“We won,” the President who’s treating the conflict with Iran like a video game says, but “we’re not finished yet.”
By Susan B. Glasser
Source photograph by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty
In Donald Trump’s first term, he might have live-tweeted the war in Iran. These days, his presence on Truth Social, the social-media platform that he owns, is more targeted at Trump superfans, many of whom are not entirely enthusiastic about their MAGA leader’s decision to launch a new war of choice in the Middle East. Despite the conflict, Trump has kept up a prolific pace of posting in recent days, but the message to his followers has strongly suggested that he is anything but consumed by the burden of commanding a conflict that has, in not even two weeks, killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, unleashed the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market, spread to at least ten additional countries across the region, and cost American taxpayers more than eleven billion dollars and counting.
Instead, he’s relayed his observations about recent “politically suicidal” comments by Gavin “Newscum,” in what was maybe “the most self-destructive interview I’ve ever seen”; bragged about plans to save the Great Lakes from a plague of “rather violent and destructive Asian Carp”; endorsed various Republican congressional candidates, including a challenger to one of Trump’s only remaining public critics inside the G.O.P., the “Worst ‘Congressman’ EVER,” Thomas Massie; and circulated articles about Hillary Clinton, Larry Summers, alleged noncitizen voters, the “rigged” 2020 election, and the “misfit” who will be the new chair of Harvard’s history department.
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