Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

[demmiblue]

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

— Simon Marks (@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T06:53:17.246Z

[FalloutShelter]

1. Spot on.

Thank you Ben.

[Swede]

2. Mr. Rhodes summed it up quite nicely.

A complete disaster brought upon by Trump

[patphil]

20. Great summation.

It's going to take a decade or more to repair the damage done to our position in the world. And even then we won't be looked on as a nation that can be trusted to do the right thing when the world is in need.
It's not just this stupid war, the dismantling of USAID has resulted in over 750,000 dead, with about 2/3 being children.
And then there's the tariffs that shook the world economy, and resulted in many nations shifting their markets away from the United States.
And the use of a brown shirt army in the streets of America, with it's violence, mass incarcerations, and deportations.
Also, the monetization of the White House by the Trump family.
And the acceleration of the transfer of wealth from the middle and lower classes to the upper class.
This is just to name a few of the things Trump did in less than 15 months to pervert the image of and destroy the reputation of the United States.

[Dave Bowman]

3. Back when competent people were in charge... Damn I miss it badly.

[Spazito]

4. That is excellent...

Sums it all up perfectly.

[sop]

5. This goes back to 2018...

(From MS NOW) "On May 8, 2018, Trump pulled the United States out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the multinational deal to restrict and monitor Iran’s nuclear program that was painstakingly negotiated and finalized in mid-2015, with the help of China, Russia, France, Germany, Britain and the European Union. Trump’s own advisers then, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis, had pleaded with him not to abandon the agreement, arguing that it was keeping Iran’s nuclear ambitions in check. But Trump killed it, claiming that the Iranian regime would quickly come crawling back and give in. 'They are going to want to make a new and lasting deal,' he said. But no new agreement ever materialized."

[Cosmocat]

17. And, PRE DT, the republican party actively attempted to sabotage it

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/letters-to-the-ayatollah-the-sequel-the-republican-letter-to-irans-leaders-reflects-strategy-as-well-as-spite/

[Ocelot II]

6. Trump is like the firefighter who sets a fire in order to be the hero who puts it out.

Except in this case he set fire to a building with children in it, poured even more gasoline on it after he started it, endangered other firefighters who had to be rescued, and threatened to burn down the whole city. And the building belongs to the Mafia.

[murielm99]

8. You are so right.

[lastlib]

13. He's stopped another war---

so that gives him the RIGHT to DEMAND the Nobel Peace Prize. That's the way he sees it.

He would set a fire, let it burn down the building, then put it out and demand to be named the firefighter of the year.

Sick, evil basturd.

[calimary]

22. One other accomplishment he's pulled off.

Changing the spelling of “bastard” to something far more fitting: “basTURD”.

[Johonny]

7. This is what losing feels like. We lost. Period.

Our media won't tell us this, but holy crap the Iranian terms are embaressing. And we are accepting them. LOL.

[FakeNoose]

11. We lost when the American voters pulled the lever for Chump

Now we're on hook for every crazy thing he does ... until he's finally out of the White House.

We could have had Hillary Clinton ... we could have had Kamala Harris.... but NOOOOO!

[Farmer-Rick]

12. The economic trauma is just starting

We feel it but we are just feeling the beginning of the economic downturn. It's going to get worse. So much damage to the oil market that it will take decades to fix. And when the cost of energy goes up, everything goes up.

See what happens when you let a psycho in the presidency. It doesn't just hurt the country he runs, it hurts the entire world.

[NNadir]

9. A nice statement of the obvious state of affairs. K&R

[TheRickles]

10. And yet Trump, and the media, will portray it as a complete and total victory by the US.

[MLWR]

14. Pres. Obama got a MUCH BETTER DEAL WITH IRAN, but racist TACO just had to tear it up.

[hamsterjill]

15. Wow. Spot on....unfortunately.

I don't like economics and the study of the stock market, etc., so I admit to not being very savvy about a lot of it. I'm not stupid; I just hate having to stop and figure it out when it doesn't benefit me.

But several economists also mentioned that Trump and all of his rich-ass friends benefitted from the trading situation yesterday because of his threat. So, he basically creates a situation and then all of the vultures jump in and take the spoils.

The faces of those little girls at that school haunt me. I'm sure Trump has never had a second thought about any of them.

That, my friends, is the difference between "us" and "them".

[Buckeyeblue]

16. This was such a foreign policy fuck up.

--Using military force for no definable reason. I still don't know why we bombed Iran
--Using military force with no definable outcome. What are we trying to accomplish?
--Absolutely no anticipation of what Iran would do in response. I think people knew. Trump wouldn't listen.

[ultralite001]

18. Krasnov is such a

LOSER…

24 / 7 / 365 / 366…

https://www.kron4.com/news/national/anti-trump-pac-sends-loser-billboard-truck-to-white-house/

[Joinfortmill]

19. I'm gonna keep saying it.. IMPEACH THIS MOTHERF*CKER.

[calimary]

23. And I'm gonna keep echoing it.

But I might just shorten it to IMPEACH THIS F*CKER!!!

After all, Mother’s Day is coming up next month, and I don’t want anything about him tarnishing or taking anything away from that.

[Figarosmom]

21. And this is why

No other President fell for Israel's manipulations to attack Iran.

[chouchou]

24. I suspect in 2 weeks that everything will be great.

Signed: Ryan Gosling

[Cha]

25. TY & Ben Rhodes

Bookmarked!

[Fla Dem]

26. Trump has been a black cloud over the US ever since his 2nd inauguration.

The cloud finally exploded into a violent storm that has torn our constitutional republic to shreds. He should be impeached or removed by the Cabinet based on the 25th amendment.

A U.S. president can be removed without impeachment primarily through Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unfit to discharge their duties. The Vice President immediately becomes Acting President, though the president can contest this, requiring a two-thirds Congressional vote to finalize removal.

I know it won't happen, but it should if the Cabinet had an ounce of respect for the US constitution and our country.

[vapor2]

27. Ben is rather articulate and well informed

[Skittles]

28. he is indeed

I miss his kind of professionalism in our government.