Faye and David 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @sixfamily.bsky.social · 07/10/20263/10 The quote being circulated is: "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego." Read by itself, it sounds shocking. But serious analysis requires reading the surrounding remarks, not just the most inflammatory sentence. 100
Faye and David 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @sixfamily.bsky.social · 07/10/20264/10 Immediately before those remarks, Trump was discussing the economic costs of the war with Iran and arguing that those costs were "a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe." 100
Faye and David 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @sixfamily.bsky.social · 07/10/20265/10 The key question is this: What was the "small price to pay"? The surrounding context suggests he was referring to economic disruption, higher costs, and the burdens associated with the conflict. 110
