As we discussed here earlier this week, Trump blew off the spike in oil prices after he shredded his own ceasefire with Iran. And Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei pledged to take revenge for his father’s death during his funeral earlier this week.
Trump escalated things in response, posting that missiles “are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to follow immediately, should the Iranian Government act on its threat,” on Truth Social.
But over in upside-down land on Fox, that’s all great news. Here’s Trump’s NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker on this Saturday’s Fox & Friends Weekend assuring his cult that everything’s going swimmingly and calling the US launching airstrikes on 90 targets “peace through strength.”
HURT: To your point, I want to play a clip of protesters chanting death to America at the Al Khomeini’s funeral watch. […]
Obviously, this has been a long-term goal of Iran, but it does kind of make me wonder whether the degree to which Iranian officials have miscalculated this president.
Obviously, the president, you know, it’s the summer before an election, he would like to wrap this thing up. They’re playing games in the strait, and president Trump is striking back.
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