Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago during an Operation Epic Fury briefing
National security experts were concerned that President Donald Trump was ignoring important briefings and preferring to watch videos of explosions from the war with Iran — 2-minute summaries, put together to capture the president’s “short attention span.”
In the past, US presidents sought to gather information in daily security briefings. Donald Trumphowever, does not follow this method. The current US head of state began to see the war, which killed 13 US soldiers and almost 1,500 Iranians, as entertainment.
According to , as the war progresses, Trump has entertained himself by watching videos of explosions compilations with the main moments of death and destruction in the Iran War.
This obsession is having an impact on how Trump views the war and what follows. “THE Trump’s dependence on these videos risks creating an effect of echo chamber, in which he is not getting the best advice,” says Salon.
According to White House officials cited by , daily assembly usually lasts about two minutes. One of the sources described each video diary as a series of “things exploding” clipsdesigned to capture your attention, “given its well-known reduced ability to concentrate”.
A White House guarantees that the president receives advice throughout the day from military leadership, intelligence agencies, diplomats and foreign leaders. And you also watch the news. But this does not appear to be reflected in the planning and conduct of the war, nor in its long-term strategic implications for US power and global stability.
These mounts increased “growing frustration” of the president in the form how the media covers warand biased their perception.
Trump points to the success portrayed in the videos to privately question why his administration cannot influence improve the public narrative, asking advisors why the media don’t give emphasis on what he is seeingsaid sources interviewed by NBC News.
In general, said a current White House official, the information Trump receives about the war tends to highlight the successes of the United Stateswith comparatively few details about Iran’s actions.
One example came this month, when five US Air Force refueling planes were hit in an Iranian attack to Prince Sultan Air Base, in Saudi Arabia.
Trump was not informed about the attacks and found out what had happened through news in the mediasaid the officer. When the president asked for clarification, he was informed that the planes had not suffered serious damage.
According to this source, Trump reacted angrily, away from the camerasto news coverage. In public, he published a message on Truth Social in which he classified the coverage of the attack as misleading and accused the media of wanting the United States to “lose the war”.
The White House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, rejected the idea that Trump does not receive information about all aspects of the warboth successes and failures, and defended Trump’s criticism of the media.
“This is a absolutely false statement coming from someone who was not present at the meeting,” Leavitt said in a statement. “Anyone who has participated in conversations with President Trump knows that he actively seeks and solicits the input of everyone present and expect total honesty of all his main advisors.”
“A trust in traditional media is at an all-time low and its overwhelmingly negative and biased coverage of Operation Epic Fury, which has been a huge success, proves why the President is legitimately frustrated,” Leavitt said in a statement.
“The media spend more time turning to false anonymous sources to sow chaos than to focus on the successes and victories of our great United States Military against the Iranian regime,” Leavitt added.
Said one day Abraham Lincolninspired by Jacques Abbadie, that it is possible to deceive everyone some of the time, or deceive some all of the time — but that You can’t fool everyone, all the time. And time will tell who is trying to do this: whether Donald Trump, whether the “traditional media”.
