Not long ago, Trump and crew claimed the evil mullahs in Iran slaughtered 30,000 of their own citizens. Since that time, there has been a revision. Now Trump insists the number is 45,000. Larger numbers look better when it is the only fabrication that might be used as an excuse for dropping more bombs on Tehran and murdering more innocents in their sleep. Nukes and regime change are no longer applicable.
There are several problems with Trump’s preposterous claim. First and foremost, how does a government murder 45,000 people in a few days, or even a few weeks? How does the government dispose of 45,000 bodies without a single photograph or firsthand account? “Think about the logistics: morgues overflowing, mass graves that satellites or locals would spot, families demanding remains, and all under a blackout?” ponders DC Document Reports. “It smells like exaggeration from exile groups or media hype to amp up pressure on the regime.”
Exactly. But then this is hardly surprising, as most of what we get from Dear Leader, after he finishes talking about himself, is dissimulation, misrepresentation, distortion, and prevarication. I am not certain, however, Trump is telling lies. He may very well believe what his Zionist handlers and backroom neocon advisors tell him.
Remember when Trump said back in early March Iran was itching to attack America? On its face, that was obvious bullshit, as Iran does not have the desire or capability. On March 2, the Pentagon admitted there was no intelligence indicating Iran planned to attack America. On March 11, Trump took America to war on the advice of his Zionist son-in-law, not intelligence. On March 29, he admitted the whole thing is about Israel. “Israel was under threat so we had to attack,” he said.
Lately, though, things have become particularly delusional. Trump posted that Iran is begging for a ceasefire, which is untrue. Iran has refused any contact with Trump and his Zionist “negotiators” experienced in buying and selling New York real estate. Iran knows full well engaging in go-nowhere talks with the US results in murdered negotiators.
On April Fools’ Day, the Don insisted there is a new regime in Iran and it wants to turn over whatever uranium Iran might have, destroy its missiles, stop supporting its “proxies” (in the US, these are known as allies), endure endless sanctions, and basically go prostrate and allow Pete Hegseth’s patriotic hired killers to pull a Muammar Gaddafi on whatever leader arises.
“Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE! We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!”
Iran’s FM Araghchi said his country is not looking for a ceasefire. “When we negotiated with them twice, and every time they attacked us in the middle of negotiations,” he told NBC News. “So there is no request for a ceasefire by us, and there is no request for the negotiation with the U.S. from us. We have never sent any messages to them.”
In response, Trump said the US will “hit them extremely hard over the next 2-3 weeks.” It should be obvious by now that any “hit” (for instance, murdering school girls) will result in retaliation by Iran. The Stone Age metaphor works both ways. If not for strict censorship, we would see the widespread destruction in Israel, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
The Department of State put up a post of Trump bloviating from a gold-plated Oval Office: “We have all the cards, Iran has none. We are in this military operation for 32 days and they have been eviscerated. They are no longer the bully of the Middle East.”
It’s true. Trump has “eviscerated” Iranian civilians, but not much of Iran’s military capability safely 800 meters underground. On April 1, for instance, the IRGC, in collaboration with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Hezbollah, and Ansar Allah, launched attacks against Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights with loitering munitions, cruise and ballistic missiles. Does that sound like evisceration?
“A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces said Iran fired over 300 ballistic missiles, UAVs, suicide drones and cruise missiles” on March 28, according to the CIA’s favorite newspaper, The Washington Post.
Occasionally, however, there is a ray of truth coming out of this cognitively impaired president. He said it is not “possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things” because “we’re fighting wars” for Israel.
I am reminded of Leo Strauss and his neocons. They were quite influential during Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq. Shadia Drury, a Canadian academic and political commentator, had something to say about the Straussian view of humanity.
For the neocons, politics is “conflict between mutually hostile groups willing to fight each other to the death. In short, they all thought that man’s humanity depended on his willingness to rush naked into battle and headlong to his death,” not for himself or his negligible humanity, but for Israel. Drury said she never imagined “the unscrupulous elite” elevated by Strauss would “come close to political power.”
Strauss “believed that society needs an elite of philosophers or intellectuals to manufacture ‘noble lies’ for the consumption of the masses,” she writes. The lies told about Iraq and Afghanistan, for neocons in the White House and Pentagon, may have been “noble,” but that depraved nobility of deception is not part of the Trump repertoire.
For a malignant narcissist of Trump’s caliber, it does not matter if the lies are threadbare and easily refuted. For Trump, everything that escapes from his “mind” is truth, and if you doubt that, if you question him, you’re a loser and maybe a domestic terrorist.
Reprinted with permission from Another Day in the Empire.