Donald Trump told a Florida crowd that it is “treasonous” to say the US is not winning the war in Iran. The US president was speaking at The Villages in Florida, the world’s largest retirement community, when he made the remarks. Trump came to tout supposedly fulfilling his 2024 campaign promise to remove taxes on Social Security. It came after the president told Congress that the war in Iran had already ended, despite his earlier issuing a fresh threat to Tehran.
I wonder if the GOP will start using conditional statements to hide some lies. For example:
“If we’re winning the war in Iran, then I will personally release all of the Epstein Files myself on the DOJ website by June.”
“If the 2020 election was rigged in Biden’s favor, then I should have a third term.”
“If I conquer Canada and squash their resistance without issue, then I will guarantee every unemployed person in the country a $200k/yr job.”
All true statements according to vacuous truth.
I’m sure MAGA is doing this already, but it’s more of a side gig now.
The main gig: whatever The Don says can be dismissed with “don’t take him so literally”. The goal is to generate engagement, aka ragebait. It might work within the USA, but not globally.
The real goal of the Iran war has been achieved. Nobody is talking about Epstein anymore.