Do you think it seems like Donald Trump is becoming more unhinged as time goes by?

[Anonymous]

He threatened to blow up Oman

[Just_Ken]

Lockheed Martin:Stock price increased nearly 40% in early 2026 as tensions escalated.

RTX (formerly Raytheon):Shares surged 4.7% on the first day of the war alone. Achieved a 110% stock price increase over a three-year trajectory leading into March 2026.

BAE Systems:Value skyrocketed to a historic peak share price of £23.31 in March 2026.

Northrop Grumman & General Dynamics: Their multi-year stock trajectories grew 60% and 57% respectively by March 2026.

The world’s top oil and gas companies collectively reaped an unearned $30 million an hour ($8,333 a second) in the initial wake of the conflict, with six major firms projected to secure $94 billion in total profits for 2026.

Fertilizer companies are seeing massive profit windfalls from the war in Iran, with giants like CF Industries and Nutrien reporting nearly 20% jumps in recent quarterly sales. The conflict and Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz choked off vital global supplies, driving prices up by 50% to 80%.

[Just_Ken]

U. S. Crude to China: U. S. crude exports to China plunged significantly, dropping by 95% from 2023 levels to 8.4 million barrels in 2025, and stopping entirely from May 2025 through early 2026 due to a 20% import tariff.

Recent Developments: Following a mid-May 2026 bilateral summit, President Trump announced that China agreed to resume buying U. S. crude oil to reduce dependence on Middle Eastern supply routes choked by the war.

Global Context: Overall, the U. S. has ramped up total oil exports to record highs (surpassing 5.2 million barrels a day) to offset global shortages caused by the Strait of Hormuz closure.

[Just_Ken]

The US-Iran war has completely disrupted global energy markets, blocking Persian Gulf energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz and driving US crude exports to a historic record high of 5.6 million barrels per day (bpd) to supply desperate European and Asian buyers. Meanwhile, the blockade has paralyzed Europe’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply chain, forcing the European Union (EU) to aggressively compete for alternative gas cargoes to refill depleted domestic storages.

Global Oil Market ImpactsUS Exports Hit Records: Driven by the Middle East crisis, US crude exports spiked to an all-time high of 5.6 million bpd. Nearly 47% of these exports (2.4 million bpd) sailed toward European countries like the Netherlands, France, Germany, Greece, and Bulgaria. Price Surges: The loss of Middle Eastern barrels pushed prompt delivery physical crude prices in Europe toward $150 a barrel. Brent futures jumped above $96 a barrel, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) traded past $92 a barrel following a breakdown in US-Iran communication.

Iran Export Redirection: Prior to the recent escalation, more than 90% of Iran’s 1.5 million bpd crude exports went strictly to China. However, maritime blockades have throttled a total of 10 million bpd of Gulf energy flows.

[Just_Ken]

The Strait of Hormuz Chokepoint: Roughly 20% of global LNG trade is trapped behind the strait. This has completely cut off Qatari LNG supplies, which historically accounted for 7% of Europe's winter gas imports.

Depleted Storage Vulnerability: The EU entered the spring refilling season with significantly lower gas inventories than previous years, sitting at just 40% to 46% capacity.

Skyrocketing Costs: To meet mandatory winter storage targets of 80% to 90%, the EU faces an estimated €25 billion to €38 billion in extra costs for US LNG. This creates intense competition with Asian buyers for flexible spot market cargoes.

[strateguy632]

very helpful. @Just_Ken
well presented too! superb. 👍

[sawno]

He's not becoming more unhinged, this kinda stuff is normal for trump. He's always done insane claims when negotiating so the opponent feels like they have to come to the table.

I don't like how warhawk he has become, but this is not new.

[SofaKingsMart]

@sawno

LMAO 🤣😂🤣😂

You made that up. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Twalli]

He's gotten worse. He was at least somewhat rational in his first term. Now he's completely unhinged.

[Amy10223]

He has dementia, and he is a dangerous idiot. They didn't give him access to the nuclear codes for nothing. It's funny how many of his supporters blame the left--and think that we create these stories about him. They act as though being on the right is going to make Trump's mental problems better. The left have nothing to do with his behavior--that's all on him. And if you lie to yourself and say there is nothing wrong with him--you are in deep, brainwashed denial.

[Amy10223]

Thanks for the MHO!

[SofaKingsMart]

@ indissoluble
You know, it still amuses me how some of you automatically insist others have been brainwashed because they have a different opinion.
Do you get the irony of that? If I don’t think exactly like you, I’m the one who is brainwashed.

You don’t get it, do you?😂🤣😂🤣

[SofaKingsMart]

And he blocked me.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[Wodens_Apprentice]

What you're accusing him of is exactly how the left has been operating for the past decade and we're sick of it.
If you're a leftist then the left are truly brainwashed if they are saying shit like this and lack self awareness.

[SofaKingsMart]

@Wodens_Apprentice
Did you even read the exchange that prompted that? Or did you just feel compelled to jump in and confirm…. it’s definitely OTHER PEOPLE who are brainwashed?
🤦🏻‍♀️

[Friendlybro79]

You're conflating people saying your brainwashed with you must have to think like the tower person who isn't brainwashed.

If you're a right winger who opposes or disagrees with most of my political beliefs, if you could criticize Trump, be actually critical of how bad things are right now, and not blame the Democrats, you're not brainwashed. As a progressive Democrat, I can tell you I wouldn't think you're brainwashed, if you could do those things but still stand behind real conservative values. It would be as easy as saying well he broke his promises about noire wars, lowering prices etc. You could also say he acted like a highschool kid running for class president that made promises he couldn't keep to get elected but you're rooting for him to get back on track.

It's when a person can't criticize him at all, can't acknowledge the reality that he is doing the opposite of what he campaigned on, and never released and unredacted the entire Epstein files like he promised, well then you'd be at least a Republican or conservative in good faith when debating.

[FunkyMonkee]

You don't think that has anything to do with how you just parrot everything the media tells you to say and think but the rest of the country bases what we say on provable facts?

[Wodens_Apprentice]

It's the whole "You disagree with me so you're X" assumption is a tactic the left have used on the right a lot so I am explaining why the right hand become aggressive.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@Friendlybro79 I hate conservative values I'm more for extreme traditionalism, a strong-man authoritarian culture where men are warriors & women are mothers.
And I also don't like trump for almost the opposite reason the left don't like him but at least I don't have trump derangement syndrome and disagree with everything he does to be contrarian.

[Friendlybro79]

@Wodens_Apprentice Authoritarianism isn’t strength. It is a massive trap driven by insecurity.

When a leader demands total control and blind obedience, they aren't being an alpha. They are just creating a fragile echo chamber where everyone is too afraid to tell them the truth.

That is exactly how operations crash and burn. Top talent leaves, people hide bad news to avoid punishment, and the whole system collapses the second the boss makes a mistake.

Look at elite military units or top companies. They do not use top down tyranny. They give smart people autonomy because rigid micromanagement gets people killed or bankrupt.

Needing a bunch of yes men to feel powerful is weak behavior. A real leader builds a team of killers, not a team of servants. If you cannot handle pushback, you are not a leader. You are just a babysitter with an ego problem.

And using a buzzword like TDS to dismiss accountability is a classic cop out. Blindly worshiping any politician and crying derangement the second someone questions them isn't strength. It is intellectual laziness. Objective criticism and critical thinking show a strong, independent mind. Letting another man do your thinking for you is peak beta behavior.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

Why would I care about middle eastern countries? I'd conquer them myself but not got Israel like Trump does.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@Friendlybro79 "Authoritarianism isn’t strength. It is a massive trap driven by insecurity." Coming from a 47 year old called "friendly" that trusts the normies to make good decisions and compromises with the general population ,(who are retards that'd happily let their people get ethnically wiped out & exploited).
"When a leader demands total control and blind obedience, they aren't being an alpha." It's not about being alpha, the authoritarian makes sure everyone knows who the alpha is and therefore who they need to overthrow & kill. Authoritarians don't have to depend on digital totalitarianism like Western Democracies do. This is how more people in the UK are arrested for speech then Russia.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@Friendlybro79 Also quite frankly why should the right wing tolerate the left who clearly don't want to tolerate us or compromise with us ever? Of we wish to deal with them we have to effectively ban them. Any historical ruler wouldve understand that revolutionary movements they call themselves "anarchists" should be violently suppressed. You think our modern politicians are wiser then our kings were? A politician cars about money, a king cares about the kingdom his descendants will inherit.
"That is exactly how operations crash and burn. Top talent leaves, people hide bad news to avoid punishment, and the whole system collapses the second the boss makes a mistake." That's true of the soviet union because of the purging within the governments own officials. Why do you presume every form of authoritarianism looks exactly like Stalin? This isn't how it was for the Austrian Painter or Pinochet.
"Look at elite military units or top companies. They do not use top down tyranny. They give smart people autonomy because rigid micromanagement gets people killed or bankrupt." That is also because governments are incompetent at their jobs and therefore should leave it up to private companies who are invested in their own success. But people like you want to strip away all purposes of the government so that it is nothing but inactive seats that never change anything.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@Friendlybro79 A government needs to specialise in something, such as warfare.
"Needing a bunch of yes men to feel powerful is weak behavior. A real leader builds a team of killers, not a team of servants." Is that what your wife or mother told you? Perhaps a female teacher? Because on reality the strongest cultures all depended on slavery in order to even have a functioning economy. Do you honestly think that the slaves were more attractive to women then the slave masters? What a complete delusional pipe dream you've been living, completely removed from the suffering we've had to endure on the past with blissful ignorance.
The reality is of you would've said this to any warrior culture on the dark ages or any point before, they would've laughed you down and likely taken you as a slave & stolen all the women in your family.
It's only really industrialism made by colonial empires that made slavery no longer necessary ironically.
In terms of ending legal slavery, we English really did the whole world a favour that we shouldn't have bothered with.
"And using a buzzword like TDS to dismiss accountability is a classic cop out." So you're now denying that you leftoids and the entire media have been constantly villainising and being contrarian to everything Trump does, who himself is nowhere near as far right as the average right wing voter.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@Friendlybro79
"Blindly worshiping any politician" the greatest irony about this statement is you are a fucking idiot for claiming that I worshipping Trump to begin with.
Why? Because it's you unironically doing exactly what you accused me of and baseless presuming I support Trump as I'm not a part of your shitlib cult. It's massive intellectual laziness from you yet you have the gall to say I am being intellectual lazy.
"Letting another man do your thinking for you is peak beta behavior." Yeah I'm sure someone who believes in the ancient English gods, hates every modern right wing movement for not being far right enough & adopts the most controversial beliefs out can hold is just letting other men do the thinking for me despite the fact I have nothing to gain. That means either you presume I am subhuman or you're subhuman yourself.

[Friendlybro79]

@Wodens_Apprentice you're completely unhinged and honestly your violent rhetoric is very telling. I'm not going to reply to all of your rant but here's why you will tolerate the left. Because there's nothing you could do to take our rights away because you don't like us. You act like you're going to actually do any of the powerful I'm an alpha man things you say. How are 26 are you so hateful, violent, ignorant, and psychotic. What cult took you in? Bro get some air, get some help, and get bent.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@Friendlybro79 Oh no we absolutely can tske your rights away because we can just copy the methods you leftists have been doing to us.
Social isolation, public humiliation, doxxing and harassment from the media and shaming. Also whenever you criticise the English, Americans, Anglo-Saxons or white people we can just slap you with hate speech laws but make sure only the founding stock of a nation is protected.
You gave us the tools, mate.
So when you left are wondering why the right turned violent, ignorant and psychotic well... Don't just look at how you censored but all of the minorities your side and the judges defend, covers up and lighter sentences for cultural reasons.
Look up Rotherham, Rochdale, Charlene Downes (I'm from the area a girl was chopped up and put into a kebab for public consumption) and just pick any English city really. The grooming gangs practically run our now damned country.
When a man sees his people being oppressed, slaughtered and raped it brings reason out of him. There's many who feel the way I do.

[Friendlybro79]

@Wodens_Apprentice Bro get help. You're sick. You need to start understanding that some people, no matter what political affiliation they associate with do bad things. That doesn't make everyone associated with that political ideology bad. People on the right commit heinous crimes too. That doesn't mean we should take the rights or kill all the people on the right. Seriously get help not joking, no sarcasm and feel free to end the dialogue. I won't be replying to you. There's no point. You're lost in a land of violence and hate.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@Friendlybro79 But you leftists have all treated us like subhumans, especially the left from America. They had no mercy for us and have been trying to constantly destroy everything that makes the Wests unique heritage since WW2 and in Russia's case even before.
Look at how much leftists hate Trump supporters, yet a Trump supporter still fights to defend their rights.
I'm not the person who cares about rights and the average leftist should perhaps start seeing Trump's voters as potential allies.
This is because they have more in common with Trump voters yet Trump voters feel more safe and free to express their opinions to "radicals" like me.
The alt right is flanking the left on tolerance now that I think about it.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Anything you're seeing he's always been. If you didn't see it from the start lying under the surface, that's on you. He might be getting more emboldened though now. He cannot be re-elected without a little fat being trimmed from the constitution and he knows that. The worst thing he can face is prison. But that won't be till after he leaves office. And that's assuming some idiot doesn't shoot him first. As far as prison goes, He can afford the lawyers, and we've yet to jail a president. I think he thinks he has that card in his back pocket. Trump is thinking about his legacy right now. And like all his casinos he wants it to be in big neon lights.

Trump isn't unhinged. He's very calculating. He just knows he has half of th country supporting him whatever he wants to do. Not because he's a great leader. But because he makes decisive moves. Sometimes so crazy that other countries are afraid of provoking him at this point. They don't want to be in the crosshairs next. And that works right up to the point the whole world agree together they've had ENOUGH. Fortunately for Trump and the United States the entire world cannot agree on ANYTHING.

[darkcloud1945]

Have you never said something stupid during a conversation in your life? He is also capable of saying something inappropriate, just like every other human being on earth. BUT BECAUSE TRUMP SAID IT, HE IS A NAZI, FASCIST, UNHINGED RACIST, ETC, ETC, ETC

[Twalli]

The difference is that Trump says it. If you think it, that might not be a good thing, but at least you aren't saying it. Yes, others think the same things Trump says, but they're smart enough not to say it.

[darkcloud1945]

@T The only people unhinged are the DEMOCRATIC COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA, the destroyers of AMERICA

[SofaKingsMart]

@darkcloud1945
And WRITING in CAPITALS just proves I’M RIGHT!

Right?

[darkcloud1945]

@SofaKingsMart WRONG!

[Twalli]

@darkcloud1945 well, thrn it's goid pur communist party is not a major party and generally doesn't field a candidate.

[darkcloud1945]

@Twalli That's what you think; just look at the gov of New Jersey, who campaigned on one thing, after the election went all in on communism fucking every New Jerseyan who thought she was a moderate, but we see now she is a communist like the rest of the party that is leaning more and more every day

[OneViewpoint]

Yes. He's always been a mentally ill moron. Now he's emboldened by a corrupt Republican Party and Supreme Court. Traitors have enabled the overthrow of the US government. Look to the money behind Project 2025 for the source of the treason.

[BonzoInBitburg]

It's probably a shorter list to name the countries he hasn't threatened. He's not someone stable enough to deal with on a serious level which is why most wealthy countries are ignoring him and are planning on a future without US relations.

[indissoluble]

Nope, it seems like you are becoming more unhinged as time passes. You should probably check into the mental health wing of a hospital. You sound suicidal.

[SofaKingsMart]

@indissoluble

LMAO

I bet you believe 8647 is a death threat too, dontcha? 🤦🏻‍♀️

[indissoluble]

@SofaKingsMart You live in your own brainwashed world. Not everyone is programmed by media like you to pay attention to distractions. Look over there a squirrel.

[jshm2]

No. He always was. But his dementia is getting worse, so he has a lot less filter and cannot comprehend half the shit he spouts.

In his addled mind , Trump thinks he is Obama.

[DonaldDarko]

No but all the commies with TDS sure are. They're bat shit now.

[FunkyMonkee]

Nope! Not at all!! But the loony lefties sure as fuck are!!!

[slatyb]

Duuuh. He's suffering from some sort of progressive dementia. They don't get matter.

[exitseven]

No, he just has a lot to do and not much time to do it.

[Alex-Snow]

The idiot scares the crap out of me. Grandpa Trump needs to retire

[Asker]

I find him more gross than scary

[Alex-Snow]

That also... a fat, old, mentally unfit orange man

[darkcloud1945]

Just like Obama and Sleepy Joe Biden scare the crap out of me still, because of the far-reaching policies they instituted. OBAMACARE, BIDEN'S OPEN BORDERS, the misplacement of three hundred thousand missing children; eleven hundred kids were staying at one address, a private house, and you can keep your doctors and insurance, and our kids cannot read, write, spell, do basic math, and do not know basic history. The teachers' union is teaching DEI and woke, and not teaching what should be taught in school scares me

[Twalli]

I honestly think he has dementia. I wish he doesn't. I mean I would still think he's an idiot and not a good president, but at least he wouldn't be mentally unwell.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I think a little bit. I still voted for him though.

[strateguy632]

you hid the unhinged thing oman said.

[darkcloud1945]

Never heard you complain about an unhinged Biden for four years- his babbling and walking into the woods at official functions, falling up stairs etc., etc., etc., etc., etc

[Dargil]

With good reason.

[_Jenny_]

Yes but I don’t follow politics

[Wodens_Apprentice]

He's being blackmailed by Jewish people.

[Pterodon]

Nope

[Wodens_Apprentice]

You gotta admit his sudden warhawk turn is proof he's no different then how he pushed for vaccines. Trump used to be a democratic by the way, which means he used to be on the same size as those who are trying to flood the west with other races.

[Pterodon]

No I don’t have to admit anything

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@Pterodon Yeah you probably buy into the holocaust mythology that's the foundation of western democracy now. White man evil and should take in anyone so long as they fit adapt our culture (which they don't care about).

[Pterodon]

Shut up

[oldman26]

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