Future’s So Bright…😎

When the U.S. military’s top general met with Trump and laid out the risks of launching a major and extended attack on Iran, one of the issues he flagged was America’s stockpile of munitions.

Now that's being put to the testhttps://t.co/Ir2eo6TyFJ @mgordonwsj @shelbyholliday

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) March 1, 2026

Ted Cruz: "I have no indication they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons" pic.twitter.com/JJRUjeUXHJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2026

(Cruz is not up for reelection.)

Watch these two minutes from @clarissaward: "I've been talking to sources throughout the region. They are very concerned that this is rapidly getting to a place where it will be very difficult to pull back from the brink..." pic.twitter.com/pVHoF3zWxl

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 1, 2026

(Nobody could have foreseen.)

Speaking of unforeseen:

Apparently the “plan” is that Trump and Netanyahu will go on Iranian TV and based on their huge popularity convince the people of Iran who they betrayed last month to topple the Islamic Republic. pic.twitter.com/31pj1AmDQa

— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) March 1, 2026

Hey, everybody! We’re making omelets! Let’s break some eggs!

a slurring Trump in new video on American troops killed by Iran: “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be more.“ pic.twitter.com/oSARG2xrv7

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2026

Trump hasn’t spoken in public for days. He’s only seen in videos, and in this one, he can’t speak. 🤔 And it gets worse (this may be the same video):

In a six-minute video posted on Truth Social, Trump said "thousands" of Iranian regime guards and police have called him and asked for immunity. Trump added that he would give them "full immunity" if they surrendered.

Former CIA Director John Brennan discussed Trump's offer on MS NOW with host Chris Jansing.

"I don't understand what he means by that because there's going to be a lot of bloodletting inside of Iran," Brennan said. "All of the slaughter, unfortunately, that took place at the hands of the regime, with the protests and demonstrators. There's going to be some accountability and a day of reckoning inside of Iran."

On Saturday, the U.S. and Israel coordinated a series of strikes against several sites in Iran. The operation took out multiple military assets and killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the brutal dictator who had ruled the country since 1989.

Brennan added that Trump seemed to be trying to give the Iranian guards a way to escape accountability, which is something he can't guarantee.

"And there's no way that Donald Trump can say, 'Okay, if you surrender now, all of you individuals who have massacred Iranian citizens, you're going to be just absolved of any type of accountability and responsibility,'" Brennan said. "So again, this is really messy. It's going to get worse in the days and weeks to come. I really feel for the Iranian people."

Does Trump imagine he’s now the Supreme Ruler of Iran by some kind of commutative principle? Or is he so stupid he doesn’t understand that Iran is a separate country with a separate government and population, and separate laws? And why would they “surrender” in the first place? So they can get 400 virgins in the paradise of America, their “afterlife” for surrendering to…whom? The missile launchers in other countries? American military personnel on bases in those countries?

The man’s brain is pudding. 

(Brennan assumes Trump is rational, to some degree. I don’t. I think he thinks the IRG will “surrender” and the Iranian people will act like Americans in 1776. The way Trump imagines they acted. Brennan assumes Trump means the surrender to come at the end of hostilities. Trump thinks that’s how he’ll end hostilities. And soon; he’s already bored.)