The Daily Populous Friday April 3rd, 2026 morning edition
Authored by thebulwark.com and submitted by BulwarkOnline

Trump at Miami International Airport, March 27, 2026. He did this! (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)

It is true, as the president said last night, that the Iranian navy and air force have been almost eliminated.

It is also beside the point. The Islamic Republic has never been—and never wanted to be—a naval power. They have never made extensive use of air power. Those two branches have nothing to do with the regime’s strategic goals. Trump bragging about winning the sea and air wars in Iran is like Norway taunting America over beating us in the Olympic biathlon: America does not care about the biathlon; we’re a hockey country.

The Iranian leadership cares about two things: preserving its theocratic regime and possessing strategic weapons.

When this war ends in “two or three weeks” the Iranian regime will be more securely in power than it was before the war and it will have demonstrated the power of a strategic weapon.

America will have lost. Iran will have won. Let’s examine the scope of our defeat and their victory.

Made_Human_Music on April 2nd, 2026 at 18:33 UTC »

America lost in 2016 and again in 2024

ducksonaroof on April 2nd, 2026 at 18:19 UTC »

trump is a loser

VRchaeologist on April 2nd, 2026 at 18:17 UTC »

Excuse me, our President doesn't shit the bed, he shits his pants.