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Wild ultimatums and ‘bombing our little hearts out’: A portrait of Trump at war
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US President Donald Trump's wild swings -from optimism to frustration and anger, from de-escalation to escalation - have combined to give his war on Iran an erratic, make-it-up-as-it goes feel.
PHOTO: DOUG MILLS/NYTIMES
Erica L. Green
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump was fresh off the golf course, and his fury was building.
It was March 21, and as he settled back into his Mar-a-Lago estate for the evening, he was reading another news account about how, for all the military success the United States had in Iran, he had yet to achieve his political objectives.
