Bigmouth Strikes Again

A running list of the dumbest things Trump has said about the war in Iran

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Winston Churchill.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In times of war, some leaders demonstrate a strength of character and an ability to inspire their people in ways that define them for the rest of history.

And then there's Donald Trump.

Riding high on Election Night in 2024, Trump vowed, "I'm not going to start wars. I'm going to stop wars."

Today, though, he's a frantic psychopath who would rather blow up the world than face accountability for the heinous Epstein-related child-sex crimes a majority of reasonable people (including 86% of Democrats, 51% of Independents and 29% of non-MAGA Republicans) believe he was involved in.

Trump's former best friend speculated in December 2018 that if "cornered like a rat," Trump would "bomb Iran."

Now that Trump has fulfilled that prophecy, he is proving once again just how dumb, selfish, and lacking in empathy he truly is.

Here's a running list of the dumbest and most tone-deaf things Trump has said about the war in Iran

February 28: "Last June, we obliterated the regime's nuclear program."

February 28: "We're doing this not for now. We're doing this for the future."

February 28: "The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war."

February 28 (to the Iranian people): "Stay sheltered. Don't leave your home. It's very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government."

March 1 (on news of the first US casualties): "Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is."

March 2: "Somebody said today, they said, ‘Oh, well, the president wants to do it really quickly, after that, he’ll get bored.’ I don’t get bored. There’s nothing boring about this."

March 2 (shortly after saying he won't get bored of the war): "See that nice drape... I picked those drapes in my first term. I always like gold."

March 2 (on Truth Social): "Wars can be fought 'forever,' and very successfully."

March 3: “I have never had more compliments on something I did.”

March 3: “The worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person. That could happen.... you go through this and then in five years, you realize you put somebody in who was no better."

March 4: "When crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen."

March 4: "We're doing well on the war front, to put it mildly. Somebody said on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I said about a 15."

March 4 (inadvertently suggesting he allowed Iran to get closer to a nuclear weapon than any previous US President): "If we didn't hit, within two weeks they would've had a nuclear weapon."

March 5 (on gas prices): "If they rise, they rise."

March 5 (when asked if Americans should worry about terror strikes at home): "I guess."

March 5 (to Jonathan Karl): "In my first term, I built the military. In my second term I'm using it."

I created a similar list to the one above at the start of Covid. As I did then, I'll add to this new list in the days ahead.

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