr 07, 2026
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Image: Donald Trump; Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock

Trump now claims that Iranians, currently being bombed, losing power, watching infrastructure collapse, are somehow slipping into his DMs to say: “Please, sir, keep bombing our homes.”

Not “stop.” Not “ceasefire.” Not “maybe don’t hit the power grid or elementary schools.”

Nope. According to the Orange Mena…

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