As the war with Iran enters its fifth week, Donald Trump’s plan is starting to look a whole lot less like a limited military operation and a full-blown Middle East war. You know, the kind he explicitly campaigned against in 2024.
Trump has spent weeks assuring the American public, and an increasingly restless MAGA base already sour on the war, that U.S. boots would stay off Iranian soil. “I’m not putting troops anywhere,” he told reporters on March 20.
