WHEN YOU’RE PRESIDENT THEY HAVE TO CALL YOU SMART. INSTEAD OF JUST PLAIN NUTS

Today’s fairy tale from the Oval… A reporter asked President Trump if he was concerned about the creeping inflation we’re seeing. Trump answered: “You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why?” And away he went… He slid into a fantasy rewriting of the history of his war on Iran and his decision to launch it. Trump claimed that he was just now telling reporters—and Iran—for the first time that the US was secretly taking oil from Iran. “Do you know we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil?” he asked. “Nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran, until right now. We took out the other night 22 ships, late at night, with no lights, ’cause they don’t have any radar, ’cause we blasted the crap out of it. We took out, that why oil’s $85 a barrel.” (No confirmation available that 100M barrels liberated. Or that this was actually a ‘secret’ operation. Except maybe to him.) Then Trump segued into a rewriting of why he started the Iran strikes in the first place. Turns out hurting our economy was part of his plan all along. He claimed he had deliberately made the choice to hurt the economy to stop Iran from producing a nuclear weapon. Which he claimed—contrary to his own intelligence officers’ assessments—it was going to have “very soon.” “I said, look, the one bad thing will be, we hit the best economy we’ve ever hit,” Trump claimed. “And I said to my people, I had [Treasury Secetary] Scott [Bessent], I had [Commerce Secretary] Howard [Lutnick], I had [Defense Secretary] Pete [Hegseth], I had all—I had [then–deputy attorney general] Todd [Blanche] in the room. I said, The one thing we have to do now, we had just hit the highest stock market in history. Highest 401Ks in history. Everything was going well, and I said, I hate to do this to you guys, but Iran’s gonna have a nuclear weapon very soon. We have to go and attack.” In any case, he said oil was not nearly as expensive as the $250 a barrel people had said it could reach, so its current level is “pretty amazing.” And the stock market, he said, remains high. He went on to say that his strikes on Venezuela were “a great success” and that Venezuela has “become a happy country,” and that “we went to Iran and essentially we’ve done the same thing.” He claimed Iran’s military has been destroyed and all the Iranian leadership is gone. And we all lived happily ever after… Are y’all still falling for all this BS?