Well, were you really expecting anything remotely rational or truthful??

As he prepares – regardless of the facts – to claim a victory and after talking to Putin, Trump declaims:-

• Iran was going to attack all of the Middle East and Israel, which would have been wiped out.
• The US has already won in many ways and its military objectives are pretty well complete.
• The Iran war is won, but not won enough.
• It will soon be over but it will end only when I say it does. We are way ahead of our schedule but wrapping it up is all in my mind, nobody else’s.
• They’ve shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it’s going to be the end of that country. . . If they do anything bad, that would be the end of Iran and you’d never hear the name again.
• Yes, I am thinking about taking over the Straits of Hormuz

Commentaries

• Everyone: How can we tell if the objectives are accomplished if we don’t know what they were, beyond appeasing Netanyahu?
• The Guardian: The president sought – and failed – to offer a clear vision for when the largest US intervention in the Middle East in years will end.

Quote

We’ve noticed an interesting pattern – whenever the news gets particularly bad for Trump, Caroline Leavitt’s cult-like obsequiousness gets dialled up to 11.

Query

Is Trump really so keen to garner, one way or another, more power and more money, that he’s totally couldn’t-care-less about how stupid and dishonest he looks and sounds to most of us?

Finally . . .

An unidentified US military commander – in a combat readiness briefing: President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.