Try to imagine what it's like to be president of the United States of America, giving our country's military commanders the authorization to launch a war against another country very early on a Saturday morning.

I picture a scene of intense focus as the orders are issued and bombs start to fall far away, and then as retaliatory strikes begin to target Americans in the region. There's probably not a second for a president to spend thinking about other issues, right?

Not if you're Donald Trump.

Trump, who won a second term on a promise of ending foreign wars and then promptly started a new war with Iran on Feb. 28, swiftly showed his worldview is always preoccupied with one particular kind of fake victimhood.

Trump announced the war in a social media post at 2:44 a.m. on Feb. 28. Then, less than two hours into the attack, the president posted again, not with an update about the ongoing hostilities, but with a 4:35 a.m. complaint about the presidential elections in 2020 and 2024.

"Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States," he posted, linking to a right-wing website story about those elections.

Sure, Trump always tries to weave into any discussion his long-debunked claims that Democrats are always trying to rig elections to cheat him out of victory, despite winning two of his three presidential........

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