Not dissimilar to their ongoing shutdown fight over immigration enforcement, Democrats see the public on their side on this. Trump has bounced between any number of reasons to justify his strikes on Iran, while providing odd, at times contradictory, assessments on how close the United States is in achieving its goals in the military conflict. Trump has said in recent days that the mission in Iran is almost complete, but also that he won’t stop until he has Iran’s complete surrender, and that sending U.S. troops remains a possibility. He has said Iran must get a new leader whom Trump has blessed as acceptable, even as the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was replaced by his son, another hardliner. Trump has crowed about disarming Iran’s proxies in the region, grounding its Air Force, and sinking its Navy. “We’re up to boat number 60. I didn’t realize they had that big a Navy,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday.
