“Which war do you think ends first?” a reporter asked, referring to the Ukraine War and Iran War.
“Umm…. That’s an interesting question. You know, coming from you, that’s very interesting,” said Trump. “Which war would end first? I don’t know. Maybe they’re on a similar timetable.”
“I think Ukraine, militarily, they’re defeated, okay? Mili… You wouldn’t know that by reading the fake news, but militarily, look, their navy…” he rambled. “So they had 159 ships. Every ship is right now underwater. Typically, that’s pretty good.”
Presumably, Trump was referring to Iran’s navy, not Ukraine’s. The United States is not at war with Ukraine, despite what Trump and his pro-Kremlin supporters might want.
If indeed he was referring to Iran, the destruction of their navy — if it happened at all — is no real military accomplishment. Iran’s conventional navy was severely obsolete, with many ships dating back to the 1970s. Bragging about blowing it up is like bragging about destroying an enemy’s catapults or chariots. It never posed a real threat.
Crucially, Iran’s asymmetric navy, composed of small, swift, hard-to-locate craft is still operational. It’s these smaller ships that allow Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz and Trump has no real means of destroying them.
“What do you think, Jared?” Trump continued. “I mean, it’s going to be hard for them to make a naval comeback. Okay. Now they have an air force. Every one of their planes has been shot down or has been decimated. They have missiles. About 82% are gone. And they have drones. And most of them are gone. Most of the factories are mostly gone.”
None of that is true. Trump pulls these percentages out of thin air. Iran still has drones, missiles, and aircraft. They are not surrendering any time soon.
“And we have tremendous anti-drone equipment now between lasers and that new, very special machine gun that knocks them out of the air like flies,” Trump continued. “And we use bullets instead of million-dollar, you know, missiles to knock out a $30,000 drone. So I would say Jared would tell me that, with everything you just heard, typically we’re in pretty good shape.”
“And in addition, their economy is crashing,” Trump said. Their— As you know, their money, their— They go with their money. They don’t have a name for it,” he said incoherently. “Their money is valueless. They’ve got inflation that nobody has ever seen before. Other than that, I think they’re doing quite well.”
In reality, it’s the entire global economy that’s suffering thanks to Trump’s pointless war. Consumer prices are skyrocketing in the United States and Americans are feeling the pain.
“If you read The New York Times, you’d say they’re doing wonderfully because it’s fake news,” whined Trump. “Or if you watch CNN— I mean, you cover it all the time— You think they’re doing well. Do you think they’re doing well where they have no navy, no Air Force, no anti-aircraft apparatus, other than what they may have put there? They may have brought in some light stuff during the ceasefire. And we know exactly where it is, so it’ll be knocked out within the first 15 minutes.”
At no point in his lie-riddled, slurred, befuddled outburst did Trump clarify that he was talking about Iran instead of Ukraine. Maybe he can no longer tell the two countries apart. His cognitive decline has never been more apparent.
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