DEEPER LIES: Trump Displacement Syndrome Hits MAGA in Bitter Outrage over Betrayals

The Iran War is defeating President Trump as lies upon lies are no longer working for him in markets or with supporters.

David Haggith

For awhile it worked—all too long in fact. The president could lie about negotiations and jar the stock market up and the oil market down. His base, however, was becoming increasingly unruly and some were starting to turn hard against him, but most either forgave the lies or believed them. And then there was this past wee when everything flip-flopped on the King of Flip Flops, and suddenly no one believed him anymore.

Most notably, Trump's pet stock market failed to respond as it finally seemed to figure out that the president’s third revision of his announced plan to destroy all of Iran’s electrical power plants was a string of bluffs. The trail of wartime bluffs became a trail of outright as Trump made up reasons to stall, which went like this: The president told Iran he would destroy all of its power plants if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz in 48 hours. Iran did not open the strait. As the deadline approached, the president announced that fruitful negotiations with the Iranians over the strait and 14 other demands the US was making caused him to postpone his destruction of all power plants for another five days. Iran, however, still did not open the strait, and it said the president was lying. No negotiations of any kind had happened; nor did Iran even have interest in negotiations with the president because, Iran claims, he lies all the time.

As the next deadline neared, the president announced he had decided to postpone his total destruction of Iran’s power plants until ten days because, not only had negotiations gone very well, but Iran was now offering the president a nice present having to do with traffic flow through the strait. He said Iran would be allowing more ships through. Iran did not open the strait, and it did not let more ships through. It said the president was lying about negotiations and that it had no interest in negotiations. In fact, it mocked the president, saying his deeply troubled mind must be negotiating with himself. This time, as if to prove its point, it raised its level of destruction, attacking a US military base in Saudi Arabia, injuring a dozen troops and a number of significant planes:

An Iranian missile strike on a base in Saudi Arabia damaged several military jets and destroyed a valuable E-3 Sentry early warning and control aircraft — the first known combat loss for that type.

The roughly $300 million plane was hit in an attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in recent days, according to a person familiar with the matter asking not to be identified discussing sensitive military operations. Unverified photos of the jet showed its tail completely severed, rendering it unflyable. (MSN) 

 

The damage appears concentrated at the rear of the aircraft, the section that houses the rotating radar dome and the sensitive electronics tied to its surveillance system. (The Daily Mail)  MORE

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