Which Donald Trump did we get today?
Was it the Donald Trump who on Saturday vowed to blow up every power plant in Iran unless they “open the f***ing strait, you crazy b******s”?
Or was it the Donald Trump who said hours later that a 45-day ceasefire with Iran was in the works?
During a press conference on Monday we saw them both, but first we got another kind of President, the cheerleader in chief who was bragging about the US military’s successful operation to save an airman who was shot down over Iran on Friday.
Reading from a script, the President gave an account that sounded like an action movie, using the word “unbelievable” several times and heaping praise on himself for being so decisive in ordering the mission.
He described how the airman was “bleeding profusely” but managed to climb up the “treacherous mountain terrain” and into a crevasse where he hid for nearly 48 hours until he was rescued by American forces.
It was an increasingly rare moment of victory for Trump on the 45th day of the war that has spiralled out of his control thanks to Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow straight of water to its North which transports 20 percent of the world’s oil.
Despite Trump’s upbeat presentation, the operation to save the airman was in reality a high stakes mission that could have easily gone wrong.
It also completely undermined the Trump administration’s claims to have “dominance” over Iran’s air space.
But speaking in the White House briefing room, there was no room for such doubts as Trump and three of his top officials bragged about how it showed the power of the US military.
Defence Secretary Peter Hegseth went even further and made clear that, in his mind, this is nothing less than a holy war.
Comparing the downed airman to Jesus, he was “shot down on Good Friday, hid in a cave all of Saturday” before being rescued on Sunday.
“A pilot reborn, a nation rejoicing,” Hegseth said. “God is good”.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth addresses reporters (Photo: AP/Alex Brandon)Trump came close to making such comparisons – but only for himself.
As the President put it, “hundreds” of troops could have been killed in the operation and some top generals were opposed to it
But he “just felt it was worth it” and so gave the approval.
Interrupting the praise, the President said an aside that sent the chills down the spines of every Iranian: “The entire country could be taken out in one night and that night might be tomorrow night”.
Then he went back to how great the mission was.
There was something unsettling about how Trump seemed to be toying with eliminating an entire country before drifting into unhinged digressions.
One minute Trump was joking about how he would go to Venezuela, learn Spanish and become the country’s president.
The next he was claiming that he told the military to take out Osama bin Laden in a book he wrote a year before the 9/11 attacks taking shots at Nato allies including the UK, whose “broken” ships “barely work”.
There were surreal moments when he claimed that the Iranians wanted the US bombing campaign to continue even if the bombs were landing near their homes.
“When we leave they’re saying please come back, come back,” the President said.
It was head-spinning and impossible to know what was real and what wasn’t, such as when Trump mused about America charging tolls for ships to go through the Strait of Hormuz, not Iran as the Islamic Republic has mooted.
“Why shouldn’t we, we’re the winner, we won,’ the President said.
Trump was asked directly if he really would destroy Iran’s power plants on Tuesday night, as he vowed in his expletive-ridden post on Saturday.
Trump said that yes, Iran could be going back to the “Stone Ages”, then gave a vivid description of what could be coming if Tehran didn’t re-open the Strait of Hormuz.
“Burning, exploding, never to be used again, it will happen over a period of four hours, if we want to,” Trump said.
For all the talk of his own brilliance, Trump is unable to do much about the price of petrol, which has hit $4 in the US and is spiking in the rest of the world.
It’s the issue that voters in America care about most and yet Trump didn’t have an answer to it.
As the President walked out, a reporter shouted at him: “What about rising gas prices for people who are concerned?”
He didn’t look back and he didn’t reply.
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