Trump's inner circle showing 'buyer's remorse' over Iran war and fear president was 'high on his own supply,' report say
Source: The Independent
Monday 16 March 2026 12:26 EDT
Members of President Donald Trumps inner circle are experiencing buyers remorse over the Iran conflict and are beginning to regard Operation Epic Fury as a disastrous mistake, according to a report.
The U.S. and Israel launched surprise joint airstrikes against Tehran in the early hours of Saturday, February 28, killing Irans Supreme Leader Ali Ayatollah Khamenei on the first day of the aerial bombardment, ending his 47-year authoritarian reign in one fell swoop.
Iran quickly hit back with retaliatory strikes of its own against its Gulf neighbor states hosting American and Israeli military assets. So far, 13 U.S. servicemembers have died. Meanwhile, Tehrans moves to target tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the worlds total oil supply is shipped, have caused global fuel prices to soar.
Now an administration source quoted by Axios has claimed that Trump was high on his own supply when he gave the greenlight for the joint operation to commence.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-iran-war-b2939542.html
bucolic_frolic
(54,910 posts)Malignant narcissism becomes more pronounced with age. Could result in oodles and boodles of plastic surgery. Or invincibility delusions. Or younger and younger companions, no matter the cost. Power is not studied as much because of fewer examples. Mix in Operation Epstein Files, and there you have a home brew.
Jack Valentino
(4,910 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(22,979 posts)Would love to know who the source is my guess is its someone not wearing a brand new pair of ill fitting Florsheims
Initech
(108,582 posts)All the sick fucks that made this happen need to be fired and imprisoned immediately.
flashman13
(2,355 posts)Initech
(108,582 posts)Blues Heron
(8,744 posts)mwmisses4289
(3,955 posts)Blue_Roses
(13,859 posts)you are right. Trump will go scorched earth before he gives up.
Quanto Magnus
(1,342 posts)just got into military drones, you can bet this is going on longer.
FakeNoose
(41,318 posts)
Grim Chieftain
(1,644 posts)ShazzieB
(22,526 posts)
cab67
(3,712 posts)I doubt it would actually work, but a bunch of people in that inner circle need to sit him down and read him the riot act. Threaten to 25th him if he doesnt do something.
Blue_Roses
(13,859 posts)and hire more clueless minions
Polybius
(21,839 posts)The only one he can't fire is Vance.
J_William_Ryan
(3,471 posts)Consider the stupidity of believing the second Trump regime would be any different than the first.
Grim Chieftain
(1,644 posts)Think of all the good, decent people we have lost in recent months, and yet there he is, the most vile, toxic, wretched being ever to occupy the presidency.
God, I loathe him and his enablers.
C_U_L8R
(49,310 posts)Its more like a dumbasss doubletake.
Trump and his clueless team are creating a failure of historical proportion.
diane in sf
(4,244 posts)BattleRow
(2,341 posts)Cattle were blamed for the vast amount of methane emissions they produce.
Well...how's about all the toxic emissions emanating from ALL the b.s. from the oral orifice?
pat_k
(13,235 posts)He lives in a fantasy world created by his malignant narcissism and cruel psychopathy. He doesn't just believe his own hype. He is so immersed in his own delusions of brilliance and power he lost all contact with reality years ago.
The true insanity is the number of people who joined him in his deluded bubble.
As more of them crash into the wall of reality, there will be more and more "leaks" about his volatility and opposition in the ranks.
liberalla
(11,059 posts)Idiocy? Lunacy? Stupidity?
Those are all his strengths... They liked that when they weren't being harmed. They liked the "make-believe" picture he painted because it appealed to people who shared his prejudices and who bought the rest of his foolishness...
And now? Everyone is still too chickenshit to step up and tell him some truth.
Get used to those feelings of buyer's remorse!
truthisfreedom
(23,531 posts)Just farts.
Aussie105
(7,851 posts)Those being:
1. Less competent than Trump at running a country.
2. Capable of loud bluff and bluster that signify nothing.
3. Unable and unwilling to tell Trump he is mentally defective and doing it wrong.
Result?
Well, we are watching it in action now.
Let's face it, America is a world superpower in decline.
Only two things can rescue America.
1. Celebrating the day of his death and declaring that a public holiday to be repeated every year.
2. Removing anyone tainted by the smell of the Orange Menace from any position of power.