After traveling all the way to China to be humiliated and returning virtually empty-handed, an exhausted and declining Donald Trump seemed very grumpy, which helped explain why he was in no mood to go home and hear about his biggest self-caused headache.
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David Sanger of the New York Times asked Trump about resuming bombing of Iran: “You did it for 38 days. And you didn’t get any political change in Iran.”
Sanger couldn’t even finish his question before Trump fell in at the deep end:
No, I… I had a total military victory. Not an army- But fake news, guys like you- No… I write badly. You’re a fake guy. Guys like you talk about it incorrectly.
We had a total military victory. We eliminated their entire navy. We eliminated their entire air force. We destroyed all their anti-aircraft weapons. We destroyed all their radars. We eliminated all their leaders, first, and then we eliminated all their leaders in the second division, and we eliminated a lot of their leaders in the third division, and they are very confused. I had a total victory, except because of people like you who don’t write the truth.
It is always astonishing that when Trump starts talking about a total victory, no one stops him to ask why, if there was a total victory in Iran, the same regime is in place, the Strait of Hormuz is closed and gas prices continue to rise.
The war continues and so there has been no total victory.
Trump then became totally delusional: