Presidential addresses typically are reserved for big moments that define the United States. Harry Truman, in a stateroom of the U.S.S. Augusta, announcing the U.S. had changed the world by introducing nuclear weapons to the battlefield. George W. Bush, from the Oval Office, urging Americans to keep the faith after the brazen attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A little more than three weeks later, Bush, in his private office, telling the world U.S. forces had begun a military operation against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Barack Obama, in the White House’s Cross Hall, informing the country that 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden had been killed by elite U.S. forces in Pakistan. Those were giant days that changed the course of U.S. and global interests for a generation, moments that contemporaries will always remember where they were when they heard.
To hear Trump step onto a stage typically reserved for history-making moments, it was like listening to a student who did not come prepared to make a specific argument and instead chased changing theses based on instinct. The evening felt like a performance-art version of his social media posts. Trump is claiming a total win while threatening harsh escalation. He is demanding credit for an economy that is shaken daily by his vacillations on the war’s goals but says it’s all a short-term problem. And he is offering an uneasy mix of George H. W. Bush’s nuclear de-escalation agenda, George W. Bush’s Freedom Agenda, and even Bill Clinton’s and Jimmy Carter’s chase of Middle East peace. Describe victory however you like, because that’s enough for Trump.
We should strap in for a long, vague victory lap to this war.
And at another, he seemed to say that victory was unfinished. “We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” Trump said. “We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.”
It was as if Trump threw all the possible things that might calm some Americans’ worries together and stitched it together like a foreign policy Frankenstein.
Noticeably absent from Trump’s prepared remarks: any suggestion that U.S. ground troops would join the fight in Iran or any mention of NATO, that trans-Atlantic pact that Trump has repeatedly hinted the United States might abandon or upend if allies don’t step up and join the assault on Iran. With Trump’s MAGA base flaking as their leader inches away from his non-interventionist identity and seems ready to abandon an alliance that has made the U.S. an indispensable player in the post-World War II pecking order, his choice to stay silent on both will be much scrutinized.
Trump delivered his address to mark one month since the war began. He then compared it to other years-long conflicts like World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Korea, and Iraq. By contrast, Iran has been easy to muzzle, Trump suggested.
The residents of that region who were hearing air-raid sirens as Trump began speaking would probably like a word.
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