Iran rejects ceasefire as widely predicted.
— George Pearkes (@peark.es) March 25, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Forget TACO, we are approaching the NACHOOO Zone
Not
Able to
Cease
Hostilities
On
Our
Own
This is what is consistently missing from coverage of Trump’s blurts about the war, and especially market reaction. He controls very little.
The key to ending the war is reopening the Straight, and Iran has total control over when (and what) transit occurs there. The war ends when they say so.— Douglas Moser (@douglasmoser.bsky.social) March 25, 2026 at 12:33 PM
No problem, libs!
We are literally planning an actual war around what is essentially a Call of Duty highlight reel.
— Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast (@irhottakes.bsky.social) March 25, 2026 at 8:02 AM
… The daily montage typically runs for about two minutes, sometimes longer, the officials said. One described each daily video as a series of clips of “stuff blowing up.”
The highlight reel of U.S. Central Command bombing Iranian equipment and military sites isn’t the only briefing Trump gets about the war. He’s also updated through conversations with top military and intelligence advisers, foreign leaders and news reports, the officials said.
But the video briefing is fueling concerns among some of Trump’s allies that he may not be receiving — or absorbing — the complete picture of the war, now in its fourth week, two of the current officials and the former official said.
They said the videos are also driving Trump’s increasing frustration with news coverage of the war. Trump has pointed to the success depicted in the daily videos to privately question why his administration can’t better influence the public narrative, asking aides why the news media doesn’t emphasize what he’s seeing, one of the current U.S. officials and the former U.S. official said. ..
“We can’t tell him every single thing that happens,” a current U.S. official said. The official noted that Trump’s briefings tend to draw better feedback from his aides when they focus on U.S. victories.
Overall, the official said, the information Trump gets about the war tends to emphasize U.S. successes, with comparatively little detail about Iranian actions.
One example came this month when five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were hit in an Iranian strike at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to one of the current U.S. officials. Trump wasn’t briefed about the strikes, and he learned what had happened from media reports, the official said. When Trump inquired, he was told the planes weren’t badly damaged, the official said.
The official said Trump reacted angrily behind the scenes to the news coverage. Publicly he posted on Truth Social calling coverage of the strike misleading and accusing media organizations of wanting the U.S. “to lose the War.” …
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