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A habit Donald Trump has picked up during his second term in the Oval Office will hinder his administration's war in Iran, a political analyst claimed. The United States joined Israel in striking Iran earlier this month, and with constantly changing reasons for attacking the Middle Eastern country, the president is coming across as unfocused, according to Simon Tisdall. The political analyst, writing in The Guardian, suggested that Trump's lack of focus and inability to understand the weight of the war at hand will affect how he can end the war. He wrote, "Ignoring facts on the ground, the White House continues to spew lies and bombast. Trump is plainly in denial, claiming regime change has already been achieved via assassination. He has this strange habit of behaving like a spectator, detached from the chaotic events he himself sets in motion. "He acts as if the global energy shock, the US’s abject failure to defend the Hormuz Strait and its Gulf allies, Iran’s unyielding defiance under fire, and the absence of the predicted popular uprising in Tehran have nothing to do with him. He doesn’t understand Iran is fighting an asymmetric war, that even the biggest bombs cannot obliterate pride and ideology, faith and history."Part of the problem, Tisdall argues, is who Trump is now surrounded by in the White House. Few allies remain for the president abroad, with the political analyst suggesting the president has been played by Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. "Trump is increasingly isolated and out on a limb," Tisdall wrote. "His wealthy Arab business cronies no longer trust him. US bases on their territory now resemble a liability, not a defence. When he demanded Nato’s help, Europe said: we’ll let you know. "Likewise, Iran’s ethnic Kurds are less than keen to die for a muppet. Support for the war among the US public and the MAGA right, always weak, is a fast-vanishing mirage. Having egged him on, Netanyahu refuses to bail him out – or to stop bombing everyone in sight. "Silly-billy Trump! He believed Israel’s assurance of quick victory. As for Iran, its surviving leadership, dominated by ultras, reckons it’s winning. Its hard line gets harder by the day."

President Donald Trump is facing mockery after floating the idea of renaming the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, after himself – or the United States. At an investor forum in Miami Friday night, Trump referred to the waterway as the “Strait of Trump” before correcting himself and insisting the remark was intentional.“Excuse me, I’m so sorry. Such a terrible mistake,” Trump said to the crowd. “The Fake News will say, ‘He accidentally said.’ No, there’s no accidents with me.”The Daily Beast reported Friday that Trump has also privately discussed rebranding the vital global oil corridor as the “Strait of America” if the United States were to help wrest control of it from Iran.The waterway has become a major flashpoint in the MAGA administration’s escalating conflict with Tehran, which has disrupted shipping and helped send oil and gas prices higher. One administration official told the New York Post that the U.S. is “taking the Strait back” and questioned why it should still be called Hormuz if Washington ends up policing it. But even some Trump allies appear uneasy with the idea. A former administration official told the Post that Trump’s self-promotion while in the White House is “getting tiresome and tacky,” and risks “tarnishing his legacy.” .@POTUS: "We're negotiating now, and it would be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up. They have to open up the Strait of Trump—I mean Hormuz. Excuse me, I'm so sorry. Such a terrible mistake." ???? pic.twitter.com/TqZptrkEo0— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 27, 2026

Donald Trump could be facing a total collapse of his administration should he make one wrong move, an expert has warned. Describing the president as a "bad gambler," defense expert Chris Hughes suggested Trump could be taken down a worrying path during the war with Iran. Writing in The Mirror, Hughes outlined a scenario in which the US would not win against Iran, and that this may be a path Trump wishes to pursue. Trump could be "tempted into a ground war against hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million, of Iranian IRGC and Artesh regular forces that cannot be won," according to Hughes, who warned there would be no victory with a boots on the ground display from the US in Iran. "It does not take 17,000 ground troops to win against those odds and it is likely Trump has already been told this," Hughes wrote. "Even with defections and airstrikes a ground invasion of Iran would be a long-term and bloody nightmare. "The same goes for the taking of Kharg Island and perhaps a special forces raid on Iran’s nuclear sites to seize its enriched uranium. This will be Trump’s undoing, and the same goes for anyone else who goes along with it."Part of the problem regarding Trump's potential decision, Hughes warns, is in underestimating Iran's forces. He wrote, "The deathly irony remains that whilst it would prefer not to have been attacked in the first place, the latter is exactly what Iran too wants - it is a great big trap. "As we have said repeatedly the Iranian regime has always known it cannot take on America head-on - but it can draw it into a humiliating guerilla war that will cost huge numbers of lives."And it can try and out-cost the US, forcing it to spend even more than the billions it has already cost, whilst also costing the Gulf States billions in Patriot missiles. And this is by using £30,000 drones against multi-million pound Patriot defence missiles to bankrupt Trump’s war machine into a retreat."He has constantly bragged Iran has no navy or air force. The same could have been said for the Viet Cong and the Taliban and look where that got the States and other militaries that sacrificed troops, such as the UK, helping its war against terror."

Blackwater founder Erik Prince revealed that he warned President Donald Trump against going to war in Iran.At the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Texas on Friday, Prince had a sobering message about Operation Epic Fury."I counseled as loud as possible against doing this in the first place," he explained. "We face an extremely difficult challenge. The Iranians learned their lesson from what happened to Iraq. Decapitation of the leadership structure of the Iraqi army. The Iranians have done the exact same thing. There's 31 different military districts. All clear direction given to those 31 commanders is to continue to wage war against whoever they can with whatever they can.""The only person that can countermand that order is the supreme leader," he continued. "And we've killed the supreme leader now, his father, his wife, his sister, other family members in an ancient society — in an ancient society that understands blood oath.""I don't share the optimism of the administration that there's going to be a peaceful stop to this."Prince noted that Iran would "burn it down" if the U.S. tried to deploy troops in the country."If they try to put boots on the ground, force the Strait of Hormuz, you will see imagery of burning American warships in the next couple of weeks," he advised. "And I don't think people are really prepared for that.""So I would, look, Iran doesn't have an independence day because they've not really been conquered since Alexander the Great," Prince added. "For all the talk of regime change, there's never been a real preparation of an armed opposition inside the country. And a lot of ways to do that from the periphery that doesn't require U.S. boots."

The Justice Department (DOJ) confirmed Friday that the personal email of FBI Director Kash Patel was compromised by an Iran-linked hacking group, sparking an uproar from critics who noted the irony in a top national security official not securing their own personal email account.“The FBI boss who’s supposed to protect America couldn’t even lock down his own inbox from foreign spies,” wrote liberal influencer Ed Krassenstein Friday in a social media post on X to his more than 1 million followers. “How does this scream ‘strong on national security?’”The group that claimed responsibility for the security breach is Handala Hack, which is affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, per the DOJ. Earlier this month, the DOJ issued a $10 million reward for information on any of its members.In a defiant statement published on Friday, Handala Hack said that the $10 million reward was what motivated them to release Patel’s personal files and photos. The group mocked the FBI for how “easily” its security was breached.“The so-called ‘impenetrable’ systems of the FBI were brought to their knees within hours by our team,” reads a statement from the hacking group. “All personal and confidential information of Kash Patel, including emails, conversations, documents, and even classified files, is now available for public download. This is the security that the U.S. government boasts about?! If your director can be compromised this easily, what do you expect from your lower-level employees?”Krassenstein was not alone in mocking Patel for his alleged incompetence. Journalist Max Blumenthal took aim at Patel specifically over a select-few photos released by the hacking group that appeared to show the FBI director on a trip to Cuba, which the Trump administration is currently starving of resources with crippling sanctions that have shuttered hospitals and made food scarce.“While US federal agents harass Americans for bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba, seizing their phones and subjecting them to interrogations at airports, photos surface of FBI Director Kash Patel on a trip to Havana enjoying cigars, rum and local culture,” Blumenthal wrote Friday in a social media post on X to their more than 840,000 followers.BREAKING: Iran-linked hackers from the Handala group (tied to Iran’s MOIS) just released personal photos of FBI Director Kash Patel, including him smoking cigars, plus an old resume stolen from his private Gmail account. The FBI boss who’s supposed to protect America couldn’t… pic.twitter.com/31xf7At7dC— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) March 27, 2026