Trump’s Record of Deluded War Boasts Comes Back to Bite Him

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Donald Trump has boasted about winning the war against Iran at least 66 times since launching his strikes six months ago, according to a new Daily Beast analysis.

The conflict—which has claimed the lives of 18 U.S. servicemen and women—reached the milestone with peace talks in tatters and no end in sight.

And yet the 80-year-old president has continued to insist that Tehran is defeated and its military has been decimated by the U.S. attacks.

The reality is that the war the president insisted on March 1 would be over in “four to five weeks” appears to have emboldened the Iranian regime even though most of its leadership was wiped out and its military took some major hits.

Over the last six months, the president’s approval ratings have tumbled while gas prices have reached record highs because of the war and the resulting chaos in the Strait of Hormuz, a primary oil route.

Perhaps even more damaging for Trump, it has fractured his MAGA base and left Republican candidates defending a war they were not given the option of voting for or against in Congress.

In July, Hunter Biden mocked the president, saying he planned to nominate Trump for ending “the war with Iran at least 38 times.” “No President in History has ended the same war so many times,” Biden, 56, wrote on X .

In fact, according to our research, Trump has celebrated America’s success in Iran 66 times since Feb.

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On March 7, he dismissed Britain’s reticence in joining the attacks, saying: “We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!” A few days later, on March 11, he said: “Let me tell you, we’ve won.

You know, you never like to say too early you won.

We won.

We won the—in the first hour, it was over.

We won.” By June 14, Trump was claiming on Truth Social that a peace deal with Iran was done and dusted, with America the victor.