He Declared Victory. Iran Fired More Missiles.

I have seen a man declare victory before. My ex-husband declared victory in about every argument we ever had, right up until he was sleeping on his brother’s couch in Odessa. Declaring it and having it are two different things entirely.

Yesterday the president looked into the cameras and said, “We’ve won this. This war has been won.” He said the United States had achieved regime change in Iran. He said Iran gave him — and I want you to really sit with this — “a very big present.”

A present. From Iran. The country that has been firing missiles at us and our allies. That present.

Iran’s parliament called it a lie. Not a mischaracterization. Not spin. A lie.

And then, a few hours after the president declared total victory, Iran fired more missiles.

Now, I want to be generous here. I want to assume there is some version of events where this makes sense to somebody. But I have poured coffee at this counter for a long time and I have learned to trust what I can see over what somebody tells me I’m supposed to see. What I can see is a man who needed this to be over, so he said it was over, and the thing he said was over kept right on going without him.

PBS went and checked his claims. Hegseth’s too. You can guess how that went.

A won war doesn’t fire back, sugar. That’s sort of the whole point.

I’ll top you off before I go on break.