President Donald Trump is already losing interest in the war he launched four weeks ago as thousands of U.S. troops are on their way to the Middle East, according to officials.
The 79-year-old president has deployed Marines and Army paratroopers to the region to prepare to fight in a war that he declares has been “already won.” That contradiction is frustrating senior White House aides and outside allies, according to three officials who spoke to MS NOW.
“[Trump] is getting a little bored with Iran,” said an unnamed senior White House official. “Not that he regrets it or something — he’s just bored and wants to move on.”
That official said Trump’s declarations are “mostly hyperbole” and reflect his waning interest in the war and his desire “to declare victory and move on.” A second White House official agreed with that assessment and said the president is more interested in the economy, domestic issues and the midterm elections.
“The White House’s public communications have suggested a similar detachment — presenting the conflict less as an ongoing war with human lives at stake and more as a cultural moment that generates online content,” MS NOW reported. “That has emerged as a major, if mostly quiet, point of dissension among White House staffers and Trump allies.”
Official social media accounts for the White House have pumped out flippant internet memes referencing “Iron Man,” “SpongeBob Squarepants” and rap music over unclassified videos of bombing campaigns in Iran, and not everyone in the administration is on board.
“The war videos are cringe and disrespectful and gross,” the senior White House official told MS NOW. “It makes me feel embarrassed.”
A former White House official questioned what the administration was gaining from the videos, but White House communications director Steven Cheung insisted they would keep pushing them out.
“[The] memes will continue and there isn’t a damn thing this person can do about it because they have no influence,” Cheung said. “This person clearly isn’t in the room and is a low-level staffer.”
The second White House official confirmed there was a clear “divide” in the White House over the war messaging strategy, but allies recognized Trump’s premature victory declaration as similar to his voter fraud claims after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden, but they said it lands differently during a war.
“He has learned he can tell the American people his feeling, and — with enough time — the American people will accept his lie,” said the former Trump White House official. “Just telling us the war is won isn’t good enough. We need to see it, we need to feel it.”
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