Donald Trump was having one of those days again. One of those days when he felt like Julius Caesar - only without the laurel wreath, armed instead with a Truth Social post and three stealth bombers. Puffing out his chest with pride, the president declared over the weekend the \u201ctotal, absolute, biblically-complete\u201d victory over Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Fordo, Natanz, Isfahan - all flattened. Dust. History. \u201cWE HAVE WON!\u201d he wrote - as if he could reverse reality with the sheer force of typing, letter by letter, against the gravity of facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Iran - that ungrateful upstart - actually had the audacity deluxe not to stay buried beneath the rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then came Iran\u2019s response on Tuesday - and what a response it was: \u201cOur nuclear program will resume without interruption.\u201d Short and painful. The message sounded like something from a Marvel movie, as if Thanos had returned, only in a turban and with centrifuges instead of Infinity Stones. Just picture Trump\u2019s face when the briefing from Tehran landed on his desk: the toupee halfway airborne, the Diet Coke halfway swallowed, his mood sinking below Mar-a-Lago\u2019s sea level. What exactly remains in Iran, no one knows. But \u201cenough,\u201d said a senior official - and that was enough to trigger a cold nuclear sweat in the West Wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world saw a president who believed he could reshape geopolitical reality with three bombs and a Bible quote. But instead of a century-defining peace, he delivered a three-day meme. While Trump was still fantasizing in all-caps about \u201cthe end of the nuclear threat,\u201d Iranian technicians were already loading uranium back into their high-gloss centrifuges - likely with a sardonic grin and the hashtag: #ThanksDonald. Say what you will about the Iranian regime - but in the art of trolling, they seem to have earned a master\u2019s degree. They didn\u2019t even wait 72 hours before giving Trump the ultimate middle finger - not with missiles, not with diplomacy, but with the simple announcement that they would just carry on. One might almost think Tehran had launched a social media division - under the name: \u201cDepartment of Maximum Embarrassment for Western Leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And Trump? He declared that \u201cboth sides\u201d had violated the ceasefire - one of those statements that would make Orwell spin in his grave. He condemned Iran, condemned Israel, condemned the facts. His latest strategy: if reality doesn\u2019t fit your story, just throw a red tie over it and declare it the enemy. The world laughs. Or cries. Or both. Donald Trump, the \u201cgreat deal-maker,\u201d has taught the world a lesson - unfortunately not in diplomacy, but in hubris. And Iran? Iran is enriching again. Uranium, of course. Not humor. That - they already had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Donald Trump hatte wieder einen dieser Tage. Einen dieser Tage, an dem er sich wie Julius C\u00e4sar f\u00fchlte \u2013 nur ohne den Lorbeerkranz, daf\u00fcr mit einem Truth-Social-Post und drei Tarnkappenbombern. Mit stolz geschwellter Brust verk\u00fcndete der Pr\u00e4sident am Wochenende den \u201etotalen, restlosen, biblisch-vollendeten\u201c Sieg \u00fcber das iranische Atomprogramm. Fordo, Natanz, Isfahan \u2013 alles platt. Staub. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satire","category-topstory"],"yoast_head":"\n