Josh Marshall notes that, for top Wall Street and bank folks, Trump continues to exert a magic pull, and this is mitigating the effects of his illegal, unexplained war on Iran. He characterizes the response of Wall Street and bankers to fears of instability from the war as follows:
"Hey, Trump’s got this, guys. Things will be better real soon."
"It is by now a familiar Wall Street two-step: Stocks stumble in the morning and mostly recover by the end of the day after President Donald Trump says something that’s viewed as reassuring about the Iran war."
From Wall Street and the banks to corporate CEOs and Silicon Valley techbros, financial elites in the US are joined at the hip to the Republican party, and not even Trump and fascism are a bridge too far. Tax cuts count supremely.
New York Times editorializes today with rare honesty about Trump's penchant for lying:
"From his first announcement of the attack on Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump has issued a stream of falsehoods about the war. ...
He has lied about the reasons for the war and about its progress, in an apparent attempt to disguise his poor planning and the war’s questionable basis."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/opinion/iran-war-trump-lying.html
"Starting a war is the most serious action that a political leader can take. It ends lives and can change history. The decisions that guide war must be based in reality, and presidents owe American service members and their families the truth about why they are being asked to fight. Whatever short-term gain Mr. Trump thinks he is getting by lying about the war in Iran is far exceeded by the cost, for him, the country and the world."
Mike Luckovich's cartoon commentary on who is benefiting economically from Trump's illegal war of choice against Iran.
William Lindsey 
