Eyeing an end to the war, Trump tries pretending his Iran goals weren’t worth pursuing

On Feb. 28, when Donald Trump announced the start of the war against Iran in a prerecorded video filmed at his glorified country club in Florida, the president presented the public with five objectives, including creating the conditions necessary for regime change in Tehran. This was the opposite of what his own team had told Americans, but the president said it anyway.

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In the days and weeks that followed, Trump repeatedly insisted that he had successfully secured “regime change” in Iran despite the fact that the country, which has been led for decades by religious clerics and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, was still led by religious clerics and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

This week, however, two days after announcing a purported framework to end the war, the Republican told reporters during the G7 summit, “You talk about ‘regime change.’ I never cared about regime change. It was never a part.”

It was like listening to the guys I knew in high school who asked out girls, got shot down and said, “I really didn’t want to date her anyway.” It is classically what is known as “sour grapes.”

And these grapes were not the only example of the problem to emerge Tuesday. MS NOW reported as part of the its liveblog coverage: