'Crazy pills': Internet in disbelief watching Trump's 'double speak' on Iran war
Daniel Hampton
March 9, 2026
Trump’s bogus Iran nuke claim hit with brutal fact checkDaniel Hampton
March 9, 2026
ALTERNET
U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question as he speaks during a press conference at Trump National Doral Miami in Miami, Florida, U.S., March 9, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
President Donald Trump baffled the internet Monday afternoon with conflicting new remarks on whether the war in Iran was ending or just beginning.
Trump took questions about the war, in which he was asked to clarify why he said Monday the war was "very complete" while Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said it was "just the beginning."
"So which is it?" the reporter asked. "And how long should Americans be prepared for this war to last?"
Trump replied, "Well I think you could say both. It's the beginning of building a new country. Bu they certainly - they have no Navy, they have no Air Force. They have no anti-aircraft equipment. It's all been blown up."
Trump added Iran has no leadership either, though the country reportedly named Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader of Iran, having been appointed by the Assembly of Experts earlier in the day , following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in U.S.-Israeli strikes.
"It's all gone," Trump insisted. "So, you could look at that statement. We could call it a tremendous success right now as we leave here. I could call it. Or we could go further. And we're going to go further."
The statement bewildered observers.
Columnist Peter Rothpletz remarked on X, "i feel like i am taking CRAZY PILLS."
Veteran X poster Bruce Crossing wrote, "It took us 250 years but finally elected a President with no brain."
NOTUS justice reporter Jose Pagliery simply wrote on X, "The United States of America, folks."
Washington Post columnist Max Boot wrote on X, "This should be the dictionary definition of 'double talk.'"
Salon's Paul Rosenberg simply wrote, "Schrodinger's Warcat!"
U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question as he speaks during a press conference at Trump National Doral Miami in Miami, Florida, U.S., March 9, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
President Donald Trump baffled the internet Monday afternoon with conflicting new remarks on whether the war in Iran was ending or just beginning.
Trump took questions about the war, in which he was asked to clarify why he said Monday the war was "very complete" while Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said it was "just the beginning."
"So which is it?" the reporter asked. "And how long should Americans be prepared for this war to last?"
Trump replied, "Well I think you could say both. It's the beginning of building a new country. Bu they certainly - they have no Navy, they have no Air Force. They have no anti-aircraft equipment. It's all been blown up."
Trump added Iran has no leadership either, though the country reportedly named Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader of Iran, having been appointed by the Assembly of Experts earlier in the day , following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in U.S.-Israeli strikes.
"It's all gone," Trump insisted. "So, you could look at that statement. We could call it a tremendous success right now as we leave here. I could call it. Or we could go further. And we're going to go further."
The statement bewildered observers.
Columnist Peter Rothpletz remarked on X, "i feel like i am taking CRAZY PILLS."
Veteran X poster Bruce Crossing wrote, "It took us 250 years but finally elected a President with no brain."
NOTUS justice reporter Jose Pagliery simply wrote on X, "The United States of America, folks."
Washington Post columnist Max Boot wrote on X, "This should be the dictionary definition of 'double talk.'"
Salon's Paul Rosenberg simply wrote, "Schrodinger's Warcat!"
Erik De La Garza
March 9, 2026
ALTERNET
Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Experts are pushing back on recent claims by President Donald Trump that Iran was just weeks away from obtaining a nuclear weapon before the United States military action late last month.
Trump has said in recent days that Iran would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks if the U.S. had not launched aerial strikes. But reporting from NBC News and statements from nuclear experts suggest the president’s timeline "is not true."
"Before U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in June, Iran was days away from having enough fissile material for multiple nuclear weapons, according to U.S. intelligence agencies and the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency," according to the report. However, producing an actual nuclear weapon would require "designing, manufacturing, and testing" a warhead capable of being mounted on a ballistic missile – a process experts told NBC News would likely take months or even a year.
U.S. intelligence agencies have maintained that Iran has not decided to revive its weapons program, which was halted in 2003.
“It would be inaccurate to suggest Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon before the U.S. and Israel launched the current air war on Feb. 28 because of the damage done by the June strikes, according to assessments from the IAEA and independent nuclear experts,” NBC News reported Monday.
Iran does retain significant nuclear material, the outlet added. “Before the June airstrikes, the IAEA said Iran had 972 pounds of uranium enriched to a level of 60%," it said. "If it were enriched further to about 90%, that would be enough fissile material for roughly a dozen atomic bombs.”
Experts are pushing back on recent claims by President Donald Trump that Iran was just weeks away from obtaining a nuclear weapon before the United States military action late last month.
Trump has said in recent days that Iran would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks if the U.S. had not launched aerial strikes. But reporting from NBC News and statements from nuclear experts suggest the president’s timeline "is not true."
"Before U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in June, Iran was days away from having enough fissile material for multiple nuclear weapons, according to U.S. intelligence agencies and the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency," according to the report. However, producing an actual nuclear weapon would require "designing, manufacturing, and testing" a warhead capable of being mounted on a ballistic missile – a process experts told NBC News would likely take months or even a year.
U.S. intelligence agencies have maintained that Iran has not decided to revive its weapons program, which was halted in 2003.
“It would be inaccurate to suggest Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon before the U.S. and Israel launched the current air war on Feb. 28 because of the damage done by the June strikes, according to assessments from the IAEA and independent nuclear experts,” NBC News reported Monday.
Iran does retain significant nuclear material, the outlet added. “Before the June airstrikes, the IAEA said Iran had 972 pounds of uranium enriched to a level of 60%," it said. "If it were enriched further to about 90%, that would be enough fissile material for roughly a dozen atomic bombs.”
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