Trump administration officials are scrambling to find “positive” media coverage of President Donald Trump regarding his decision to accept a tentative ceasefire agreement with Iran, with one senior official fearing the president’s hatred of “being humiliated” may lead him to reignite the conflict and spark an “Iran-war apocalypse,” Zeteo reported on Wednesday.
“A problem is Donald Trump hates being humiliated,” a senior Trump administration official told Zeteo, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “He is going to see coverage that he was beat by the Iranians. I am expecting that to change his thinking.”
The senior official said that they and other aides were working to “get a bunch of ‘positive’ media coverage” of Trump “to soothe his ego,” Zeteo reported. The official added that they also planned to engage MAGA influencers and other right-wing media figures to help shape favorable coverage of Trump’s decision to halt plans to destroy Iran’s entire civilization.
Portraying Trump’s agreement to a ceasefire as a victory, however, will be “hard to support,” Zeteo argued, given that the conflict has sent prices soaring across the globe, resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members, and failed to topple Iran’s government – a frequently but inconsistently cited objective of the war.
“The attack on Iran was based on lies, it was completely unnecessary, and no one wanted it – other than Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who reportedly sold the U.S. president on a rosy and deeply misguided vision of how the war would play out, per a deep dive from the New York Times on Tuesday,” Zeteo’s report reads. “Netanyahu got to brief Trump in the White House Situation Room, and Trump opted not to sit at the head of the table as he did so.”