https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/22/politics/trump-iran-ceasefire-taco-vance-pakistan-talks-analysis
President Donald Trump blinked again by extending the ceasefire with Iran.
His critics are mocking another TACO (“Trump always chickens out”) Tuesday after the president caved on one more personal red line days after warning there’d be “no more Mr. Nice Guy” if the Islamic Republic didn’t capitulate.
But the derision would be more justified if a president risked more Iranian and US lives by doubling down on what looks like an unwise war purely to preserve his tough-guy persona.
A haunting question about the Vietnam War that future Sen. John Kerry posed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 seems apt here: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
Still, Trump’s climbdown cast fresh doubts on his wartime leadership skills on a day when Iran refused to show up to talks in Islamabad aimed at ending the war — leaving Vice President JD Vance cooling his heels at home.
The president’s spin cannot obscure the most important takeaway from Tuesday: His strategy of using threats of overwhelming US military force to coerce Iran into surrendering at talks has now failed multiple times. Inside Iran, therefore, it must appear that Trump’s threats of military escalation lack credibility.
Trump is a lot like Israel. No matter what he does, CNN condemns him.
ReplyDeleteImagine the war resumes last night. This same CNN would be writing headlines today about how negotiations were about to resume and Trump decided to be a war-monger instead. But he extended the truce and it's TACO! TACO! TACO!
CNN is just reporting what we all see. They're now picking on him, nor are they making anything up. because how could you make up the absolutely crazy behavior of our administeration and president? It's actually far worse, then just taco, because he is reneged on every single campaign promise He ever made and is acting in such a way that we all pay the price,
Deletewhile his administration clown truck careens down the highway smashing things down while he acts like he is Jesus Christ.
Trump will triumph.
ReplyDeleteIt's just taking some time. These things are not choreographed in advance, you know. The script is written as the events unfold.
We appreciate your patience, media.
The spin is always "Trump is bad." On the day Iran falls, the first headline will be "But it took too long!"
DeleteYou just need true faith because he is infallible and Divinely inspired
DeleteI have a suggestion - in the name of peace - to stop assailing the personality of trump, as this is just causing his supporters to fire back at you.
DeleteWe are seeing these exchanges most every day, and then the insults deleted but preserved in the sidebar.
Futile.
Oh this is just on line stuff. If I ever have the privilege meeting of DT, I plan to fawn over him for his incredible knowledge.
DeleteThere's a story about one of the Marx brothers, Chico. He was a compulsive gambler and he would ask his friends to gamble with him. They didn't want to so he would pay them in order to gamble hence at no loss to them.
DeleteDraw your own conclusion.