Gingrich Wants Trump to Create a New Waterway Using Nukes

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

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Newt Gingrich, leading GOP intellectual, wants to nuke the Persian Gulf.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a supporter of President Donald Trump, shared a post on X stating that "thermonuclear detonations" could create a new waterway as disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz continue amid the Iran war. "Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you've got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks

The brain dead------------------- will seriously consider nutty Newt's ------- crazy idea.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-17 12:55 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-17 01:04 AM | Reply

Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we could simply be energy independent.

But Republicans will never support American independence from Middle East oil.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-17 01:24 AM | Reply

Be even faster if we nuked through the center of the Earth! Plus, we could use gravity to pull us through to the other side.

Thank you for attending my TED Talk.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2026-03-17 03:42 AM | Reply

There's another person who's grave will become one of the largest unisex bathrooms on the planet.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-03-17 07:04 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

lol... he must be on the Epstein list... or mad he isn't...because he just found out he never got invited...

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-03-18 05:37 PM | Reply

He wasn't called Nutty Nuke, er, Newt, for nothing.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-18 05:42 PM | Reply

Some points on his new canal route are 3500 feet above sea level. How big of a nuke is he planning on using?

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-18 05:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Gingrich's ego has apparently eaten his brain.

#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-03-18 06:24 PM | Reply

How dumb are MAGA?

#10 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-03-18 06:33 PM | Reply

Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we could simply be energy independent.
But Republicans will never support American independence from Middle East oil.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-17 01:24 AM | Reply | Flag:

Republicans have created defacto independence from Middle East oil, for the next 2-3 months likely at the minimum.

#11 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-18 07:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 5 | Newsworthy 1

Battery car economics are looking at lot more favorable.

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-18 07:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

So Much Winning!

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-18 07:31 PM | Reply

Good god, Mewt is as dementia'd as Trump.

#14 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-03-18 11:07 PM | Reply

Georgia's two dimmist bulbs-Gingrich and Tumorville.

#15 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2026-03-19 03:01 AM | Reply

Newt--still trying to hold onto a shred of relevance years after the world moved on from this fat, drunken philanderer...

#16 | Posted by catdog at 2026-03-19 12:07 PM | Reply

"A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you've got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez"

That's pretty specific for something so complex. Newt must have put a lot of thought into this. Maybe... three seconds?

#17 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-03-19 01:26 PM | Reply

@#17 ... That's pretty specific for something so complex. Newt must have put a lot of thought into this. Maybe... three seconds? ...

My first question --- which country's land is the US going to steal to make this new waterway?

#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-19 01:32 PM | Reply

which country's land is the US going to steal to make this new waterway?

The UAE.

#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-19 01:42 PM | Reply

Invest in companies that make boring machines.

#20 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-03-19 02:20 PM | Reply

Yeah, no. fElon Musk proved that shit don't work.

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-19 02:37 PM | Reply