The Graphic Proof That Trump’s Jaw-Dropping Bluff Has Become His Worst Nightmare

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters Donald Trump thought he could strike Iran and wrap it all up before you could say America First.

It worked in Venezuela, and the United States managed to hit—but not obliterate—Tehran’s nuclear facility the first time around last June.

But now we are more than six months into a war that nobody, not even Trump, really wanted.

In this week alone, 13 separate incidents in the Middle East prove this is not the ghost war the president is trying to convince his MAGA base it is.

This isn’t TV reality.

It’s the real thing.

Trump’s biggest bluff didn’t work.

He should have folded.

Instead, he twisted.

Into knots.

And now he is trying to pretend it never happened.

It’s an operation, a skirmish, a conflict...

“small potatoes.” But with the midterm elections just around the corner, the “war” with Iran refuses to die, even as the casualties mount.

Lest we forget, 18 U.S. servicemen and women have been killed, and 820 have been wounded since Trump launched his strikes on Iran in February.