Almost from the day Donald Trump entered the political arena, the legacy media have been committed to depicting him as a trigger-happy warmonger who’d rather shoot first and ask questions later.

They just did it again, offering another example of how the big, fat outlets remain the undisputed kings of misinformation.

Their default move is to make sure the facts never get in the way of a Democratic talking point.

If that means they have to occasionally sing in tune with America’s enemies, so be it.

Their deceptions have been front and center in the latest twist in the long-running dispute between Washington and the mad mullahs of Iran.

Sometimes it’s hard to find a major difference between how the American media and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei describe Trump.

To both, the president is always the problem.

If they had been right this time, we’d now be hearing Trump give the command for “bombs away” over Tehran.

Instead, there he was on the White House lawn Friday afternoon, pointedly thanking the mullahs for not following through on their vow to execute hundreds of political prisoners rounded up in the protests.

“Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people,” Trump said, adding that he “greatly respected” the move.

To those with an honest and open mind, the week’s roller coaster ride illustrated how Trump’s fondness for talking about America’s military might is often purposeful sword-rattling.

The bluster, this time and often, serves as an invitation to negotiations or is so persuasive that he gets most of what he wants without having to fire a shot.

As the week began, the scenes in Iran looked like a five-alarm fire.........

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