When the president announced that he would hold a press conference on Monday to talk about the war in IranHe did this after the second downed American pilot was rescued from Iran.
The press conference itself featured nearly an hour of propaganda from Trump and administration officials before a single question from the assembled press was answered.
The administration tried to sell the war as a success, even as Trump’s claims that the US had already won the war were refuted by the shooting down of an American fighter plane.
The president is not living in reality, as evidenced by his claim that the Iranian people want to be bombed.
Trump said:
Yes, from the regime. Regime. They would be willing, they would be willing and it is suffering. They would be willing to suffer that to get the freedom that the Iranians have, and we’ve had numerous interceptions. Please keep bombing bombs that fall near their homes. Please keep bombing, do it.
And these are people who live where the bombs explode. And when we leave and we don’t reach those areas, they say: please come back. Come back. Come. These are the people. I don’t know what they do. All I can tell you is that they want freedom. They have lived in a world you know nothing about.
