Trump’s Iran Post Is Unhinged and Alarming
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Tim Miller takes on Trump’s latest Truth Social rant about Iran—where the president calls Iran the “loser of the Middle East,” talks about the country potentially “collapsing,” and signals the war could escalate even further. He also reacts to Tucker Carlson’s claim that Trump believes the war is polling at 90% support, and what that might mean for where this conflict is headed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Tim Moore from the bulwark here. A couple of items as we're doing, you know, |
| 0:04.5 | Kremlinology, megaology around what this White House is thinking about their Iran war that they |
| 0:13.4 | have not made a coherent case for at all. And we have a couple additional data points on this |
| 0:20.0 | over the past 24 hours that I just want to make sure to share with you. |
| 0:24.4 | The first one is a bleat from Trump very early on Saturday morning. |
| 0:30.7 | And I'm going to read that to you and gurg your lines for this. |
| 0:36.5 | Iran, which is being beat to hell, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors |
| 0:43.4 | and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. |
| 0:48.4 | I don't think that they've apologized and surrendered to their Middle East neighbors. |
| 0:53.5 | This promise was only made because of the relentless US and Israeli attack. |
| 0:57.2 | They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. |
| 1:01.6 | Okay. |
| 1:02.9 | I don't think that's really true. |
| 1:05.3 | I mean, maybe aspirationally, but I don't know that there were imminent threat to the UAE |
| 1:10.3 | and Qatar and Saudi. I also kind of don't know why there were imminent threat to the UAE and Qatar and Saudi. |
| 1:12.6 | I also kind of don't know why we care from an American first standpoint, but anyway, |
| 1:16.2 | supposedly they're looking to take over and rule the Middle East. |
| 1:19.3 | And that hasn't happened. |
| 1:20.6 | Back to the Trump fleet. |
| 1:21.6 | It is the first time that Iran has ever lost in thousands of years to surrounding Middle East countries. I might read a book about that. |
| 1:30.6 | The Middle East countries have said, thank you, President Trump. I have said, you're welcome. |
| 1:36.5 | Iran is no longer the bully of the Middle East. Instead, they are the loser of the Middle East. |
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