Trump Trots Out Wildly Contradictory Iran War Claims — And Says He Doesn't Care If There's A Peace Deal

A month into his air attacks on Iran and with ground troops en route, Trump continues attacking allies while enriching the purported enemy with billions.

WASHINGTON – America’s NATO allies need to help open the Strait of Hormuz, but it doesn’t matter if they don’t. The war against Iran is already “won,” but thousands of ground troops are on the way there. If there is a peace deal soon, that’s great, but if there isn’t, that’s great, too.

Nearing a month into his war against Iran, President Donald Trump continues verbally attacking U.S. allies while enriching the purported enemy with billions of dollars in sanctions relief while offering no concrete plan to end the conflict.

“They are begging to make a deal, not me. They are begging to make a deal and anybody that saw what was happening over there would understand why they want to make a deal,” Trump said Thursday, adding later: “The reason they want to make a deal is they have been just beat to shit.”

During an hour of monologue and a half-hour question-and-answer session with reporters ahead of a Cabinet meeting, Trump yet again offered wildly contradictory claims about a war that has killed 13 U.S. service members, seriously injured hundreds more, left thousands of Iranians dead and has brought spiking gasoline prices and a new round of inflation at home.

As is typically the case with Trump, who is both a prolific liar as well as profoundly ignorant, it was impossible to know how much of what he said about the war was true, how much he believed was true but in reality was not, how much was a deliberate lie and how much reflected an irritation.