Jen Psaki
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Trump says we've won.
He said it over and over again.
The war is over.
Obviously, that's not true, but that's an idea you might have if your main source of information for this war is effectively an Instagram Reel.
There's so much evidence that Trump is out of touch with the reality of the situation.
I mean, just yesterday, we learned that Trump reportedly sent the Iranians a 15-point plan to end the war.
He's repeatedly said that the Iranians are ready to make a deal, and he even boasted that the Iranians had sent him an expensive mystery present as a gesture of goodwill.
He really liked that present, talked about it a lot yesterday.
But today, not only did Iran reject that 15-point peace deal, but they accused the U.S.
of, quote, negotiating with itself.
Sick burn there, Iranians, I guess.
And they said they had no intention of holding talks with the U.S.
And then they laid out five of their own demands for ending this war, demands that are diametrically opposed to Trump's own terms for ending the war, things like full sanctions relief, compensation for war damages, and total control of the Strait of Hormuz.
According to Trump, the negotiations are going great.
Now, we don't know if Iran will hold to those demands.
We don't know if they really are refusing to negotiate through back channels.
We cannot take anything that the Iranian regime says at face value.
But then again, we can't take anything the president of this country says at face value either.
Not when he's stuck in his own fantasy about how this war is going.
And when the internal process for navigating a war appears to be editing together banger video montages of things blowing up for the commander-in-chief while he continues to operate in his own la-la land about how things are going.