Trump and Hegseth Melt Down Over Reporters Asking About Their Failed Iran Strikes

The more they scream at reporters, the more obvious it is their strikes failed bigly

Donald Trump and his cabinet are furious that reporters keep pointing out the bombs they dropped on Iran didn’t actually work.

This morning

Pete Hegseth lashed out at the entire American press corps, including a reporter from Fox News — his former employer — whom he accused of “being the worst!” simply for asking if he was “certain” none of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was moved prior to Trump’s military strikes.

A very fair and reasonable question to ask the Secretary of Defense!

Here’s what’s really going on

To compensate for Trump’s ineffective military strikes — which, by the way, were not a failure of the military, but a failure of Trump and his unqualified cabinet of crazies — they’re now trying to shift the blame onto the media instead of themselves.

Let’s be clear

Trump and Hegseth ordered strikes that failed to take out Iran’s nuclear program (as confirmed by U.S. intelligence reports). So instead of taking responsibility, they’re doing what they always do: attacking the media.

They know most Americans — including myself, at times — distrust the media, so they’re leaning into that, hoping to convince the public that the media is the one lying instead of them.

Plus

Not only are they scapegoating the media, but they’re falsely claiming that anyone who questions whether the strikes were successful is “demeaning” the military. (Trump has used this phrase several times on Truth Social, as has Karoline Leavitt).

It’s a tactic they hope will stop reporters from inquiring about the “success” of their attacks on Iran.

In my view

If Trump and his team were confident that their strikes obliterated Iran’s nuclear programs, they wouldn’t be this defensive.

They would simply show us the evidence.

But they can’t

That’s why they’re imploding.

That’s why Trump is cursing on live tv.

And it’s why he’s now sending Hegseth out to do early-morning attacks against the media.

The takeaway

You guys are smart enough to see through this — but I wanted to flag it because their tactics are so damn transparent.

This whole bombing of Iran seems more and more like part of a grand scheme for Trump to declare himself the “peacemaker” of a so-called “12-Day War” — a name he came up with — just so he can say he “ended it” as a way to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

I wouldn’t put that level of pettiness past him!

Anyhow

Brace for more gaslighting from the Trump administration about the Iran strikes.

And just remember: the more defensive they get, the more you know they’re doing it to cover up the fact that they did not take out Iran’s nuclear program.

Happy Thursday, guys!