Trump Can’t TACO His Way Out Of The Iran War

The president has wriggled his way out of every political jam he's found himself in over the past 10 years, but this time it really may be different.

President Donald Trump has survived political scandals, crises and low approval ratings the likes of which no previous president could withstand. So it may be hard to believe that ol’ Donny Trump won’t, yet again, wriggle his way out of another disastrous drop in his political standing.

But this time it really may be different.

Trump’s Iran war has, even more than anything before, sent his approval rating in a nosedive. Poll aggregators now put him below 40% approval for the first time in his second term as multiple polls have shown his approval in the low-to mid-30s. His net approval is at -21.4, according to FiftyPlusOne.

“When compared to past presidents, Trump’s ratings are the lowest of any president at this point in their term, going back to FDR,” pollster G. Elliott Morris wrote at his Strength In Numbers site on Friday.

Trump’s ability to change his position when things get rough has earned him the nickname TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out).

But his shambolic address to the nation on Wednesday demonstrated that he can’t TACO his way out of this one: Amid unconvincing boasts that the US is “winning bigger than ever before,” Trump offered no clear rationale for the war and no plan or strategy to end it or resolve the vast economic disruption created by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. It didn’t work. The stock market dropped and the price of oil spiked as soon as he finished speaking.

The speech showed that Trump is stuck. He is constitutionally incapable of accepting that he made a........

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