{"id":352,"date":"2026-06-16T20:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=352"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:03:59","slug":"trump-meltdown-during-iran-briefing-got-so-bad-his-own-aides-were-forced-to-remove-him-from-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchthenews.store\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Trump MELTDOWN during Iran briefing got so bad his own aides were forced to remove him from the room!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal \u2014 owned by Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump\u2019s most loyal media ally \u2014 just published one of the most damning portraits of a president in crisis ever to appear in the American press.<\/p>\n

His tirade became such a distraction \u2014 such a hindrance to the people actually managing the crisis \u2014 that his own aides physically removed him from the situation room and opted to brief him at intervals instead. Let that sink in: the commander-in-chief was kicked out of his own war briefing by his own staff.<\/p>\n

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While his team worked to rescue two American airmen in hostile territory, Trump was \u201cwailing throughout a nearly empty West Wing\u201d about gas prices and European allies who wouldn\u2019t join his war. He was obsessed with one thing above all else \u2014 not the safety of the airmen, but his own political fate.<\/p>\n

Specifically, he was terrified of becoming Jimmy Carter. \u201cIf you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter\u2026 with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election,\u201d Trump had said in March. \u201cWhat a mess.<\/p>\n

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\u201d So, as two American pilots were missing in Iran, the president\u2019s primary concern was whether this would cost him politically \u2014 the same calculation he made when he ignored his generals\u2019 advice and launched the war in the first place. The pilot was rescued later that day.<\/p>\n

The second crew member took two more days to recover. Hours after learning of the successful rescue, Trump celebrated Easter Sunday by posting a profanity-filled Truth Social message demanding Iranians \u201copen the F\u2014n\u2019 Strait, you crazy b\u2014\u2013ds, or you\u2019ll be living in Hell\u201d \u2014 and signed it \u201cPraise be to Allah.<\/p>\n

President DONALD J. TRUMP. \u201d When advisers expressed alarm, Trump explained he was deliberately trying to seem \u201cunstable and insulting\u201d to scare Iran to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n

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Then \u2014 in perhaps the most revealing detail in the entire story \u2014 he immediately asked: \u201cHow\u2019s it playing? \u201d He threatened a civilization. Signed it with a religious salutation on Easter Sunday to provoke his own Christian base.<\/p>\n

And his first question was about his ratings. Then on Tuesday, he posted that \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight. \u201d Then he backed down for the fourth time.<\/p>\n

Then he told reporters Iran \u201chad agreed to everything\u201d and declared \u201ca great victory. \u201d Then, less than 12 hours later, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard ship fired on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Journal that Trump \u201cremained a steady leader our country needs\u201d \u2014 that is, of course, if you think the country needs a leader who was kicked out of the briefing room by his own aides.<\/p>\n

Fifty-one lawmakers have introduced legislation to invoke the 25th Amendment. Marjorie Taylor Greene called his civilization threat \u201cevil and madness. \u201d Alex Jones called it a war crime.<\/p>\n

And now Rupert Murdoch\u2019s own newspaper is publishing accounts from senior officials describing a president in hours-long freakout, removed from crisis management by his own staff, asking \u201chow\u2019s it playing? \u201d while American pilots were missing in Iran.<\/p>\n

How much longer can we stand this? How much longer can Trump last? With behavior like this, our country is in severe danger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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