🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 The Wall Street Journal just dropped a bombshell report on the inside story of the Iran war...
The key revelations:
Trump used to call the Middle East "blood and sand" and wanted nothing to do with it.
Then Netanyahu gave him a "persuasive February briefing" in the Situation Room, backed by repeated calls from Lindsey Graham, and Trump changed his mind.
He thought it would be as easy as Venezuela.
Trump was "in awe" of the scale of the bombs, watching clips of explosions every morning.
But he did "little to sell the American public on the war" and grew frustrated when he didn't get praised for it.
His own team showed him midterm polling that proved the war was dragging down Republican candidates.
He "quickly began ruminating on how the military action could turn into a catastrophe."
On the Strait: Trump told his team before the war that Iran would "likely capitulate before closing the strait."
His advisers were "caught off guard" that tanker traffic stopped so quickly.
Trump later "marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed," saying "a guy with a drone can shut it down."
By late March, before the F-15 was even shot down, Trump ordered his team to find a way to start talks.
The war was already over in his mind weeks before the ceasefire.
His aides begged him to stop doing impromptu interviews because he was contradicting himself publicly.
He agreed to stop, then went right back to calling reporters.
The April 1 address to the nation was Susie Wiles' idea to "reassure the country Trump had a plan."