Trump claims that he issued the order to bomb Iran because they were a few days away from producing a nuclear weapon. He lies . . . as usual.
Trump bombed Iran because he was pissed off at the way the world reacted to his recent failures. It wasn’t strategy, but ego.
Trump pulled the trigger following two globally embarrassing events.
FIRST: His $45 million military parade had just become an international joke (a joke outside Fox, of course).
SECOND: Equally awful for a strongman, Trump was roundly embarrassed at the G7 meeting in Canada while Netanyahu was enjoying extraordinary success in Iran.
In a grossly under-reported story, Trump said he left the G7 early to “deal with” the Israel-Iran situation, which meant posting childish and impulsive braggadocio on truth social. He beat his breast hard enough to signal Iran to move its 900 lb stash of enriched uranium before we bombed, putting Israel—and us—in further danger, the contours of which are not yet known.
Global press rejected Trump’s explanation for leaving the G7 early, reporting instead that he left early because the adults in the room refused to show him artificial deference. During the G7 opening press conference, Trump went on a tirade about the press and his other usual enemies so bizarre that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney interrupted him and ended the press conference. The Italian Prime Minister was seen rolling her eyes, and the world laughed at Trump’s petty insults against France’s Prime Minister Macron, of whom Trump appears to be jealous.
After all that, Trump tried to flex mob-boss strength to the press, announcing that the British Prime Minister had earned a trade framework protecting British trade because “I like them, that’s why. That’s their ultimate protection.” Those sound like words from a man who knows he’s just been insulted by people he doesn’t like.
Humiliated on the global stage by both events, which were NOT REPORTED TO viewers at Fox, Trump desperately needed to recast himself as a strongman for the rest of the world. Some have speculated with credible evidence that Trump resented watching Netanyahu get all the glory, especially after it became clear that Israel’s aggression against Iran had been spectacularly successful. On June 13, while Israel’s bombs were falling, Trump told New York Times reporter Helene Cooper that he still held his “America First” isolationist, perspective.
The next day, however, after a full day of watching Fox lavish Netanyahu with praise, Trump changed his mind, even though no new intelligence had come in, and Israel was already winning its fight. One official told the NYT that Trump’s shift in attitude started early in the morning when he woke up and watched Fox News. When he saw how Netanyahu was being praised (so powerful, so strategic!), he wanted in on the action. The unnamed official stated that, “Israel was hitting all of these Iranian sites, it was taking out military commanders, nuclear scientists, and that was being presented on Fox as this huge victory. And (Trump) decided that he wanted a piece of it.”
In further support of this theory, Trump also started taking immediate credit for Israel’s success. He claimed on June 17 in a truth social post, days before bombing, that, “We” have taken control of Iran’s airspace,” and that a meeting with his national security advisers had cemented the decision to enter the war.
And there you have it folks – the most powerful nation on Earth is being “governed” by a person who is mentally a slow-learning 12-yer-old mixed with the self-control of a two-year-old.