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Trump would rather side with Iran than a blue state

Trump would rather side with Iran than a blue state

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/31/800077928/news/trump-minnesota-iran-water-hack/ 

Trump would rather side with Iran than a blue state

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A water tower is seen Thursday, July 30, 2026, in Plymouth, Minn. A cyberattack targeted the operating technology at over 30 water systems in Minnesota, including Plymouth's, earlier this week, state officials said. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)
A water tower is seen on July 30 in Plymouth, Minnesota. A cyberattack targeted the operating technology at over 30 water systems in Minnesota, including Plymouth’s, earlier this week, state officials said.AP

Earlier this week, more than 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota came under a coordinated cyberattack, one that both U.S. and state officials suspect is the work of Iranian hackers. But if you think a president currently engaged in a war against Iran would therefore condemn the attacks, you’d be wrong. 

President Donald is blaming Minnesota. 

“We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don’t think so, I think I blame it on Minnesota because they’re grossly incompetent,” he said during a Cabinet meeting on Friday. “​​There was a cyberattack of 30 water plants and I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota. They like to say, ‘Oh, it was Iran.’ Iran should be so lucky. Iran’s got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.”

This is unhinged. Driven by his loathing for Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz for the crime of being on the presidential ticket that ran against him in 2024, and by his loathing for Minnesotans for standing up to his murderous immigration thugs, Trump is defending the honor of Iran—the country he is bombing.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House about Dulles International Airport modernization, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump, shown on July 29.AP

It’s also unhinged because Trump’s own federal government has been warning about this possibility for months. 

In April, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with the FBI, the National Security Agency, and others, published a joint advisory warning that Iran-affiliated hackers were targeting water and wastewater systems by trying to compromise internet-connected devices, such as controllers that allow remote management of water equipment. And Minnesota officials have stated that these new attacks did just that. 

Wired obtained communications to members of the Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry group, saying that the Minnesota Fusion Center, the state’s umbrella intelligence-sharing entity, had issued an alert and found the attacks were likely “aligned” with this Iran-affiliated hacking campaign.

The reported lack of a ransom demand to the affected areas also points to Iran, with the goal of the attacks seeming to be disruption, not financial gain as with ransomware attacks on municipalities. Additionally, we know Iran has been launching cyberattacks since Trump’s war began, including successfully hitting Stryker, a major medical equipment company, in March.

Of course, Iran-linked hackers also successfully broke into FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account earlier this year, releasing photos of the incompetent dork sniffing Cuban cigars and looking at himself in the mirror. 

Despite all this, and despite the fact that at least seven states have been impacted by the recent cyberattacks, per the FBI, Trump is so blind with hatred that he’s siding with Iran here. So now we have the ridiculous specter of Trump declaring that Iran is not to blame even as CISA, his own cyber defense agency, issued a new alert on Thursday, warning of an increase in actors targeting water infrastructure.  

It’s just the latest instance of the crumbling of federalism, of Trump using the federal government as a weapon against Democratic-run states. This is no different than his refusal to grant disaster aid to blue states while giving it to red ones, no different than the Department of Justice admitting in court that it stripped energy grants from states based on whether they voted for Trump. 

What’s the plan here, really? Does the federal government now stop working with Minnesota on this because the crumbling madman in the White House must be appeased? Do we have to now all pretend that there is no coordinated Iranian hacking campaign? Do red states get assistance from the federal government to combat this while blue states twist in the wind? 

We’ll just have to wait and see, apparently, but this is no way to run a country.

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  1. Comment by WawaintheBay.

    I think he is in league with Iran and Russia. He defended Russia’s hacking and now he’s doing it for Iran.

    If you look at this war and the outcome, Russia and Iran are actually better off. And now the people of Israel and Palestine are as unprotected as they’ve been in decades.

    We are now the third spoke in the Axis of Evil.

  2. Comment by RedboatSuperior.

    An attack on municipal infrastructure from any foreign nation is a national security issue and therefore the responsibility of the Federal Government to respond. Yet another example of how Trump does not take his job seriously. If there was a data breach from foreign countries that is on him.

  3. Comment by Betty Lou.

    Someone should ask him if the water problem happened in Florida would you blame Desantis instead of Iran? His answer would be, what a stupid question and he'd ask who do you work for, then it would be it's a failing news station blah blah blah. Anything but blame a governor from a red state!!

  4. Comment by NicktheGolfer.

    It is simple: Trump, the Criminal, hates America.

  5. Comment by Digler.

    Trump farts then blames the dog. Typical

    Lather rinse repeat

  6. Comment by thanxamillion.

    Another motive for Trump not wanting to blame Iran for the hack could be, he will be blamed for it because it is his failed war that in exposing Americans to these problems.

    It all falls in line with Trump’s strategy for dealing with any problem. If he denies there is a problem, it’s not his problem.

    Election? I didn’t lose the Election because it’s rigged.

    Covid? There is no Covid because we’re not testing.

    War? This isn’t a War, it’s an Excursion/Cease Fire/ Whatever.

    Hacking Water Systems? There’s not hacking of Water Systems.

    Climate Change causing Fires? Canada needs to rake their forests.

  7. Comment by The Lone Apple.

    What Trump said at that display of brain damage called a press conference was nothing less than un-American. It was anti-American. I guarantee that the only thing he would care about is if the Iranians hacked into Mar a Lago and messed with the golf reservations.

    • Reply by thanxamillion.

      🤯 That would call for a Nuclear Response!

    • Reply by madatyou.

      I just backed up and re-read the post to look for the press conference and possibly a link to it. There is no, none, not a single mention of a press conference in the above post.

  8. Comment by IowaBiologist.

    Does this story really need this stock photo of trump?

    • Reply by The Lone Apple.

      My bile rising would say no, but since it's a recent photo, it shows his continued deterioration.

  9. Comment by LeMoJoust.

    Lard Lad lives if the "rural diner" of his own mind. The feckless New York Times would allegedly write about the diner they visited in Possum Nutz Ohio full of KKK, lily white half-wits, & Nazis, but drawn to the Cheeto- pedo because of "economic uncertainty." No matter the gibberish the pathetic media will be there to have his back & mine the clicks of pure gold. Why quit the freakshow when it's so much profitable & so much fun. What would they write about President Harris? They'd have to create controversy like they did with President Biden, remember, his dog didn't like the Secret Service, who turned out to be fascists.

  10. Comment by Jim McHenry.

    At this stage, do we really expect anything other than this from an incompetent dumbass like Donald Trump? He "thinks" that everyone is like him in his comments that Iran "has bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota" because he can't have anymore than one thought at any one time going on in his big brain, neither can anyone else. I am still perplexed how Donald Fucking Trump is POTUS. This is still, even 10 years into this mess, like something from an alternate timeline in a sci fi. movie.

  11. Comment by Velvetfish.

    What this demonstrates is that even for national security, states can not rely on Trump to do his job. Minnesota and other blue states need to start thinking about setting up parallel systems to catch the problems that come as a result of Trump's incompetence. Campaign on it as yet another means of demonstrating how pathetic this administration is about everything.

  12. Comment by zoom314.

    I'm surprised Trump hasn't declared Blue States to be Disloyal to Trump...

    • Reply by notusuallyhere.

      Not only is Chicago disloyal, we are continually irritated by Trump Tower in the Loop, one of Trump's last erections

    • Reply by thanxamillion.

      We see what you did there. 🍄

    • Reply by Adammc2112.

      Tick tock…tick tock…

  13. Comment by notusuallyhere.

    I went to Macalester College in Minnesota until graduating 1979. We had several Iranians who were unable to go back to Iran after the revolution. No love lost between these students and the government of Iran. You would have to look far and wide to find people with more reason to hate the Iranian government.

  14. Comment by Aspiring Polymath.

    Those danged Iranians are just really cagey aren't they. Looks like they can read Trump's mind. Maximum disruption, attack blue states. Trump does nothing and the disaffection of people in swing and blue states just gets worse.

    • Reply by A Noah Count.

      A 'Dick and Jane' primer is harder to read than that idiot's mind.

  15. Comment by swkirby.

    I remain ever hopeful.

    Just a reminder, folks.

    • Reply by A Noah Count.

      Every morning, so far, when I log on, I get disappointed.

  16. Comment by getplaning.

    He sided with Russia.

    Now he's siding with Iran.

    The articles just write themselves.

    • Reply by A Noah Count.

      One would think the Democratic Party's ADS would write themselves!

      But, Heaven forbid the Democratic Party's leadership be so "divisive."

  17. Comment by blastrock.

    “We’ll just have to wait and see, apparently, but this is no way to run a country.”

    Unless you mean to run it into the ground.

    • Reply by AnotherOklahoman.

      That’s their plan.

    • Reply by thanxamillion.

      By “their” I think you mean Putin and Trump. I agree. Not joking.

  18. Comment by yunohu.

    Wow! When I first heard this claim, I assumed iit was Trump falsely accusing Iran in order to get Minnesotans or blue states angry at Iran. So this angle is a complete surprise, but at least as appalling. Maybe in reality it is a false flag, perpetrated by this regime against Minnesota & blamed on Iran. Now that sounds most like what this regime would do.

  19. Comment by oldcrow.

    Until his second misadministration, Trump was a fake billionaire, with a negative balance sheet. His current run of graft and extortion has made him a billionaire, but his narcissism and sociopathy result in strange actions and statements. Minnesota should seek to join Canda, an honestly run nation, because we won't get anything but abuse from the Trump regime.

    • Reply by oldcrow.

      Canada

    • Reply by Pittwoman.

      I have been saying that for forty years. Minnesota doesn’t have to put up with all the federal bs.

  20. Comment by fredmonger.

    Yeah, I'm from Minnesota and I'm among the so fucking stupid class that we sabotaged our own water supply. Thanks Donnie. At least Iran didn't vote for Harris, right?

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