Afrasianet - The Daily Mirror newspaper publishes a report on the Trump administration, which is characterized by contradictions between the official discourse and the realities on the ground, especially with regard to the escalation against Iran.
The Daily Mirror newspaper reported that the political and military scene in the United States during the administration of US President Donald Trump was characterized by sharp contradictions between the official discourse and the realities on the ground, especially with regard to the escalation against Iran.
The newspaper pointed out that all of Trump's speeches carried the same message: "Iran is collapsing, Tehran is terrified, its military is shattered by overwhelming American power, and its navy is sunk to the bottom of the sea," considering that he was "strutting in Washington," likening him to "a man who expects a golden statue of him by tea time."
She considered that Trump built an entire political movement on "deception and delusion," after shocking his supporters with the bitter reality amid a state of complete disappointment.
In its report, the newspaper pointed out that Trump admitted that the Iranian military had been left "largely untouched" after three months of boasting and boasting in his speeches, noting that he was "carefully exercising restraint to avoid another collapse similar to what happened in Iraq."
Washington lost this confrontation on March 18, when Tehran responded to attacks on oil infrastructure by striking a major gas facility in the Gulf, reminding the world of something Washington desperately hoped everyone had forgotten: "Tehran still has enormous influence over the Strait of Hormuz."
"The only constant thing in his management is the contradiction"
From that moment on, Trump stopped controlling events and began to go after them," the newspaper said, as the United States has the most expensive military machine ever assembled, yet it has proven incapable of opening the Strait of Hormuz by force without risking global economic chaos.
According to the report, Washington's failure in the war months ago, and all that followed, was a "play," from speeches threatening to "erase Iranian civilization," to saying that "the ceasefire talks are going well," to claiming that "Iran is over," because "the only constant thing in his administration is contradiction."
Meanwhile, Iran has made no concessions, no surrender on uranium enrichment, no dismantling of nuclear infrastructure, no strategic retreat, and the regime Trump promised to dismantle has instead discovered that it can extract concessions simply by threatening to destabilize global energy markets.
Billions of pounds of frozen assets are suddenly up for debate, the Daily Mirror said, adding: "Tehran dictates the pace of things while Washington desperately searches for phrases that seem less backward and wiser."
"Washington promised hegemony and achieved nothing but stalemate"
She added that the Strait of Hormuz is overshadowed by all this, considering that this has become a constant reminder that Washington "promised hegemony and achieved nothing but stalemate."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that if Trump had spent months projecting victory, the "secretary of war" had spent those months boasting about him, screaming hegemony and crushing American resolve while the strategic reality beneath him was gradually crumbling.
Washington will finally have to face the simple fact that "Iran came out of the crisis damaged but strategically sound," and what Trump will do, as usual, is deny responsibility and quickly get rid of his loyalists as a "mafia boss" fleeing a police raid.
The newspaper reiterated that the outcome of this "conflict" was decided months ago, after Iran exposed the falsity of Trump's claims, and discovered that there is nothing to back it up except television shows, contradictory braggadocio, and a president who desperately hopes that trust alone will replace strategy.
Since then, the White House has no longer sought victory, but has been looking for a way to describe the defeat without speaking the word outright.
