Midnight Hammer: How Trump outsmarted Congress, the media, and Iran in one move

[Diesel]

He outfoxed the lot of them, yet still the usual suspects think he's going gaga


Midnight Hammer: How Trump outsmarted Congress, the media, and Iran in one move - opinion
Like most other Israelis, there was nothing I wanted more this past week than that US President Donald Trump would decide to enter the war on our side. And then he did.

JUNE 22, 2025 15:57
I never imagined that I would ever be so delighted to be proven completely wrong three and a half hours after sending in an article to The Jerusalem Post.

Yet, this is exactly what happened to me early Sunday, when a massive US attack obliterated the three most important Iranian nuclear facilities: the nuclear enrichment site at Fordow, which is located 300 feet beneath a mountain, and where until very recently Iran stored the 400 kg. of highly enriched uranium it had; the facility at Natanz, where Iran was reported to have developed and assembled centrifuges for uranium enrichment; and Iran’s nuclear research complex at Isfahan.

Much of what I had written about were the many reasons why US President Donald Trump was delaying a decision to join Israel in its attacks in the previous week on Iran’s nuclear facilities, which posed an existential threat to Israel, and rocket-launching facilities, from which Iran had been launching rockets, primarily at civilian targets all over Israel, with significant damage caused to apartment buildings and private homes, and causing some fatalities of persons who had been unable (or unwilling) to seek refuge in safe rooms and air-raid shelters.
One of the foci of my original article was the following event. Towards the evening in Israel (US midday) of Thursday, June 21, Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, gave a press briefing in Washington in which she delivered a statement “directly from the president,” which said: “Based on the fact that there’s substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to [join the Israeli attack in Iran] within the next two weeks.”

This statement infuriated a majority of Israelis – supporters of both the coalition and the opposition – who were expecting the US to join the Israeli attack, and especially to send B-2 Spirit stealth bombers to drop GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrator bombs (MOPs) on the Iranian enrichment site at Fordow.


Read more: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-858579?utm_source=jpost.app.android&utm_medium=share

You don't even realize how stupid this post makes you look, do you?

 

[gfm7175]

They were not getting one.

I'll grant you the fact that the "Iran is ____ [time period] away from getting a nuke" claim has been screamed to the high heavens for decades and has never come to fruition in the past. It's quite literally the right-wing's version of "climate crisis is ____ [time period] away from tipping point".

Is it finally true this time? Idk...... maybe, maybe not, but after Dubya's "weapons of mass destruction" lie, I now start off from a position of doubt.

His own intelligence agencies said that.

Are they really "his"? If you're referring to that publicized report from March, then there's been a lot of lies about it that have been making the rounds. I suspect that you are parroting those lies.

Trump attacked for another reason.

It seems to me that Trump signed off on the bombing mission because Trump believes that Iran is either close to (or already has) nuclear weapon capabilities.

His ratings are dropping lower than any other president ever in the history of the world.

That's an outright lie.

He thinks this will help him get the people behind him.

You seem to know more about Trump's mind than Trump does. Why would he have to "get the people behind him" if the people are already behind him?

It should not. Orange man has blood all over his hands

???????? WTF are you even talking about??

and it will mean nothing to him. He would do it again today.

I didn't know that nuclear facilities were people.......... That's news to me.

 

[Earl]

Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, started warring in the ME decades ago.

America has responded…note, responded.

 

[Lionfish]

Trump certainly outsmarted the receptionist.

 

[Nordberg]

Trump. a sponsor of lawlessness acted on his own, taking powers other presidents were loath to assume. Trump did not develop a great plan. He just overstepped his authority and did what he wanted. There is no doubt that Trump committed an act of war. Congress has the power to declare war. Trump does not care. He does what he wants and defies you to do anything about it.

 

[christiefan915]

He outfoxed the lot of them, yet still the usual suspects think he's going gaga

Midnight Hammer: How Trump outsmarted Congress, the media, and Iran in one move - opinion
Like most other Israelis, there was nothing I wanted more this past week than that US President Donald Trump would decide to enter the war on our side. And then he did.

JUNE 22, 2025 15:57
I never imagined that I would ever be so delighted to be proven completely wrong three and a half hours after sending in an article to The Jerusalem Post.

Yet, this is exactly what happened to me early Sunday, when a massive US attack obliterated the three most important Iranian nuclear facilities: the nuclear enrichment site at Fordow, which is located 300 feet beneath a mountain, and where until very recently Iran stored the 400 kg. of highly enriched uranium it had; the facility at Natanz, where Iran was reported to have developed and assembled centrifuges for uranium enrichment; and Iran’s nuclear research complex at Isfahan.

Much of what I had written about were the many reasons why US President Donald Trump was delaying a decision to join Israel in its attacks in the previous week on Iran’s nuclear facilities, which posed an existential threat to Israel, and rocket-launching facilities, from which Iran had been launching rockets, primarily at civilian targets all over Israel, with significant damage caused to apartment buildings and private homes, and causing some fatalities of persons who had been unable (or unwilling) to seek refuge in safe rooms and air-raid shelters.
One of the foci of my original article was the following event. Towards the evening in Israel (US midday) of Thursday, June 21, Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, gave a press briefing in Washington in which she delivered a statement “directly from the president,” which said: “Based on the fact that there’s substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to [join the Israeli attack in Iran] within the next two weeks.”

This statement infuriated a majority of Israelis – supporters of both the coalition and the opposition – who were expecting the US to join the Israeli attack, and especially to send B-2 Spirit stealth bombers to drop GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrator bombs (MOPs) on the Iranian enrichment site at Fordow.


Read more: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-858579?utm_source=jpost.app.android&utm_medium=share

And now the madman is hinting about "regime change." You still don't see the parallels to Iraq?

 

[Earl]

Trump certainly outsmarted the receptionist.

It doesn’t take much to do that.

 

[Earl]

And now the madman is hinting about "regime change." You still don't see the parallels to Iraq?

There are no American boots on the ground in Iran, Ma’am.

President Trump says there will be no boots on the ground.

Wouldn’t it be a bad thing to allow a madman in Iran to have nukes?

 

[archives]

No war was declared.

No it wasn't.

Declared or not, we are at war, dropping bombs on another country is an act of war, Vietnam was never semantically a war, but everything thought of it and treated it as the Vietnam War

 

[archives]

There are no American boots on the ground in Iran, Ma’am.

President Trunp;says there will be no bootscon tge ground.

Wouldn’t it be a bad thing to allow a madman in Iran to have nukes?

Trump also said he would never get the U.S. involved in a foreign war, and if dropping multiple bombs on another country isn’t involvement nothing is

 

[Earl]

Declared or not, we are at war, dropping bombs on another country is an act of war, Vietnam was never semantically a war, but everything thought of it and treated it as the Vietnam War

There is no war, Anchovies.

There was an interdiction of nukes in Iran.

If you think about it…long and hard…you will realize that is a true blessing.

Iran has been at war in the ME for decades through their proxies, killing more than 1000 Americans.

 

[Earl]

Trump also said he would never get the U.S. involved in a foreign war, and if dropping multiple bombs on another country isn’t involvement nothing is

There is no foreign war, Anchovies.

The interdiction is over.

 

[Earl]

Obama on Iran:

“They don’t need an underground fortified facility like Fordow for a peaceful nuclear program.”

Obama said that.

Obama.

 

[archives]

There is no war, Anchovies.

There was an interdiction of nukes in Iran.

If you think about it…long and hard…you will realize that is a true blessing.

Iran has been at war in the ME for decades through their proxies, killing more than 1000 Americans.

So bombing another nation isn’t war, an act of war?

Never commented on the success or failure of the bombing, still undecided, have to wait to see the consequences and repercussions

 

[Earl]

So bombing another nation isn’t war, an act of war?

Never commented on the success or failure of the bombing, still undecided, have to wait to see the consequences and repercussions

Obama bombed hundreds of times.

Did he commit an act of war, Anchovies?

 

[Earl]

Barack Obama's presidency saw a significant increase in the use of drone strikes and other aerial bombing campaigns compared to his predecessor, George W. Bush
.
Here's a summary of the available information:

• Drone Strikes: Obama approved the use of 563 drone strikes, resulting in the deaths of approximately 3,797 people. In his first year alone, he authorized 54 drone strikes in Pakistan. Overall, his administration conducted ten times more drone strikes in the "covert war on terror" than Bush's.
• Total Bombs Dropped: In 2016, his last year in office, the US military dropped at least 26,171 bombs. These bombings occurred in seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.
• Targeted Countries: The Obama administration is known to have ordered airstrikes in Pakistan (primarily using drones), Yemen (drone attacks), Afghanistan (drones and human-crewed aircraft), Iraq (targeting ISIS), Libya (part of a coalition effort to protect civilians), and Syria (targeting al Qaeda and ISIS).
• Rationale: While Obama aimed to end US-led wars, his administration used force when necessary. He acknowledged the need for military force in certain situations, even referencing its potential for moral justification.

Acts of wars?

Oh, that was different.

Too funny.

 

[Earl]

Anchovies?

 

[archives]

Obama bombed hundreds of times.

Did he commit an act of war, Anchovies?

Really, another country, where?

Not a semantical question of an act of war, what legally constitutes war and what doesn’t, just common sense, if you drop bombs on another nation you are at war

 

[archives]

Barack Obama's presidency saw a significant increase in the use of drone strikes and other aerial bombing campaigns compared to his predecessor, George W. Bush
.
Here's a summary of the available information:

• Drone Strikes: Obama approved the use of 563 drone strikes, resulting in the deaths of approximately 3,797 people. In his first year alone, he authorized 54 drone strikes in Pakistan. Overall, his administration conducted ten times more drone strikes in the "covert war on terror" than Bush's.
• Total Bombs Dropped: In 2016, his last year in office, the US military dropped at least 26,171 bombs. These bombings occurred in seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.
• Targeted Countries: The Obama administration is known to have ordered airstrikes in Pakistan (primarily using drones), Yemen (drone attacks), Afghanistan (drones and human-crewed aircraft), Iraq (targeting ISIS), Libya (part of a coalition effort to protect civilians), and Syria (targeting al Qaeda and ISIS).
• Rationale: While Obama aimed to end US-led wars, his administration used force when necessary. He acknowledged the need for military force in certain situations, even referencing its potential for moral justification.

Acts of wars?

Oh, that was different.

Too funny.

Yes, war on terrorism

And he is not bombing those countries, the government of those nations, another national state, but rather individuals in those countries

 

[Earl]

Really, another country, where?

Not a semantical question of an act of war, what legally constitutes war and what doesn’t, just common sense, if you drop bombs on another nation you are at war

So, Obama committed hundreds of acts of wars.

• Drone Strikes: Obama approved the use of 563 drone strikes, resulting in the deaths of approximately 3,797 people. In his first year alone, he authorized 54 drone strikes in Pakistan. Overall, his administration conducted ten times more drone strikes in the "covert war on terror" than Bush's.
• Total Bombs Dropped: In 2016, his last year in office, the US military dropped at least 26,171 bombs. These bombings occurred in seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.
• Targeted Countries: The Obama administration is known to have ordered airstrikes in Pakistan (primarily using drones), Yemen (drone attacks), Afghanistan (drones and human-crewed aircraft), Iraq (targeting ISIS), Libya (part of a coalition effort to protect civilians), and Syria (targeting al Qaeda and ISIS).