https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/trump-to-declare-iran-war-is-winding-down-and-others-need-to-resolve-hormuz-00854265President Donald Trump will use a primetime address Wednesday night to declare that the month-long war in Iran is winding down, against a backdrop of spiking oil prices and increasingly dismal poll numbers.The president has telegraphed that message in interviews, social media posts and public comments over the past 24 hours, laying the groundwork for a speech that is expected to claim that all military objectives have been met, according to six people familiar with the planning and granted anonymity to speak candidly. He also intends to harshly scapegoat NATO allies for the biggest unresolved matter of the war, Iran’s ongoing restrictions of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.Steve Bannon, Trump’s former White House chief strategist, said the president will essentially declare victory, laying out what he’s achieved in Iran and what he will do before the U.S. leaves along with “dumping on the NATO allies – it’s their issue.”“Two, three weeks, definable objectives. ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ — and we are hanging around a couple of weeks to conquer some more — maybe even then a ceasefire, while reiterating that the Hormuz situation is the Gulf Emirates’ and the Europeans’ to solve, and declare victory,” he added.The president’s decision to deliver a major address about the war’s endgame, coming as an additional 2,500 U.S. Marines make their way to the region, may be primarily an attempt to assuage voters’ concerns and Wall Street’s unease about energy markets and the knock-on effects of the strait closure.
With the conflict ongoing, the speech offers Trump an opportunity to lay out the war’s objectives, what amounts to victory and how he intends to move forward if ceasefire talks sputter. Politically, it’s a heavy lift for the president given the broad unpopularity of the Iran war and his own relative unease at delivering more scripted, formal remarks direct to camera.“This is a big challenge for President Trump because it’s not his natural environment. It cannot be confrontational. It needs to be reassuring,” one of the people familiar said. “It needs to be very direct because he’s not just communicating with the American people but the Iranians, our allies in the region and our allies in Europe.”The president’s first primetime address since the war began comes about two weeks ahead of an oft-repeated four-to-six-week timeline for military operations in Iran.Although Trump has made several public statements declaring that indirect talks with Iran are making progress, there is little evidence that the two countries are anywhere close to an agreement — and some in the Iranian regime continue to insist that no talks are happening at all. In a social media post Wednesday morning, Trump asserted that Iran “has asked…for a CEASEFIRE!” But he added a key condition for accepting: “We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear.”Declaring an end to the conflict with Iran still blocking the strait, which has driven oil prices over $100 per barrel, further clarifies Trump’s desire to find an off-ramp to a conflict that he initiated along with Israel 32 days ago. Although the president has not ruled out ordering ground forces to restore open navigation through the strait, or to seize Iran’s oil supply, he has in recent days taken to blaming European allies for not doing more to ease the bottleneck.
>>1502360>mission accomplished all over again I honestly didn’t think I’d again see something so hilariously retarded so soon
>>1502364“Women can wear pants again and we control the strait so we can choke China any time we want.”There. That’s it.
>>1502383At least when Bush did it they had effectively taken control of the government
>>1502392Oh how I wish Bush represented the limits of the depths of American stupidity.
The mission is accomplished. Opening that strait has nothing to do with President Trump's goals, only to destroy irans ability to strike at the American heartland. We've done that now. The strait is Europe and Asians problem, we caused it for you but we don't give a fuck and never gave a fuck. This was a move done to save the lives of Americans from Iranian nuclear bomb, the security of our fake allies (who refused to help us against Iranian aggression btw) is not a concern. Its called America First. If your nations had leaders that cared for their country as much as President Trump cares about America, maybe you wouldn't be flooded with rapist migrant Muslims
>>1502406meanwhile gas keeps going up dummy>It's called America Firstno it's called Israel First
>>1502411Briben raised gas more without even fighting a war. Just with bog standard Democratic policies.
>>1502411If you keep making fun of the shills for being zogbots, they're just going to keep trying to change the topic to something about Biden
>>1502414>>1502411Why didn't you care about cost of living this much when Briben and Obongo were in power?
>>1502412>Please ignore covidPer your own estimations it took Biden 2 years to get to that point. After a year of bringing prices down, Trump decided to speedrun it by promptly bringing them back to Biden's highest levels in a month and a half.
>>1502412I don’t even mind if Trump nukes the US by accident because Biden did so much worse
The fact of the matter is we won. We've achieved all goals and can leave. That big mess we left behind? Clean it up tranny janny eurocucks. Unironically not my problem. America First.
>>1502406Trump’s goals, huh?
>>1502421>goals
>>1502415>Bribenwho?>ObongoI have literally never even heard of these people.>>1502412>Bribenwho is Briben? How can somebody I've never heard of raise gas prices?
>>1502421>The fact of the matter is we won. We've achieved all goals and can leave. That big mess we left behind? Clean it up tranny janny eurocucks. Unironically not my problem. Israel First.
>>1502425>>1502421The irony is Europe is just going to pay Iran to let them through while the US remains completely cut off from the strait.
>>1502412>Briben Putin*
>>1502429We don't need it. Never have.
>>1502421 it do be like that don’t it this is obamas fault
>>1502436Iran attacked America almost 50 years ago. Every president has failed to do something about it, until now. And we won.
>>1502383It was also a smoking gun for how long the American media has had a conservative bias. If a democrat pulled the stunt bush did, they'd be still up in arms instead of celebrating, then now burying it.
>>1502444>We've always been at war with Eastasia
I honestly feel for the U.S. President. He has faced claims of sexual assault and scrutiny regarding a past association with Jeffrey Epstein. While many of us have been friends with someone who eventually did something terrible, that doesn't mean we shared their actions. I have read the files, yet I see little definitive proof that he engaged in the same behavior as Epstein. Regardless of your stance, the immense stress of the presidency has clearly aged him.
>>1502432Every conservative right now is Spongebob in the episode where he spends a day in Sandy's house without any water. Every day is a new cope.
>>1502486>Guys, won't you think of the poor billionaire who has 10xd his networth and rigged the supreme court to let him break the law whenever he wants? His feelings must be so hurt :(
>>1502383Bush was a fucking genius compared to this turd.
>>1502490This.If anything he should be under more criminal scrutiny.
Americans have been waiting for their president and commander in chief to address the nation and explain why the country is at war. For weeks, Donald Trump has offered only snippets and sound bites about his decision to lead the United States into another conflict in the Middle East; his primetime address this evening was, one assumes, aimed at informing and reassuring the American public.Maybe he’d have been better off not trying. Trump’s critics (including me) have castigated him for refusing to go on television and provide a comprehensive explanation of the war to the American people. But given his performance this evening, perhaps he had the right instinct. His address did not come across as a wartime speech but instead was a disjointed series of complaints, brags, and exaggerations (along with a few outright lies) delivered by a man who looked and sounded tired. After his 19 minutes on the air—brisk by Trump’s standards—Americans could be forgiven for being even more concerned now than they were only a few days ago.A speech that should have been a clear explanation of why the United States is fighting a nation of 92 million people began instead in shambolic style. He discussed the operation that captured the president of Venezuela, perhaps hoping to make listeners believe that the Iran war will be a similarly short operation. He then said that Iran has taken losses never seen “in the history of warfare”—as if the destruction of, say, the Axis in World War II had never happened.
Trump offered little that was new, instead repeating the same lines from a short video presentation the night that he ordered attacks on the Islamic Republic, more than one month ago. He listed—rightly and correctly—the various offenses that the fanatical Iranian regime has perpetrated against the United States and other countries for nearly a half-century. But he couldn’t help himself: He patted himself on the back for killing Iranian terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani in his first term, and for cancelling the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama. (“Barack Hussein Obama,” of course.) The United States, Trump claimed in a strange moment, had emptied out all the banks in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia as part of that deal—“all the cash they had”—to send that “green, green” currency to Iran.But back to the war: What is America fighting for? Trump insisted that Iran must never be allowed to get a nuclear weapon. Almost no one would disagree with this general point—certainly I don’t—but Trump presented no evidence that Iran was nearing the nuclear threshold. Instead, he simply asserted that the Iranian mullahs were going to get a nuclear weapon and that the United States had to stop them: In other words, he admitted to launching a preventive war based on something that might happen one day.Trump, however, then undercut his own point by assuring the country that Iran’s “nuclear dust” was buried under mountains of rubble, inaccessible since the great success of last June’s joint Israeli-American strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. The Iranians would never be allowed to excavate any of it, he said.
>>1502496It was literally just a 20 minute reiteration of all his tweets from the last week. Literally 0 new information.
So, then, perhaps the war was about regime change, which would be the surest way to stop every evil plan gestating in Tehran, including nuclear weapons and terrorist plots. Well, no, it turns out, the war is not about that either. Trump explicitly denied that the goal was to bring down the Iranian theocracy—a staggering claim given his exhortations to the Iranian people on the first night of the war that their hour of liberation was at hand. After denying that the U.S. goal was regime change, he then claimed that regime change had now already happened because so many Iranian leaders have been killed.In addition to ending Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Trump laid out three other goals that he said were now within reach: neutralizing Iran’s ability to project power anywhere through terrorism, destroying the Iranian Navy, and eliminating Iran’s missile stocks and production capabilities. As with so many other Trump promises, the president said that he will accomplish these goals in two to three weeks. How he will do all this was left unclear, other than that he will hit Iran “extremely hard.”Meanwhile, Tehran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said only that other nations should go in, clear the Strait, and take Iran’s oil. He chided Americans for their impatience; the two world wars, and conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq took longer than the current war, he said. He also waved away any economic concerns. Everything will get better, he promised, telling viewers that only a year ago America was a “dead and crippled country” that he personally rescued. Oddly, Trump claimed that the United States has never been more economically prepared for a conflict—the “little journey,” as he called it—like the one he has led against Iran.
The president also said things that might come back to haunt him. He vowed not to let Israel or America’s friends in the Gulf “get hurt or fail in any way, shape, or form,” as if Iran were not already inflicting damage on them. And he assured Americans that gas prices would come down. (They might, but not anytime soon.) He threatened, yet again, to bomb all of Iran’s electrical plants, a likely war crime if carried out with the completeness that Trump promised should Iran refuse to … well, do whatever it is he thinks they should do. “We are unstoppable,” he said, noting that U.S. forces were in combat against “one of the most powerful countries.” (This, too, is nonsense: It takes nothing away from U.S. military valor to admit that Iran was at best a second-tier power even before the war.) America might be unstoppable, but the American president seems to be at loose ends now that the Iranians have a chokehold on a major part of the world’s energy supply.The only bright spots in the speech were in the things the president did not say. He did not, as many observers expected, prepare Americans for the introduction of ground forces into Iran. (If he now goes ahead with such an operation, he will have betrayed the public by misleading them about the course of the war.) And he did not eviscerate NATO and threaten to pull out of the alliance, as some expected him to do because of his ongoing anger at major European powers’ unwillingness to join a war they did not start.
If the president meant to be reassuring, however, he missed the mark. The reality, as best we can tell, is that Trump fully expected the Iranian regime to collapse in a matter of days or weeks, and he is now flummoxed to find out that a major war is a lot more complicated than he—or Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth—realized. The president’s delivery tonight was hardly a confidence-building exercise. He was, as he himself might say, low-energy—mumbling and lapsing into the repetitive phrases that come out when he’s riffing on a point instead of reading the speech in front of him. (I lost count of how many times he said “like nobody’s ever seen” and “decimated” and “never before.”)The president seems lost. Perhaps he should have stayed off the podium, for a bit longer, rather than display how adrift he is to the American public and the world.
>>1502406>Threatens to invade a Nato country (Greenland)>Starts a war and wonders why Noto doesnt join in.Your retard in chief is just making shit up as he goes along, flip flopping from day to day. You can't ally with someone like that. Why do you take whatever drivel he shits out from moment to moment to be the word of god? He is doing what he always does, jumps in, fucks things up then pulls out leaving other allies/investors to pay off the debt.
>muh sleepy joe dementia every accusation a confession
IRAN GOT DESTROYEDTHEY CAN CLAIM VICTORY ALL THEY WANT IT CHANGES NOTHING ABOUT REALITYTHEIR DICTATOR WAS DEAD ON DAY 1. HIS HEIR IS TOO SCARED OR TOO SCARRED TO EVEN SHOW HIS FACE.STUPID ARABS GET MOWN LOL. WE WILL SEE YOU IN 15-20 YEARS WHEN ITS TIME FOR US TO CUT MORE OF YOU DOWN.
If you think Iranians are Arabs you’re on the wrong board
trump's speech amounted to the US's surrender to Iran.It's not the first time trump has had the US surrender to a middle east country, given he surrendered to the Taliban.
>>1502550>HEIR DICTATOR WAS DEAD ON DAY 1.Unironically one of the biggest fuck ups of this entire shitshow. By killing so much of the leadership literally mid-negotiations you literally guarantee the rest and their successors will have no desire to negotiate lest they wind up the same way. And the guy was 86 anyway, if anything we did them a favor by making him a martyr instead of waiting for him to just keel over.
Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that there could be such a gigantic rift between a country's overwhelming military dominance and absolute strategic incompetence.How can anyone support this clown show?
>>1502642conservatism in america for the last half-century has been equivalent to covering one's eyes and pretending it's still the 50s. it's a powerful form of ignorance that only gets stronger over time
>This situation has been going on for 47 years, and should have been handled long before I arrived in office.Agreed. I'm not a fan of the Iran war, but this anon's bullshit >>1502643 reminds me that US politics since the 00's has been nothing but uniparty stagnation. So much has been done to get votes by exploiting ideological rifts, often made up to get the otherside, that we've gotten nowhere.Like or not, times are changing,
>>1502645you're extremely not american
>>1502637They got a similar result in Iraq part 2 when the entire Baathist regime was dismantled and now the local Shia militias who filled the vacuum 20 years ago are blowing up US bases in Iraq
>>1502664We fought that war for Kuwait.
>>1502654What do these posts do? Just post "bump" if you'e trying to keep your thread bumped.
>>1502682well they seem to activate impotent rage within you, so it's pretty worth it
>>1502680That was the part 1, part 2 was for the WMD
That was a powerful speech. Inspiring and exactly what the American people need in this period of uncertainty and risk. Really reminds me of Pericles' speech to the Athenians on the eve of the Peloponnesian War. Whoever writes Trump's speeches is seriously talented, and Trump, per usual, delivered it with strength and energy. Hard to believe this war will be over in 2-3 weeks. Thats history making right there. No occupation, no forever war, just 2 months, in and out, with a clear overwhelming victory. I don't think America has launched as successful military operation since Operation Overlord
>>1502702What do these posts do? Just post "bump" if you'e trying to keep your thread bumped.
>>1502703Why are you upset I want to discuss and comment on the presidents speech in the thread about the presidents speech?
>>1502711see >>1502703
>>1502711Better post than the retarded spammers horseshit that thinks only on person posts on /news, and has created this 'esl shill' windmill to attack.Essentially there's either a very dedicated troll, or a ridiculously mentally ill antifa dyke that trolls the board for 50 hours a day posting nonsense. And the retard needs a fucking dictionary.
>>1502747u mad esl shill?
>>1502643Not even that, conservatives just want a dictatorship. that's the real reason they back trump.They unironically hate democracy.
>>1502751Indeed. Look at how free the more "liberal" european countries are and how free they are.
>>1502751No, no, no. They want a democracy, they just want the president to be able to 'fix it' when it doesn't land on the right outcome! And they love freedom! As long as everyone around them uses their freedom to do exactly the same things they do
>>1502769Wait, who are you talking about?Do liggerals really?
>>1502749No. I, like your parents and everyone you've ever met, think you're entirely wothless.
>>1502771>>1502772yeah, u mad
>>1502773Yes (๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭ ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧₒᵤ!
>>1502771>No you
>>1502777I'm just shocked at the liggeral's ability to reflect upon their actions.I suppose self-reflection isn't part of the piggeral skillset. Only projection.
>>1502783>I'm easily shockedWe fucking know.
I can't wait for the>I’m the only person who could have used a nuclear weapon. No other president is capable. America has never had such a high iq president like me. I had to use a nuke to stop Iran from having one, ok folks. I’ve heard from leaders from around the world and they all said, ‘mr president thank you sir, you are the best president the USA has ever had. Joe Biden couldn’t have done it, only a strong person like you could have done it.’ I’d like to thank Pete Hegseth. He was my senior advisor on this, and really is the one responsible for this. So I’d like to thank Pete for the encouragement. What a tremendous guy. We call him Kill Em' All Pete. Thank you for your attention to this matter.tweet from Trump in a month or two.
>>1502783genuinely where does the whole "liggural" phrase even come from? It sounds like you're having a stroke.
>>1502961Iran still won’t surrender
>>1502977It's one guy trying to force a meme. Just ignore him.
>>1502977Pathetic attempt to combine liberal and nigger because all Maga has to make their jokes off of since they lost 2020 to a dementia ridden corpse is racism.
>>1503003Nah it's the most at moniker for the modern unintentionally fascist "left wingers"It's actually a portmanteau of three words.>Liberal>Lying>The actual meaning of the n-word, which is lacking intelligence."liggeral" best captures the modern wagged piggeral in it's final form.
>>1503007>It's a combination of 3 words>Literally two of those words have the same start so it's impossible to tell it's more than just two>Also the third word just has the middle taken out making it impossible to tell that was the intent eitherMeds.
US fighter jet shot down in Iran, search is underway for the two pilots
>>1502961That's probably one of the reasons they're sacking generals at the Pentagon. Generals say that invading/nuking Iran is retarded, they get the boot. Trump wants to get out of this war as quickly and in an as audacious a manner as possible. I've heard a weird mix of operation market garden plus a nuclear strike on Tehran floated, and I'd believe Trump would go for something like that. Meanwhile, Hegseth just wants to kill Saracens and complete the prophecy in Revelations. Nuclear war is pretty damn biblical (bombs that harness the power of the sun, a single one which can kill millions and which poisons the land with horrifying and painful disease, and a few of which can cause the Earth to be blanketed in ash and darkness leading to mass starvation). It would definitely fulfill the role of the second, third, and fourth horsemen.
>>1503073I’ve read Revelations at least twice and I don’t remember nuking Iran being involved
>>1503089You should read the gospels and see if you notice how it's the same story told a bunch of different times, and there are huge differences between them. Almost like that whole book is made up bullshit.
>>1503105Not really relevant to the discussion of eschatology and its interpretation. What I’m asking for is an explanation of how Iran being attacked or conquered or whatever destroyed idk has to do with what’s in the book of revelations. It should be easy to explain if it’s a thing which apparently millions of Americans are following
>>1503113It's relevant in that I'm pointing out there's no good reason to believe the book of revelations has any supernatural predictive power. So you don't really need an answer, the premise is false.
>>1503157Christians believe it. Here isn’t the place to ask but it’s interesting to me
>>1503186No they fucking don't you fucking retard.
>>1503186Goddamn. You tell a mentally ill LGBT to donate to a church to save people and this is the fallout? Seething in literally every single thread.WTF? Seek mental help.>MUH BIIBBLE SAY SUN YER BUTTHOLE FOR 6 HOURS A DAY!!!That's the shit the jews do since it's in their part.You remember the time Jesus flipped a fucking table and whipped them in the temple so the jews killed him? That's the Christian part.
>>1503089In order for the events of Revelations to happen the third temple needs to be rebuilt on the temple moount, but that's where the al aqsa mosque currently sits, so zionists are hoping that Iran strikes the temple mount. Zionists are a giant death cult basically. >sincerely, A. Christfag
>>1503220Indeed. This is the problem. They're causing strife to bring about their savior to force him to appear.And I think they've had two messiahs at this point.1. Jesus, who was pissed at their tricks2. Hitler, who was also pissed at their tricks.I don't know what the 3rd messiahs will be like, but I'm not expecting anything positive for the jews based on the escalation.
>>1503186No, you're right. I am interested to see how a believer would answer too. But like... don't expect there to be a train of logic you can follow, because there is no logic behind it. These people don't believe things for good reasons, if they did they wouldn't believe in the bible. Good luck finding your explanation!
>>1503186They choose what they want to believe and how they want to interpret it. For instance, it's not uncommon for American Evangelicals to downplay the sermon on the mount (because it's woke) or reinterpret the passage of the rich man having a harder time getting into heaven than a camel through an eye of the needle as the eye of a needle being a wide gatehouse and the camel having a really easy passage through it. Prosperity theology and seed money are believed by many Evangelicals but rejected by most Christians and Muslims. Attempting to force Revelations is considered to be satanic* by most branches of Christianity and Islam.*Satan referring to the title, not Lucifer, as in the Adversary, the force/inner impulse that seeks to corrupt and destroy creation and order.
>>1503225America is probably going back to white identitarianism in the coming decades.You can't have chinese migrants stealing shit in the name of China for fifty years and keep pretending that everybody is the same.
>>1503241Probably not. Not unless we're including white hispanics.Pop culture liberalism has destroyed white people.
>>1503313Looking at a maga rally, I'm pretty sure bath salts and bigotry destroyed white people.
