Trump's bored of peace
Heather Delaney Reese
Mar 02 2026
At 7:15 this evening, the President of the United States gripped the handrails as he stepped off Marine One and onto the South Lawn of the White House. His body moved slowly across the lawn, his legs stiff and wide, planting each step deliberately, like a man bracing against his own weight. He kept his head down, sucking in air between pursed lips. He looked bewildered and expressionless as he paused for the waiting press pool to capture photos. And as he approached, they shouted questions about Iran. About the war. And most importantly, about the three American service members who were killed. A male reporter asked directly, “Mr. President, what’s your message to the families of the fallen?” He didn’t answer a single question, not even one as serious as that. He just kept walking. Because he didn’t have even a moment more to talk about our fallen heroes. He had shiny new statues to see.
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But holding that truth does not require us to ignore what’s unfolding around it. Because so far, this looks like most things Trump does: impulsive, chaotic, and executed without any real understanding of what comes after. I don’t believe that a man with zero experience in war, who has never served, who has never sent his own children to serve, who spent the weekend at his resort instead of in the situation room, took into consideration the complete destabilization of a massive part of the world that his actions would cause. Or maybe he did, and he just doesn’t care. Either answer is terrifying.
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The answer isn’t pretty. He doesn’t have a plan to start or stop. He’s impulsive. He likes the rush. And he saw an opportunity with both Venezuela and Iran that most leaders would never have taken, not because the regimes didn’t deserve to fall, but because he knew he could get away with it precisely because they were evil. He figured he could test it out on both of them with little resistance. And for the most part, it worked. Because most of us do want those regimes gone. We want the people living under them to have better lives. And that makes it incredibly hard to push back, even when you can see that his intentions were never about liberation. They were about testing how far he could go. He threw test balloons at two countries with brutal governments and waited to see if anyone would stop him. Nobody did.
And with that comes a truth we have to sit with: what he did in both Venezuela and Iran was unconstitutional. He never asked Congress for authorization. He never presented a plan for what comes after. He got away with it because the targets were easy to justify, and now both countries face deeply destabilized and dangerous futures because of how he did it, not what he did. Venezuela still has the same regime in place minus one man. Iran has a shattered chain of command and 90 million people who were told to “figure it out.” There is no framework for stability or reconstruction. There is no plan. There never was.
And when he gets bored with Iran, and he will, he’ll move to Cuba. He’s already told us. Another government that’s hard to defend. Another regime most of the world agrees shouldn’t be there. And once he gets away with that, he’s already setting the stage for Greenland, an allied territory, a constitutional part of Denmark. Each target gets a little harder to justify. Each one pushes the line a little further. And nobody is pulling him back.
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