Why Trump keeps flipping on Iran: A president who sees the world as he wants it to be

Why does love inflation?

Why does Donald Trump keep saying the war is about to end – and then tell a Fox reporter hes going to “bomb the s—- out of them”? 

Why does Donald Trump try to revive the controversial slush fund after saying its dead?

Why does he insist on putting an unqualified housing hack in charge of national intelligence despite an outcry from his own party?

Something strange is happening here–but what?

Is Trump “increasingly frustrated with everyone,” as Politico quotes a MAGA operative close to the ? “Hes pissed and people are not recognizing the level of pissed that he is.”

If there is connecting tissue here, its that Trump and his far-reaching agenda are .

He even got blamed for his presence causing the Knicks to lose Game 3 of the NBA Finals (while s T-shirt got credit for Wednesdays miracle comeback).

The opposition, led by the courts, has blocked much of what the president wants to do. His name is coming off the . His prized ballroom is tied up, as is his proposed 250-foot arch. 

were so upset with his temporary appointment of Bill Pulte, who launched mortgage fraud investigations of Trumps enemies, as director of national intelligence that they refused to renew an expiring domestic surveillance law. After digging in, the president bowed to political reality yesterday and nominated Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan.

Publicly, Trump dismissed the uproar as a “hoax” perpetrated by the Democrats and a few renegade Republicans. But he and his team were privately obsessed with the scandal, according to a new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. 

Trump refused to do what most advisers were urging him to do, which was to get ahead of the Epstein disclosures before Congress made the files public. He insisted his MAGA base was behind him, when in fact many of its members were angry over his past ties to the late pedophile and complaining of a coverup.  

Trump accused California of running a on Tuesday. But when late ballots boosted his candidate, former Fox host Steve Hilton, into one of two November slots, he took credit for it.

In fact, Trumps insistence, a half-dozen years later, that he actually won the 2020 election, despite never providing a shred of evidence in court, remains a classic example of him seeing the world as he wants it to be. The same goes for the that he is trying to recast as patriots. That was the impetus for the $1.8-billion “anti-weaponization” fund, to get money into their pockets, although we all watched on live television as many of them attacked police officers and threatened lawmakers. 

Now, why would the president make the politically clunky comment that “I love the inflation”? Especially when the annual rate just surged to 4.2 percent, the highest in three years? 

Trumps explanation: “Do you know weve been taking out millions of barrels of oil? Nobody knows it. You know who doesnt know about it? Iran — until right now.”

Yet this was no secret. The New York Times reported it last month.

The war offers the most vivid illustration of Trumps fierce tendency to see a foggy picture through blurry glasses. For more than two months, the president has declared again and again that he was close to making a , that they were desperate for an agreement, that he was giving the mullahs a few more days. And yet no deal emerged.

Instead, the administration and Tehran wound up trading bombing attacks in the wake of the downing of a U.S. helicopter, with the crew quite fortunately rescued. Yet Trump clung to the fiction of an .

In a call to “” yesterday, he took aim at one of his favorite targets.

The problem was “fake news,” he said. The media are “crooked,” he said. “The New York Times writes stories like theyre doing great, and theyre not,” he said of Iran. He included CNN and MSNOW in that indictment.

“The press just covers it so crazily.