Donald Trump just quit his war because he got bored.
The war is a strategic catastrophe, gas is like $5 a gallon, it’s blatantly illegal and destroying the economic future of this country. Nah, who cares? It’s just boring. He got on the phone with CNBC and said, “Honestly. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.” Like he’s watching a filler episode of Heated Rivalry. That’s the commander in chief in a war he started on behalf of Israel against America’s interests, as we waste our entire weapons arsenal, only to give up almost immediately after losing at every conceivable level. An embarrassment.
He didn’t just lose interest, he’s actively losing, and that’s his only kryptonite. No plan, no objective, no authorization, and now the Strait of Hormuz is a parking lot, oil spiked 8% percent in a single afternoon, and even his own party is done holding the bag as voters look at gas prices in disgust. So he’s doing the only thing he knows how to do when he’s losing. He’s pretending he wanted to leave the whole time. The talks got boring. He’s taking his ball and going home. Again. And Again. And Again.
Look at what’s actually happening in the Senate. For months Republicans lined up like good little minions and killed every single war powers resolution Democrats put in front of them. Then slowly it began dawning on them what this war really means. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul at first, now Bill Cassidy, who Trump just primaried into the ground, walked right onto the floor and voted yes, because what’s Trump going to do, threaten their careers?
And over in the House it’s even more pathetic, because last month Mike Johnson had a war powers vote scheduled and then yanked it off the floor at the last second. Why? Because he knew he was going to lose. He knew there were enough Republicans ready to cross the aisle and vote to take Trump’s war away from him, or at the very least embarrass him, and it’s not clear which one would be worse for Trump, or for that matter, his lapdog Mike. That vote is coming back this month, by the way. The recess is over and the vote is waiting.
So put it together. Trump’s own Republicans are about to vote, in public, with their names attached, to strip him of a war he is personally losing. And right on cue, the very same day, here he is on CNBC basically saying, “The negotiations? Oh those, yeah I don’t care, those got boring, I was barely paying attention.” He’s quitting before getting fired, and tweeting 56 times in one day on his way out the door.
He is literally telling us he doesn’t care about us at all. They asked him about gas prices, about Americans getting crushed financially, and his answer is, “Once you explain that this is all about Iran having a nuclear weapon, people are willing to pay a little bit more.” He floated a fantasy about gas dropping to a buck eighty-five like it was in Iowa, and then says NATO is weak and sad and he doesn’t need them anyway. The whole thing is a man who has no idea what he’s doing narrating his own collapse in a way that makes him look addled and delusional.
This is what losing looks like when you’re a narcissist. Republicans are running for the exits, the war he picked is bleeding him dry, and the strongman’s big final move is to call the whole thing boring and hang up the phone. He didn’t end the war. He just rage-quit and called everyone a loser on his way out.
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