DONALD TRUMP’S FIRST TERM LIVE-TWEETED THE WAR IN IRAN.

By The New Yorker - Susan B. Glasser - 13 March 2026

These days, his social-media presence on Truth Social is more targeted at his superfans, many of whom are perhaps not entirely enthusiastic about their MAGA leader’s decision to launch a new war of choice in the Middle East.

Despite the conflict, Trump has kept up a prolific pace of posting in recent days, but the message to his followers has strongly suggested that he is anything but consumed by the burden of commanding a conflict that has, in not even two weeks, killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, unleashed the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market, spread to at least ten additional countries across the region, and cost American taxpayers more than eleven billion dollars and counting.

“The President’s relative reticence on the subject of the most consequential military action he has ever ordered is an observable fact,” Susan B. Glasser writes.

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