Trump’s alternate reality on the Iran war

However one feels about the strategic and moral wisdom of the Iran war, it’s indisputable that President Donald Trump’s commentary on it has been confusing, inconsistent and contradictory.

“However one feels about the strategic and moral wisdom of the Iran war, it’s indisputable that President Donald Trump’s commentary on it has been confusing, inconsistent and contradictory”

CNN

It often looks a lot like the man leading the war effort isn’t terribly clued in on or curious about the details.

CNN

Monday, more than any day so far, epitomized this.

Across a pair of public appearances, Trump assured that he didn’t need advisers to help him make decisions.

Then he cast a widely anticipated Iranian response of attacking its Gulf neighbors — something those advisers surely would have told him about — as something that nobody could possibly have anticipated.

CNN

But his comments about making decisions on his own are merely the latest indicator that decisions aren’t necessarily being made based on expertise.

“However one feels about the strategic and moral wisdom of the Iran war, it’s indisputable that President Donald Trump’s commentary on it has been confusing, inconsistent and contradictory”

CNN

Perhaps Trump really believes that and has acted accordingly — even as he’s undertaken the most serious of presidential decisions, to risk American lives in an unpredictable war in the Middle East.