LOSER

NBC

There was news this morning that President Vladimir Putin of Russia called Trump yesterday to wish him happy birthday. That must have been a cheery little confab, two of the world’s biggest losers trying hard to reassure each other of their greatness as one throws his hands up in abject surrender to Iran and the other loses 30,000 soldiers on the battlefield every month fighting a war against a country that is dwarfed by the size of Russia and a GDP that is one twelfth its size.

I won’t even get into how much larger in every way the United States is in comparison to Iran.

Today at the G-7 in France, Trump looks like somebody took a 2-by-4 to him. His voice is listless. The back of one of his hands is completely covered in pancake makeup. When he walked out to greet French President Emanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, Trump’s gait was halting and his wife Melania was not at his side.

He is on the world stage at the G-7, and he looks exhausted and weak and he is utterly alone.

Donald Trump launched a war against the Islamic Republic, and Iran took everything the U.S. and Israel could dish out. Donald Trump announced 28 times that a “deal” to end the war was imminent. Iran did not make such an announcement even once.

All Iran had to do was point missiles and drones at the Strait of Hormuz and stop the shipment of oil and wait for Trump to cave. Yesterday, he caved.

At this writing, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed, under the firm control of Iran, which can sink any vessel attempting to make transit. Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium is secure. Its oil and gas industries were not seriously damaged. Kharg Island is not in rubble and surrounded by an oil slick. Iran’s ability to use missiles and drones in long-distance strikes against its neighbors and its declared enemy, Israel, is as secure as it was on February 27, the day before Trump launched his war.

When Trump appeared before the press with Macron, the French president called the agreement “very important for peace.” Trump’s face was impassive, a mask of failure and doom. Not one country at the G-7 responded to Trump’s entreaties to help with his war on Iran. He is not meeting with allies. They are unwilling pallbearers at his funeral.

Trump’s big-bully-on-the-block act is finished. Any threats he makes between now and January of 2029 are hollow, and everyone knows it. Pete Hegseth spent a good portion of his interview on Sunday with Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” denying reports that the U.S. has severely diminished its stockpile of high-tech weapons such as the anti-missile Patriots and long-range precision Tomahawk cruise missiles. Brennan challenged Hegseth about how many high-tech weapons the U.S. expended against Iran: “There is a crisis with those stockpiles right now,” she said. Hegseth practically shouted, “That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle.” When Brennan reminded him that he had testified before Congress “that it will take years to rebuild those stockpiles,” Hegseth paused and took an audible breath, gathering himself before responding, “You don’t have to read back to me what I testified.”

Trump’s war on Iran turned out to be just another of his many, many lies. As the war wore on, he even stopped using the word, “war,” calling it an “excursion.” Amazingly, his choice of words turned out to be accurate. It wasn’t a real war, even though 3,000 Iranians lost their lives and parts of Iran’s infrastructure and military were damaged but not destroyed. Trump and Hegseth went on an excursion to the Persian Gulf and all they got was an international energy crisis caused by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and an embarrassing “deal” that returns everything to where it was on February 27.

Hegseth is just another Crusader who went to Persia and got his shit handed to him. Trump is a bully, but no one fears him anymore. Wait until you see his rally on the Mall on July the 4^th. Not even Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock will be able to lift his spirits. His polling isn’t going to bounce back when gas prices come down. Iran beat him. He’s a loser.