Trump Is Finally Admitting His War Against Iran Is Not Over And He Has Not Won It

President Trump said Monday that the war he launched against Iran in February is still ongoing, telling reporters 'we're going to win that war very soon' — a reversal from dozens of prior claims that the conflict was effectively finished. The same message repeated a day earlier in a Fox News interview from a golf outing outside Chicago.

The admission follows months of statements insisting victory had already been secured, including a March rally claim that the war was won 'in the first hour,' and a June pledge to declare 'total victory' within two weeks. The White House did not respond to questions about why the administration's account of who won has now changed.

Democratic officials tied the shift to rising gas and grocery prices as the war drags into its eighth month, with Trump himself linking an end to the war to falling gas prices and 'eradicated' inflation. Trump has also continued to claim the strike was necessary to stop an Iranian nuclear weapon, without noting that the uranium in question was enriched after his own 2018 withdrawal from the nuclear deal Iran had been observing.

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