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 you will be doing less.

Trump calling everyone else a “coward” preemptively reframes his own withdrawal 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 couldn’t find one. It was because NATO acted like he started the war without a clue.

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.