Donald Trump lit up his Truth Social platform with a familiar strategy: when in doubt, blame Obama. And Biden. And Democrats. Basically everyone but himself.
As U.S. strikes on Iran escalate into what’s expected to be a prolonged military operation — one launched without congressional approval — Trump jumped online Monday to pin the entire mess on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiated under former President Barack Obama.
Trump wrote: “If I didn’t terminate Obama’s horrendous Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), Iran would have had a Nuclear Weapon three years ago. That was the most dangerous transaction we have ever entered into, and had it been allowed to stand, the World would be an entirely different place right now. You can blame Barack Hussein Obama, and Sleepy Joe Biden. THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!”
Yes, he thanked himself.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — widely considered one of Obama’s signature foreign policy achievements — was designed to curb Iran’s nuclear development program. Trump pulled the U.S. out of it during his first term, branding it “horrible” and “one-sided.” Now he’s arguing that tearing it up somehow prevented the very crisis his administration is now bombing over.
A few hours after his first post, Trump was back online, this time lashing out at Democrats for daring to question the decision to move forward with military action alongside Israel.
“The Radical Left Democrats, a Party that has completely lost its way, are complaining bitterly about the very necessary and important attack, by the United States and Israel, on Iran,” he wrote. “What most people understand is that they are only complaining BECAUSE I DID IT and, if I didn’t do it, they would be screaming — Why didn’t ‘TRUMP’ attack Iran, he should do it, IMMEDIATELY? There’s nothing surprising about this!”
He didn’t stop there.
“The fact is, whatever I do, they will be on the opposite side,” Trump continued. “These people are SICK, CRAZY, and DEMENTED, but America, despite them all, is now BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE.”
Meanwhile, the operation — dubbed Operation Epic Fury — has already cost lives. At least six American service members have been killed in Iran’s counterattacks. Trump and his team have scrambled to defend the joint strike with Israel as necessary and justified.
Speaking Tuesday alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump claimed: “We were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion they were going to attack first. I didn’t want that to happen.”
There’s just one problem: Pentagon officials with access to intelligence reports have said they saw no indication Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States.
So here we are — American troops dead, a widening conflict in the Middle East, and a president who’s online congratulating himself and blaming two former presidents for a war he chose to launch.
