The President Who Promised Peace — And Was Sold a War
How Donald Trump, History's Most Vocal Anti-Interventionist, Was Guided Step by Step into the Middle East's Most Dangerous Conflict in Decades "We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn't be involved with." — Donald Trump, campaign rally, North Carolina, 2016 "I got him before he got me." — Donald Trump, on the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader, March 2026 Between those two sentences lies one of the most extraordinary — and troubling — reversals in modern American political history. To understand how it happened, you have to start not at the beginning of Trump's second term, but at the very beginning of his political identity. Because before Donald Trump was a wartime president, he spent more than a decade being the loudest anti-war voice in American public life. The Man Who Called It Stupid For years before he ever set foot in the Oval Office, Donald Trump built his political brand on a foundation...