Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain

SuperTrump had two super weeks from June 22, 2025 to July 4. First, he sent B-2 Sprint bombers 7,000 miles non-stop to hit their targets without losing one American life. Then, emboldened by his success as Commander-in-Chief, he convinced NATO partners to submit to his 5% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) defense spending demands as the “daddy” of the transAtlantic alliance. And finally, at home, SuperTrump arm twisted Republican members of Congress to vote a suicidal Big Beautiful Bill (BBB). SuperTrump is flying high, all powerful and omnipresent; his power growing in leaps and bounds. Where is the kryptonite to stop him?

SuperTrump’s Iran mission made Americans forget past foreign failures. Remember the 1980 Operation Eagle Claw under President Jimmy Carter when the U.S. military was humiliated in the desert sand trying to rescue the captured American hostages and eight U.S. soldiers died? Or the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu under President Clinton when 18 U.S. soldiers lost their lives in Somalia? What about 2013 when President Barack Obama said that if Saddam Hussein crossed a red line by using chemical weapons there would be consequences? And Saddam did, with no Obama reaction.

All three failures engraved in America’s memory. The failures of three Democratic leaders are part of a post-Vietnam image of declining United States power.

SuperTrump changes that image. With no hesitation, he sends B-2 bunker busters to “obliterate” Iran’s nuclear........

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