Fake injury President is framing a fake withdrawal from a non-war-war.

The same Trump derangement syndrome we saw in NATO/Ukraine is showing up in Iran: berate allies for not doing enough, then announce there is nothing to do and you will be doing even less.

President Donald Trump freaked out at U.S. allies on Friday as “cowards” after begging for help in securing the Strait of Hormuz as energy prices skyrocket. Trump, 79, also declared a victory in the war against Iran by claiming the U.S. had already won “militarily”…

Already won, he’s leaving. But go fight or you are the “coward”.

Trump calling everyone else the “coward” while he withdraws, preemptively reframes his own failures as their fault. He wants everyone to believe when Hormuz stays closed and oil stays above $100, it wasn’t because he started the war without a clue, and still can’t find one. He says blame NATO, because they act like he did all this on his own.

And the troop deployments make Trump derangement into pure theater. The Boxer group from the Pacific won’t arrive for three weeks. You don’t claim you are winding down and then send an expensive MEU on a three-week sail to wind down. You send it to have options that you’re publicly denying you want.

When asked Thursday if troops were being sent, Trump said:

I’m not putting troops anywhere. If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you, but I’m not putting troops.

Then the Marines in California were ordered to sail for Iran.

The Onion couldn’t write this.