A tired and frail Donald Trump took to the podium to address the nation over his ill-conceived war against Iran since his poll numbers have cratered to historic lows.
The networks dutifully agreed to give him prime time air when his speech was nothing more than an elongated Truth Social post.
Speaking in a monotone and robotic voice for roughly twenty minutes, Trump's dreary cadence was off-putting, uninspiring, and worst of all, boring.
He claimed the war he created after he ordered our far superior military forces to sneak attack Iran was equivalent to the massive struggle of World War II.
Trump bragged the country was dead before he took office, which is his favorite narcissistic fantasy.
Since he took office, the country has suffered from his illegal tariffs, roving bands of masked ICE agents, horrific job creation, and skyrocketing inflation, but his delusion was so vast he proclaimed America under his leadership was a Utopian dream just 33 days ago.
TRUMP: The United States has never been better prepared economically to confront this threat. You all know that.
We built the strongest economy in history. We're going through it right now, the strongest in history.
In one year, we've taken a dead and crippled country — I hate to say that, but we were a dead and crippled country after the last administration — and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world, by far, with no inflation, record-setting investments coming into the United States, over $18 trillion, and the highest stock market ever, with 53 all-time record highs in just one year.
Trump's attack on Iran, without a plan to deal with the Hormuz Strait, has put the global markets of oil in jeopardy causing massive spikes in energy.
Tonight Trump claimed the US doesn't need the Hormuz Strait.
TRUMP: Remember, because of our Drill a Baby drill program, America has plenty of gas.
We have so much gas. Under my leadership, we are number one producer of oil and gas on the planet, without even discussing the millions of barrels that we're getting from Venezuela.
Because of the Trump administration's policies, we produce more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Think of that — Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.
And that number will soon be substantially higher than that. There's no country like us anywhere in the world, and we're in great shape for the future. The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won't be taking any in the future.
We don't need it.
We haven't needed it, and we don't need it.
If I'm a daily commuter that have been suffering under his economy and now are faced with crippling gas bills, I'd be furious.
If we have so much oil, why has gas prices skyrocketed?
He gave the nation nothing new and instead regurgitated his same lies. It was a wasted time for the networks to air this nonsense.
It was April Fool's day and the joke definitely was on us.
