Trump said “Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow ‘em up,”

[DeSexGuide]

Is Trump going to blow up Oman?

" As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump gleefully painted his opponents as trigger-happy interventionists who would get the United States bogged down in all manner of foreign wars — up to and including World War III.

As president, Trump has racked up an astonishing list of countries he’s both threatened to attack and actually attacked.

Trump added a new entry to that list on Wednesday, threatening to strike Oman if it tries to control the Strait of Hormuz along with Iran.

“Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow ‘em up,” Trump said at a White House Cabinet meeting.

It was particularly striking because it was phrased like an aside — something Trump seemingly casually dropped with little thought beforehand.

And that’s become somewhat typical for Trump.

Oman is at least the 15th country that he has either threatened to attack, left open the possibility of attacking, or actually attacked during his two terms as president. Nearly all of those instances occurred in the first 16 months of his second term, though some span both terms.

He’s launched strikes in seven countries so far this term — Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen — after also attacking some of those countries in his first term. That doesn’t even count the strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, which have targeted nearly 60 vessels and killed more than 190 people.

He has also threatened or left open the possibility of strikes against seven others this term: Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Greenland (which is part of Denmark), Mexico, Panama and now Oman. He also threatened Mexico and North Korea in his first term."


https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/politics ... -countries

[Boner]

Here goes another middle east war rofl

[TheButcher]

War is big money

[calista]

Was he joking or being serious?

[chilli.domains]

One way to make your Gulf allies support you

[CamLuCy]

That is his way of negotiating from a position of strength, he doesn't really mean it he wants the other side to believe he will do something extreme so they take him seriously.