"If the president meant to be reassuring, however, he missed the mark. The reality, as best we can tell, is that Trump fully expected the Iranian regime to collapse in a matter of days or weeks, and he is now flummoxed to find out that a major war is a lot more complicated than he—or Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth—realized." "He was... low energy—mumbling & lapsing into the repetitive phrases that come out when he’s riffing"

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Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech

His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.

The Atlantic