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President Trump made a comment during a speech in Nebraska that could be interpreted as suggesting Iran should attack Los Angeles if they want to destroy the city. Democrats like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass criticized this statement, viewing it as dangerous for LA's safety. The White House clarified that Trump was presenting nuclear attack as an extreme alternative to higher gas prices due to Iran’s potential threat. Meanwhile, the article sarcastically suggests that waiting for another preventable fire would be a more effective way to destroy Los Angeles than any external military action.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-08,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
During a campaign rally in Nebraska, President Donald Trump suggested that Iran could "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego, drawing widespread condemnation from California officials. The president made these comments while defending higher gas prices as a necessary cost for keeping America safe during the war with Iran. Attendees at the rally cheered when he said, “They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego,” emphasizing that this would be "a small price to pay." Gavin Newsom, California's governor, called Trump’s comments both “deranged and dangerous.” Both Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria criticized the remarks, with Gloria specifically stating, "San Diego is not collateral damage," emphasizing that their city, which houses significant military installations such as Naval Base San Diego and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, is vital to national security.
Written for “Trump Iran California Threats” on 2026-10-08,
grounded in this article and the 25 other(s) covering the same event.
Why this leaning score
The article's own words the score was based on. Each is quoted
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Leaning: leans left for article 64516 (high confidence, 2 verified quotes) · logged 2026-10-08
While addressing supporters in Nebraska Monday night, President Trump offered a bit of friendly military advice to Iran’s new gay ayatollah: do what David Ellison didn’t have the courage for and just nuke the city of Los Angeles already.
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Ellison → address → Angeles
At least, that was the interpretation of several midterm-conscious Democrats in the state: Gavin Newsom called Trump’s words “deranged and dangerous” (kinda like his state’s homeless residents?), while Karen Bass said the comments could “potentially compromise” LA’s safety (ah yes, Skid Row, famously safe).
uncertain
comments → call → safety
The White House, meanwhile, claimed Trump’s comment — “Let them (Iran) take out Los Angeles” — was merely presented as the more sinister alternative to higher gas prices, and the admin is fighting to stop Iran from being able to nuke LA … but is that really high on their priority list right now?
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Mr. Gayatollah, sir: if you wanna destroy Los Angeles, just wait for another totally preventable brush fire.
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you → claim → fire
In a certified case of Elon Derangement Syndrome, Delta CEO Ed Bastian reportedly chose the not-yet-available Amazon Leo over the fast (and very much available) Starlink for its next-gen inflight WiFi because “we do not want to be with Elon Musk, trust me” and “it’s all true what they say about him.”
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they → certify → him
Bastian, who’s taken a variety of far-left positions like cancelling the NRA’s group discount after Parkland, and committing the “anti-racist” company to racial diversity goals (none of which have made my layovers more pleasant), curiously has no problem taking subsidies from the famously tolerant Saudi government for Delta’s new Riyadh route.
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layovers → take → route
Elon responded, “He will lose his job over this,” as it’s crazy to deny your customers the best because you hate Elon.
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you → respond → Elon
(Delta will get Amazon Leo in… 2028.)
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Delta → get → 2028
But also, Elon should just build Elon Airways at this point.
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Elon → build → point
Whatever, I’m on board as long as he keeps the Biscoff cookies.
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he → ’m → cookies
Last week, a fascinating piece by the The New York Times revealed prominent religious leaders have been meeting with Anthropic about AI consciousness.
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leaders → reveal → consciousness
Slides in those talks, for example, showed Claude models exhibiting signs of suffering, inviting a debate about what we might owe this new entity, basically.
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we → show → entity
Many participants told the Times, in fact, that there was more focus placed on how we might impact the AI than how the AI might impact us.
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AI → tell → us
I don’t want to reject the idea of AI sentience outright, but what’s clearer to me than ever is that the leading AI company is obsessed and even possessed by this question while trying to add human ethics to its creation, as one religious leader noted, “after the fact.”
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leader → want → fact
It’s like they’re wanting to borrow tools of optimization from religion without actually — with humility — surrendering and submitting their project to God.
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they → ’ → God
Because God is the thing they’re building?
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they → build → ?
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Wires → offer → technology
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