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[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 60 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Does that mean your child can get to be US citizen if you give birth in the strait of Hormuz?

[–] logi@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago

It will be colloquially known as the Birth Canal.

Sorry.

[–] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

I know this is a joke but it’s more likely you’d be a US National, similar to if you were born in American Samoa or Swains Island.

Not at the rate the Right^tm^ keeps fighting birthright citizenship.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago
[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

"I didn't say it, I declared it."

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't it even more humiliating the USA cannot open or guarantee free passage "In ThEiR oWn LaNd"

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a great point. Yeah, ok idiot, let's say it's "ours." Now you just look like some guy who can't keep US military members safe or supplied in, like, Hoboken.

[–] deadlysodium@lemmus.org 34 points 2 days ago

To prove how American and safe it is he should put up a hotel and go live there.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Completely aside from all of the other ridiculous parts of this, how could you declare a strait to be a territory? Sure, there are territorial waters, but the territory itself is always the land next to it, right? Why not just declare Iran itself to be a territory and cut out the middleman, since he clearly doesn't care about losing a global war?

[–] Lord_Fartwad@feddit.uk 23 points 2 days ago
[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

I see two more gulfs of America

[–] DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

He also deleted Qatar and Bahrain, his supposed allies, for some reason.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just declare Iran as US territory and have done with it!

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

Oops all US citizens. I guess we don't need ICE anymore.

[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think he is trying to fix the clusterfuck throwing rolls of paper towels.

[–] subgenius@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Whoa bubba, take the meds.

[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

Mordor is mine!!!

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Greenland is saved! #sarcasm I wonder if anyone has done any planning or put any rational thought into just how this would work…that landing scene at the beginning of the move starship troopers is coming to mind. WTF

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You mean "did Trump think?"

The answer is very obviously, always and everywhere: no

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol obviously no since he is just a mouth piece, but I mean all the yes men/women that surround him…someone somewhere had to have said, this is dumb, right lol?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The woman that made people accept the stuff he decided quit. Apparently because she was left to die on the decoy plane.

[–] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 5 points 2 days ago

Ohh yah, she has been one of the worst liars in the press sec position ever…womder how things will progress from here…do they bring in erika kirk, or another career liar from fox news or just kill off the position and make everyone get the latest whitehouse news from truth social at $100,000 per month fee lol.

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

High risk/high reward anchor baby challenge unlocked.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

High risk, low reward. My damn citizenship is a shackle living outside the US

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What, people in other countries don't find American tourists sexy?

Or is shackling a good thing in this context? 😏