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Trump’s Victory Lap Lasted Less Than A Day Before Iranian Gunboats Opened Fire In The Strait Of Hormuz And Reminded The World That Reality Does Not Bend To Boasts
Yesterday, Donald Trump stood before the cameras and talked like the Middle East had been tamed, like the Strait of Hormuz problem was completely handled, like Iran had blinked, backed down, and accepted the new reality. Multiple outlets reported that Trump publicly celebrated the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and claimed Iran had effectively accepted key U.S. demands, including never closing the strait again. Iranian officials, however, were already disputing those claims almost immediately, warning that any opening was conditional and temporary. Now look at what happened today.
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” Psalm 146:3 (KJB)
Iranian gunboats opened fire on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz after Tehran reimposed restrictions, with AP reporting that at least one tanker came under fire and another Indian-flagged supertanker was also shot at, forcing vessels to turn around. Britain’s maritime monitors described multiple incidents involving gunfire and projectiles near the strait. So much for “problem solved.” Just about anyone who knows anything about the Middle East as it relates to Iran knows that the Iranian regime are psychopathic liars who cannot be trusted with anything at any time. Any statement that includes the words “Iran has agreed to…” is nonsensical and is dismissed out of hand.
Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, works both ways, and if you believe everything he says, guess what? You have it.
This is the same pattern we have seen over and over again with Trump on foreign policy. He talks in grand, sweeping declarations of delusion. He boasts. He frames unstable situations as settled victories before the smoke has even cleared. He wants the headline first and the reality later. But reality has a way of showing up with a knife, and in this case it showed up with Iranian gunboats firing on tankers in one of the most strategically important waterways on earth.
President Donald Trump’s handling of the war he started in Iran is reprehensible, despicable and a slap in the face to the memory of the 13 soldiers who died at his incompetent orders. He has never been more worthy and deserving of impeachment than he is right now. @POTUS pic.twitter.com/ITKWOMnmm9
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And let’s be honest about what this means. If Iran is once again using force to control passage through Hormuz, then Trump did not solve the crisis. He didn’t pacify it. He didn’t neutralize it. He merely talked as though he had. AP reports that Tehran explicitly reversed course on reopening the strait and declared that control had returned to Iran’s armed forces under a “new Maritime Regime,” while Trump simultaneously insisted the U.S. blockade would remain in place unless a broader agreement is reached. That is not peace. That is not stability. That is a powder keg with two hands on the fuse.
This is what happens when political theater tries to pass itself off as statecraft.
The Strait of Hormuz is not some campaign prop. Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil moves through that choke point, and any serious disruption there threatens shipping, insurance markets, fuel prices, and regional military escalation. When a president starts thundering that the matter is effectively settled, but within hours commercial ships are being fired upon and reversing course, that is not strength. That is exposed weakness dressed up in bravado.
What makes it worse is the timing. Trump’s rhetoric yesterday helped create the impression that Iran had folded, that American pressure had forced compliance, and that the crisis was winding down. Yet the reporting today shows the exact opposite: Iran is still defiant, still armed, still willing to challenge freedom of navigation, and still setting its own conditions in direct contradiction to Trump’s rosy public claims.
Trump may be able to dominate a news cycle with oversized claims, but he cannot command reality into submission by sheer force of his massive ego. Iran didn’t read the script. they didn’t honor the boast. Iran answered the Trump swagger with gunfire. And now the whole world can see, in real time, that the “solution” Trump seemed so eager to advertise yesterday was no solution at all. This is why serious people do not celebrate before the facts are in. This is why statesmen speak carefully when the region is one bad decision away from catastrophe. And this is why boastful declarations from politicians should always be measured against the next day’s headlines. In this case, the next day’s headlines have rendered the verdict with brutal clarity: Trump claimed victory before there was one, where is is none.
BREAKING NEWS: Strait of Hormuz under FULL Iranian control
‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-hosts discuss a report that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and under full IRGC control. Listen as the dumbfounded hosts struggle to comprehend how Iran still retains as much military control after Trump repeatedly said they were “decimated” and “obliterated”. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
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