Trump: U.S. could be "the guardian of the Middle East" in return for 20 percent of the region's revenues

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/politics/trump-iran-deal-strait-of-hormuz.html

Trump Claims Strait Will Be ‘Permanently Toll-Free’ Under Agreement With Iran
In a call to The New York Times, President Trump praised Russia’s and China’s leaders and described Israel’s prime minister as “a very difficult guy.”
By David E. Sanger
Published June 14, 2026

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Mr. Trump also insisted that if Iran failed to reach a final nuclear accord with the United States — a process that his aides say they expect will begin on Friday in Switzerland — he would restart military attacks on Tehran or make the United States “the guardian of the Middle East” in return for 20 percent of the region’s revenues.

In a 28-minute phone conversation that Mr. Trump initiated from the White House residence, and a brief follow-up call, the president contended that his decision to attack Iran in late February, and his subsequent naval blockade of its ports after Tehran closed the strait, had remade the Middle East in America’s favor.

Speaking on his 80th birthday, as his family could be heard gathering in the background for a celebratory dinner, he praised two authoritarians — Presidents Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — for aiding in the settlement, or at least not interfering in the blockade of the Strait.

But he excoriated Mr. Netanyahu for mounting attacks that nearly derailed the final agreement.

“He’s a very difficult guy,” Mr. Trump said of the Israeli prime minister, “and to be honest with you, he should be very thankful to us for doing this. Because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel wouldn’t be around for two hours.”

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What percentage goes to the Trump crime syndicate?

[Chasstev365]

1. OMFG: Just DIE ALREADY!

[kentuck]

2. Spending a billion dollars a day is a weird way to share "revenues"?

A horrible idea.

[Lovie777]

3. OMG...............

cha ching for his family and cult buddies.

No trickle down for me or you.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. TBH it's a protection racket

We attack until they say make the pain stop, now everybody's a good guy and we get a cut. But, America First, no wars, no world's policeman, and NATO must go it alone.

[RockRaven]

20. A protection racket where the "sales pitch" kicks off with a pratfall and a punching of ones own dick.

[Solly Mack]

5. Yeah, OK.

[ret5hd]

6. so...the worlds policeman

[BootinUp]

7. Sounds like he already knows the deal is dead. nt

[-misanthroptimist]

8. Sooo...

...a protection racket? That seems pretty much on point for the [Redacted] crew.

[struggle4progress]

9. "I think I could get a cut and never have to pay taxes"

[Tetrachloride]

10. obviously 19 is not enough

[eppur_se_muova]

11. "Nice little country you got here. Too bad if something should happen to it." nt

[Diamond_Dog]

12. This is extortion, pure and simple.

[malaise]

13. Fox in the hen house?

Hmmmmmmm.

[Midnight Writer]

14. He will send our soldiers to die in the Middle East so he can get a 20% cut of a deal.

I reckon any money collected from this "deal" will go to a dedicated account in Quatar and can be used by the President at his discretion.

Think of how many monuments to himself he could build.

[dalton99a]

15. +1

[Prairie Gates]

16. For 40 years, the Republicans insisted that we should "Run the country like a business"

They forgot to add that the business they had in mind was the mafia.

[marble falls]

17. Is that guy on acid?

[RockRaven]

18. The past 4 months, he has literally just proven that the US cannot, in fact, guard the ME.

[Norrrm]

19. Trump Said He Calls the Shots. Netanyahu Just Made Him Look Like a Fool. Again.

Trump Said He Calls the Shots. Netanyahu Just Made Him Look Like a Fool. Again.
https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/trump-said-he-calls-the-shots-netanyahu

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

21. They want to Christianize Islam. "They" being the crazed theo-loons of the so-called, religious right.

Good luck with that, LOL.

[Turbineguy]

22. Saddam Hussein only took 15%

[Baitball Blogger]

23. It's going to get worse, before it gets better, isn't it?

[dalton99a]

24. There is no bottom to his stupidity and depravity.

[Swede]

25. Victory in the Gulf, for the 40th time!!!!!!

Trump truly is a genius.

[surfered]

26. Who would want this inept, incompetent, untrustworthy administration to be the guardian of anything?

[sakabatou]

27. Isn't that called a protection racket?

[D. Spaulding]

28. The demented fool

thinks our great economic and military powers are just leverage for his eternal grifting.