As he continues to issue threats against Iran and suggests he will destroy the country if they fail to do as he tells them to, Donald Trump has been having delusions that he deserves the highest military honor any U.S. soldier can receive.
During planning sessions for the Iran war, Trump told top aides that he might nominate himself for the Medal of Honor because he’d done such a great job as commander-in-chief, the Wall Street Journal reports.
After a U.S. jet was shot down over Iran, the Journal notes, Trump was furious with top aides who had planned the mission and seemed flustered by how the war was going.
“Trump screamed at aides for hours. The Europeans aren’t helping, he said repeatedly. Gas prices averaged $4.09. Images of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis – one of the biggest international policy failures of a presidency in recent times – had been looming large in his mind, people who have spoken to him said.”
The so-called president was so unnerved that he had to be kept out of the room when officials were discussing plans for locating and rescuing two American servicemembers who had been shot down over enemy territory.
“Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, instead updating him at meaningful moments, a senior administration official said.”
Trump reportedly lost focus as discussions took place about the Iran operations, bringing up irrelevant issues such as his beloved White House ballroom and giving himself the Medal of Honor.
“He has made risky pronouncements without input from his national security team – including his post about plans to destroy the Iranian civilization – saying seeming unstable could help spur the Iranians to negotiate,” the Journal notes.
“At one point, he even mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor.”
All of this reinforces what many of us have long known: Donald Trump is too emotional, egotistical, and unhinged to be leading our armed forces. The guy belongs in a rubber room, not the Situation Room.
