Donald Trump

The Daily Adda - A stunning new report from The Wall Street Journal has exposed a deeply troubling picture of President Donald Trump during one of the most critical national security moments of his second term. According to senior administration officials, Trump completely lost it during an active military rescue operation tied to the Iran war. His own team made the extraordinary decision to physically remove him from the room and shut the door behind them.

The crisis began on Good Friday when a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Iran and two American airmen went missing behind enemy lines. When Trump received the news, he screamed at aides for hours. The scene inside the West Wing, according to sources, was not one of calm leadership. It was one of a president who had completely lost his grip.

Senior officials including Vice President JD Vance and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles dialed directly into the Situation Room to receive live, minute-by-minute updates on the rescue operation. Trump was not in that room. He was briefed separately, only at what officials described as “meaningful moments,” over the phone.

Heather Cox Richardson - Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was so unstable and angry after learning on April 3 that Iranians had shot down an American jet that his aides kept him out of the room as they received updates, simply telling him what was going on at important moments.

The journalists describe an erratic president who entered the war after Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinced him the Iranian people would support such strikes and after his successful extraction of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores convinced him the military could pull off another quick victory. He seemed to believe that if his gamble worked, he would be saving the world.

But while the strikes did indeed kill Iran’s top leaders and badly damage its military, the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz. Trump did not foresee this outcome, although he was warned of it. He told his team that the Iranian government would give up before it closed the strait and, if it did manage to close the strait, the U.S. military would handle it. The journalists report Trump has “marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed.”