If you had any doubt that yesterday was April Fool’s Day, I hope you saw Donald Trump’s speech from the White House last night. It may go down in history as one of the worst presidential addresses ever. America has been at war now for over a month and the President of the United States has never explained why. Actually, he’s offered multiple, often conflicting, rationales.
He had a chance last night to level with the American people on where we are in this war and where he expects to go. He abysmally failed. He simply wasted 19 minutes of prime time television with the same contradictions and lies. As an aside, he said inflation is over. No, it’s not, Mr. President. Iran has not had any regime change despite what he says. They’ve just promoted the taxi squad when the first team was killed.
He has not, as promised ended their missile capacity. Missiles were being fired as he was giving his speech. He distorted Obama’s deal with the Iranians some years ago. The money he talked about giving them actually was Iranian frozen assets and the nuclear deal negotiated back then by all accounts was working. On Tuesday, the Straits of Hormuz, which 20 % of the world’s oil supplies flow, he said had to be reopened by Wednesday, it’s no big deal. Let’s remember the Straits were open before Trump went to war.
He still won’t tell us why American blood or treasure should be lost in a region where Saudi Arabia and Israel have far more assets than Iran. What Trump really displayed again last night, he is a commander in chief who has no idea how or what to command.