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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump delivers jaw-dropping and slurred Iran address that offers no end in sight to unpopular war

A weary President Donald Trump slurred his way through a disjointed national TV address Wednesday night in which he repeated the same justifications for his war with Iran that he’s been posting on social media throughout the month-long conflict.

The primetime speech, which pre-empted scheduled television programming on all broadcast networks at the request of the White House, had been billed as a major address in which Trump would finally lay out the justifications for the military action he started against Iran.

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