When Is Donald Trump’s Golden Age?

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As the United States lurches closer to a ground war in Iran, the country could not be further from the promised land.

Where is the “new golden era in America” that House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke of on Wednesday night at a fundraising dinner at Union Station in Washington, DC, where he bestowed an “America First” golden statue upon President Donald Trump? 

Gas prices are up. Jobs are down. New polls indicate that Americans are becoming increasingly restive with the Iran war, which has transmogrified from what Trump called an “incursion” into preparations for a ground campaign as early as this weekend.

On Truth Social, Trump indulged in his habitual bluster: “NATO NATIONS HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP WITH THE LUNATIC NATION, NOW MILITARILY DECIMATED, OF IRAN. THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO, BUT `NEVER FORGET’ THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME! President DONALD J. TRUMP” 

For a nation that is supposedly “decimated,” Iran sure seems to be doing a lot of damage. Several American military bases in the Gulf region are uninhabitable. Israel’s air defenses have been exposed as wanting. The Washington Post is reporting that the Pentagon will likely be........

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