The US president posted on Truth Social this Monday a message as denialist as it is fragile. “Israel never talked me into the war with Iran. The results of Oct. 7th, added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, did”, he wrote. While reading the press “in total disbelief”.

But there is a small problem with his version. Just two weeks ago, the New York Times revealed the exact details of the February 11 meeting in the Situation Room, where Netanyahu arrived with a prepared presentation and gave the president a “hard sell”. He even showed him a video montage with potential post-regime Iranian leaders.

Trump’s response back then was literally: “Sounds good to me”. The next day, CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the regime change plan “farcical”, Secretary of State Marco Rubio summed it up as “bullshit”, and General Dan Caine warned it was “standard operating procedure for the Israelis”.

Seven weeks of war later, the results speak for themselves. Iran retains more than 60% of its missile launchers, 40% of its drones, partially controls the Strait of Hormuz, and the regime remains standing with Mojtaba Khamenei in charge. Exactly what his own advisers had warned.