TRUMP: I thought oil would go much higher.
TRUMP: I thought the stock market would go much lower.
TRUMP: Iran offered me to be their Supreme Leader.
TRUMP: We don’t need the Strait of Hormuz to open.
TRUMP: We won the war with Iran.
Whatever this man is on, I’d like to have some please.
After President Trump claimed to reporters twice today that he had recently spoken to a former president who praised his actions in Iran, saying: “I wish I did what you did.” Aides to all four living presidents, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have issued statements to CNN, saying there is no record of any communications between them and President Trump.
Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.