As the war that Donald Trump is waging against Iran drags on into its sixth month, there remains no end in sight and no plan for a conclusion that justifies the expense in blood and money. Never mind that Trump had promised that the war wouldn’t last more than a few days, and that he has been declaring victory every other week since it began.

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This new quagmire in the Middle East was a reckless and illegal endeavor that Trump launched in order to distract the American people from his failures in office, and perhaps to draw attention away from his stubborn, guilt-ridden insistence on obstructing the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. In other words, it was an egomaniacal scheme to pacify his out-of-control malignant narcissism.

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Those goals of Trump’s haven’t changed. And on Saturday he was asked to comment on the state of affairs of his Iranian misadventures. He responded to a reporter’s question saying that…

“We’re seeing what happens. They have no money. They have no navy. They have no air force. They’re not paying their soldiers. They’re not paying their police. They have 350% inflation. So we’re just gonna sort of see what happens. And we have total control, you know, of the border. We have total control, if you look at the blockade. We have total control ot that entire region having to do with the Strait of Hormuz.”

This is NOT comforting.Trump is admitting that he can't defeat Iran even though they have no money, no navy, and no air force. We're 6 months into what he said would be a 2 week war.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-08-22T16:35:17.140Z

There’s a lot wrong with that response. To begin with, it’s a pretty vague assessment of an ongoing war wherein all he can say is that we’ll “see what happens.” But more troubling is what appears to be his dismal summary of the situation. Trump brags that he has reduced Iran’s fighting capability to a shell of a military force. He has been saying that for months using hyperbolic language that he “obliterated” Iran’s ability to fight back.

The problem with that is that he’s still losing. No matter how many times he repeats that “We have total control” over the Hormuz Strait, it isn’t true. And his boasting about destrying Iran’s military just makes the fact that he is still losing all the more humiliating for him.

Under the circumstances, shouldn’t Trump have wrapped this up long ago? He is essentially conceding that he can’t even beat a country that has no money, no navy, and no air force. That’s a concession that is consistent with Trump’s record of failure for decades. And it’s one that Democrats should highlight at every opportunity.

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