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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump delayed bombing Iran for 24 hours so nothing would interrupt his comedy dinner. Robert Barnes says the White House Correspondents Dinner was supposed to be Trump's revenge night, payback for 2011, when Obama spent his speech roasting Trump so mercilessly that the joke became it's why...

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Trump's Fmr. Lawyer Robert Barnes says he's no longer fighting Iran to achieve a strategic objective; Trump's fighting to force Tehran to kneel, and he may destroy MAGA trying. He says Trump watched the enormous crowds turn out for Khamenei's funeral and became personally agitated by it. He had convinced himself Iran's leadership was hated, that the regime was weak, and that a little more pressure would finally make the Iranian people turn on it. Instead, millions came into the streets, and Robert says Trump took it almost as a personal insult. And from there, the strategy became brutally simple: Make Iran cower. Trump tried to reopen the Strait of Hormuz's Omani shipping lane. Iran had repeatedly warned it would attack vessels using it before the dispute was resolved. Trump apparently convinced himself they wouldn't, then Iran did exactly what it said it would do. Trump became enraged and hit back, Iran kept fighting, Trump escalated again, but Iran still didn't capitulate, so Trump decided to hit harder. Robert says this has been the same failed theory of victory for months. The problem is virtually everyone around Trump who understands Iran has reportedly told him the same thing, but he ignored them. Robert says Trump can now imagine only two outcomes: Iran cowers before him, or America conquers Iran. That's why compromise keeps collapsing. But while Trump waits for Iran to break, something else is breaking instead: MAGA. Robert says the older Fox News Republican base is still with Trump, but the younger, independent, podcast-driven, anti-war wing of MAGA is increasingly getting off the train. He says many of them briefly came back after the MOU, then he restarted the war. Robert calls it a "nightmare version of Groundhog Day." The same bombing, the same promises that Iran is days from capitulation, the same excuses. And he thinks the political consequences could be catastrophic. Robert Barnes

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Trump's Fmr. Lawyer Robert Barnes says Trump thinks he's escalating to make Iran capitulate, but in reality, Tehran has learned how to play him. That is what makes this moment so dangerous. Trump appears to believe the war can still be ended quickly if he just applies a little more pressure and moves further up the escalation ladder. Then wait for Iran to surrender, but Robert says Iran is never going to give him that. For Trump, this is a war he wants to finish on favorable terms; for Iran, it's existential. That means Washington and Tehran are not operating with the same tolerance for pain, the same timeline, or the same definition of victory. And Tehran now understands the man across the table better than he understands himself. Iran has watched Trump repeatedly convince himself that another strike will finally produce the submission the previous strikes failed to achieve. Then, when the opposite happens, he becomes frustrated and escalates again. Iran appears to be exploiting that weakness with a disciplined tit-for-tat strategy rather than random escalation or total war. Each move raises the cost without immediately giving Trump the clean pretext he might want for unlimited escalation. Robert thinks Iran is studying his psychology and asking one question before every major action: Will this provoke him too early, or will it punish and humiliate him at exactly the right moment? That distinction is crucial because humiliation may be Trump’s greatest vulnerability. Robert Barnes

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