Iran So Far Away: 2026

[Kepler]

Ufda.

 

[aparch]

Turns out the laundry fire story about the USS Gerald Ford WAS complete bullshit. Iran knocked the piss out of it.

Susan Hull (@susanhull) on Threads

Trump: Iran hit the Ford from 17 angles. We ran to save our asses. “They came at the biggest carrier in the world from 17 directions. We ran. End of story.” So the Pentagon just made up stories about a “laundry fire.” This administration has lied to us the entire time. Iran hit the USS Gerald...

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[ticapnews]

Turns out the laundry fire story about the USS Gerald Ford WAS complete bullshit. Iran knocked the piss out of it.

Susan Hull (@susanhull) on Threads

Trump: Iran hit the Ford from 17 angles. We ran to save our asses. “They came at the biggest carrier in the world from 17 directions. We ran. End of story.” So the Pentagon just made up stories about a “laundry fire.” This administration has lied to us the entire time. Iran hit the USS Gerald...

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I like how the Pentagon comes up with a cover story and this clown can't even follow the script. Imagine him at other points in history.
"We're sneaking into the beach in Normandy. Oh sure, they'll be expecting us in Calais, but we're brilliant and concocted this elaborate deception campaign. The tanks up there aren't even real! Can't wait to see the look on Rommel's face when he wakes up to find us off the coast of France!"

 

[Kepler]

Turns out the laundry fire story about the USS Gerald Ford WAS complete bullshit. Iran knocked the piss out of it.

Susan Hull (@susanhull) on Threads

Trump: Iran hit the Ford from 17 angles. We ran to save our asses. “They came at the biggest carrier in the world from 17 directions. We ran. End of story.” So the Pentagon just made up stories about a “laundry fire.” This administration has lied to us the entire time. Iran hit the USS Gerald...

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It's fake.

Did a video clip really show US President Donald Trump claiming Iran struck the world's biggest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford from "17 angles", with planes lifting off every 32 seconds at one in the morning? The answer is no.

The quote in question was taken from a lengthier video in which Trump was clearly voicing the imagined reaction of a Venezuelan general to American military strikes on Venezuela. He never said Iran attacked an aircraft carrier, nor did he put the words "ran for our lives" in the mouths of US personnel.

A full reading of the transcript leaves no room for ambiguity — the section about the US aircraft carrier was a reference to the Venezuela operation, and not with the Iranian war. Trump's speech suggests that the individuals described as being hit from 17 angles and fleeing were Venezuelans, not Americans.

Edited clips from the speech were circulated on X alongside the claim that Trump had spoken about an Iranian strike on the USS Gerald R. Ford, with one post paraphrasing him as saying: "Iran attacked from 17 directions. We fled to save our lives. It was all over." That framing is a misrepresentation of what he actually said.

 

[Kepler]

Pretty much.