Donald Trump deflected responsibility for misleading Americans about the length of the Iran war, dismissed low poll ratings as “fake numbers” and refused to rule out the possibility of declaring a state of emergency before the midterms, in a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine.

When confronted with questions about the length of the Iran war, the US president blamed the media for reporting his remarks in which he said the conflict was projected to last “four to five weeks”, in March.

“ … I think the press fed it to them,” Trump told Time when asked whether Americans misunderstood him.

  • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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    ok, but then that has extra tax attached (assuming, as I’m not in the US, that is like the UK where red diesel doesn’t have all the road tax attached.) Here in NZ it is all ‘white’ diesel and Road User Tax is separate

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      19 hours ago

      Not correct. Putting in the red die is just an indicator of how it is taxed.

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        the red die is to indicate untaxed, it will stain fuel filters on road vehicles to show that untaxed diesel has been used, at least that is how it us used elsewhere

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          20 hours ago

          Yes that is what I said. Again, there is nothing special about it. You just get more die and make more red diesel. It’s all the same supply.