Trump's inner circle showing 'buyer's remorse' over Iran war and fear president was 'high on his own supply,' report say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Monday 16 March 2026 12:26 EDT


Members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle are experiencing “buyer’s remorse” over the Iran conflict and are beginning to regard Operation Epic Fury as a disastrous mistake, according to a report.

The U.S. and Israel launched surprise joint airstrikes against Tehran in the early hours of Saturday, February 28, killing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Ayatollah Khamenei on the first day of the aerial bombardment, ending his 47-year authoritarian reign in one fell swoop.

Iran quickly hit back with retaliatory strikes of its own against its Gulf neighbor states hosting American and Israeli military assets. So far, 13 U.S. servicemembers have died. Meanwhile, Tehran’s moves to target tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world’s total oil supply is shipped, have caused global fuel prices to soar.

Now an administration source quoted by Axios has claimed that Trump was “high on his own supply” when he gave the greenlight for the joint operation to commence.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-iran-war-b2939542.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. They are so unqualified to deal with mental health crises

Malignant narcissism becomes more pronounced with age. Could result in oodles and boodles of plastic surgery. Or invincibility delusions. Or younger and younger companions, no matter the cost. Power is not studied as much because of fewer examples. Mix in Operation Epstein Files, and there you have a home brew.

[Jack Valentino]

25. Operation EPSTEIN FILES Fury !!!!

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. This administration leaks like a sieve

Would love to know who the source is…my guess is it’s someone not wearing a brand new pair of ill fitting Florsheims…

[Initech]

3. They completely fucked up big time. This wretched regime has gone completely mad with power.

All the sick fucks that made this happen need to be fired and imprisoned immediately.

[flashman13]

5. This wretched regime has gone completely mad with power. That sums it all up in nine words.

[Initech]

7. And that's the nicest thing I can say about these scumbags!

[Blues Heron]

4. Realistically how much longer can this last? The harm is being felt globally, how long are the ptb putting up with this

[mwmisses4289]

15. Until t is no longer useful, and they can't make any more money off of it.

[Blue_Roses]

18. Sadly, I believe

you are right. Trump will go scorched earth before he gives up.

[Quanto Magnus]

20. And given the Trump spawn

just got into military drones, you can bet this is going on longer.

[FakeNoose]

6. Ahem ... (cough, cough) ... 25th Amendment ... maybe it's time?

[Grim Chieftain]

13. Should have been invoked during his first term

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

29. Yeah...About that ...

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The 25th amendment can remove the president temporarily more easily, but impeachment and conviction may be the easier route to permanently remove the president than the 25th.

Temporary removal – only requires a vote of the VP and the majority of the cabinet. But is only lasts until the president writes to Congress saying he is fit. After that the VP/Cabinet have a maximum of 4 days to argue. If they don’t the president is reinstated. If they do it takes a 2/3rds majority of both houses to keep the president out of office.

This means in our current situation he would only be out a week at most.

Permanent removal is the same as above, but the VP/Cabinet claims he is unfit for office and Congress votes - 2/3rds majority of both houses - to permanently remove him.

Impeachment takes a simple majority of the House and conviction and permanent removal takes a 2/3rds majority of the Senate. This is easier by 1/6th of the House and not needing to involve the cabinet at all.

The 25th is a temporary fix at best and relies on the competence and courage (or self-interest) of his hand-picked lapdogs.

The impeachment/removal process is still our best bet for permanent removal – other than waiting until either the end of his term or the end of his life removes him first.

And so we wait.

[https://www.lwv.org/blog/know-how-impeachment-25th-amendment-work]

[ShazzieB]

8. Trump was "high on his own supply"?

[cab67]

9. Time for an intervention.

I doubt it would actually work, but a bunch of people in that inner circle need to sit him down and read him the riot act. Threaten to 25th him if he doesn’t do something.

[Blue_Roses]

19. He would just fire them

and hire more clueless minions

[Polybius]

22. Yup

The only one he can't fire is Vance.

[Wednesdays]

26. He can "fire" Vance

In the same way he tried to "fire" Mike Pence.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

30. Trump calls for Vance's impeachment ...

"Did you know he's married to a foreign couch! That's DEI and we can't have that. Impeach Him!!!"

[J_William_Ryan]

10. And joining the Trump regime was a disastrous mistake.

Consider the stupidity of believing the second Trump regime would be any different than the first.

[Grim Chieftain]

11. Why. Can't. He. Just. Die?

Think of all the good, decent people we have lost in recent months, and yet there he is, the most vile, toxic, wretched being ever to occupy the presidency.

God, I loathe him and his enablers.

[area51]

27. Why can't he just die?

Because he has govt. healthcare we peasants could only dream of.

[C_U_L8R]

12. Buyer's remorse?

It’s more like a dumbass’s doubletake.
Trump and his clueless team are creating a failure of historical proportion.

[diane in sf]

14. High on sniffing his own farts.

[BattleRow]

23. Methinks methane...it IS poisonous,btw

Cattle were blamed for the vast amount of methane emissions they produce.

Well...how's about all the toxic emissions emanating from ALL the b.s. from the oral orifice?

[pat_k]

16. He's been high on his own supply since he came down the escalator.

He lives in a fantasy world created by his malignant narcissism and cruel psychopathy. He doesn't just believe his own hype. He is so immersed in his own delusions of brilliance and power he lost all contact with reality years ago.

The true insanity is the number of people who joined him in his deluded bubble.

As more of them crash into the wall of reality, there will be more and more "leaks" about his volatility and opposition in the ranks.

[liberalla]

17. His own supply? of WHAT ???

Idiocy? Lunacy? Stupidity?

Those are all his strengths... They liked that when they weren't being harmed. They liked the "make-believe" picture he painted because it appealed to people who shared his prejudices and who bought the rest of his foolishness...



And now? Everyone is still too chickenshit to step up and tell him some truth.
Get used to those feelings of buyer's remorse!

[truthisfreedom]

21. Farts!

Just farts.

[Aussie105]

24. Trump has very carefully selected those that surround him for their best 'qualities'.

Those being:

1. Less competent than Trump at running a country.

2. Capable of loud bluff and bluster that signify nothing.

3. Unable and unwilling to tell Trump he is mentally defective and doing it wrong.

Result?
Well, we are watching it in action now.

Let's face it, America is a world superpower in decline.

Only two things can rescue America.
1. Celebrating the day of his death and declaring that a public holiday to be repeated every year.
2. Removing anyone tainted by the smell of the Orange Menace from any position of power.

[Figarosmom]

28. Man trump is stupid

And so is his war god. When we got hit on 9/11 we didn't even lose our leaders and we retaliated in a war that lasted for decades when you count Afghanistan. Did he actually think they would do less?

[returnee]

31. The inner circle...

…can initiate the 25th amendment or they can co f**k themselves.

[Javaman]

32. it would be one thing for them to say this if this was his first year in his first term

they know full what what they have and they can fuck all they way off.

[Martin68]

33. Trump's "inner circle" are just rubber-stamping "yes-men." they hitched their wagons to the president, and they will

suffer the consequences.