Donald Trumpâs mixed messages on Iran leave questions unanswered
More than a week into the US-Israel war on Iran, president has provided little clarity on how the conflict might end This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland; sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday One week into the war with Iran, the central questions about the conflict remained largely unanswered: what would constitute victory and how long the crisis might last. On Saturday, leaning against the bulkhead outside the press cabin as Air Force One cruised toward Florida, Donald Trump still struggled to clarify his own message. Trump has generally preferred the informal setting of an in-flight gaggle and so it felt at times that his meandering answers offered an unusually direct window into his uncertainty about what he wanted from Iran. As a Guardian White House correspondent, I was onboard to hear it as part of the press pool traveling with the president that day. Trump appeared at the front of the press cabin accompanied by his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and special envoy Steve Witkoff. And next to him, the two TV screens that had been playing Fox News until then had already swapped to the customary image of the presidential seal centered over an u
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