On Donald Trumps unhinged press conference

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On Donald Trumps unhinged press conference

A quick summary of Donald Trump’s bizarre sometimes maniacal press conference from Mar a Lago.

As he now frequently does my 18 year old son Zein asked the best question: is he delusional or is he lying. It’s both obviously.

He was lying when he suggested that Iran may have somehow “bought” a Tomahawk missile and fired it at their own school massacring 167 of their own schoolchildren in the first hour of the war (and presumably another to double-tap their desperate parents, teachers, and frantic emergency workers)
In fact this may be the most vile despicable lie an American president has ever uttered in public. And that’s saying something.

It is certainly the most consequential lie because it will define what is left of his presidency.

But he must have delusional to repeatedly declare the Iranian forces as essentially disarmed, with no ships no air defence no missiles no launchers.

Because he knows we know that for three nights running Iran has been smashing Israeli cities left essentially undefended by virtually useless Iron Dome interceptors causing thousands of casualties many of them high-value personnel and destroying hundreds of often very consequential buildings and institutions.

He knows we know that he has just evacuated ALL US bases in the Persian Gulf because their retreat under fire is on our screens.

Thus his Arab allies (whom he dumped right in it by publicly stating how engaged they have been in his war while they are lying to their public that they are not) are now completely without US military presence on their land and at Iran’s mercy.

He is delusional surely in his statements that he is going to control the Straits of Hormuz. Any American ships in the Straits will be immediately destroyed by anti-ship missiles in fact several just have been.

If he lands the 82nd Airborne on the strategic island of Kharg in the Straits the Iranians will destroy the island, sink it, oil installations, US occupiers and all. 

Blocking the Straits for good and creating an environmental catastrophe which will poison the entire Gulf Waters for years to come.

Does he think Iran is thinking about future oil revenues at this point?

This is an existential question for Iran now: to be or not to be?

Even British Intelligence sources are saying that idea is “terrifyingly nuts”.

But he was straight out lying, again consequentially so, when he quoted Vladimir Putin as being “very impressed” at Trump’s worst war leader in history performance! In fact the US-Israel attack on Iran is the most disastrous military-political blunder since Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s invasion of the USSR.

And what can we say about his statement that he was doing all this: “For China”!!! And “honoured to do so”!

China is EXEMPT for Iranian measures, its tankers are passing freely through the Straits. The only country named as being so. Ditto Chinese shipping in the Red Sea courtesy of the Yemen authorities- Ansarallah.
Was that a lie or a delusion? I don’t know son, your guess is as good as mine.

More much more on Wednesday on the Mother of all Talkshows.

George Galloway
Leader of the Workers Party of Britain
In Exile