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He says he’s winning in Iran. He’s losing bigly.

Trump's Magical Thinking

EL CENTRAL by EL CENTRAL
April 7, 2026
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Mr. Trump, may I have a word?

Bad enough for you to insist — in the face of all evidence to the contrary — that you won the 2020 election.

But it’s another thing for you to pretend — in the face of mounting deaths and injuries, ballooning expenses, and rising prices — that you won, or are winning, the war with Iran you began on February 28.

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“Let me say, we’ve won,” you told a rally in Kentucky on March 11.

“I think we’ve won,” you said on the White House South Lawn on March 20.

“We’ve won this war. The war has been won,” you said in the Oval Office on March 24.

“We are winning so big,” you told a fundraising dinner on March 25.

“We’ve had regime change,” you told reporters last weekend. “The one regime was decimated, destroyed, they’re all dead. The next regime is mostly dead.” Iran has now moved onto its “third regime,” and American negotiators are now speaking to “a whole different group of people” who have “been very reasonable,” you said.

You’re making all this up. In fact, you’re losing your war. And so is America and much of the rest of the world.

After a month, your war has already cost 13 American lives, cost American taxpayers at least $30 billion, cost American consumers at least a dollar more per gallon of gas than they paid a month ago, pushed up food prices and mortgage rates, and pushed down the value of 401(k) retirement plans. It’s mangled supply chains for industries that rely on items such as fertilizer to grow food or helium to make computer chips. It’s also wreaked havoc across the Middle East with at least 1,574 civilians killed in Iran, including 236 children, and at least 50 killed in Iran’s attacks on other Gulf nations.

You assumed Iran would give up its nuclear program. Wrong. After more than a month of bombing by the United States and Israel, you’ve most likely stiffened the regime’s resolve to produce a nuclear weapon.

In this respect, too, America is worse off — more endangered than we were in 2018 before you withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama. In that deal, Iran agreed to restrict its nuclear program — reducing uranium stockpiles by 98 percent and capping enrichment at 3.67 percent and allowing inspections — in exchange for relief from UN, EU, and U.S. nuclear-related sanctions.

Iran now holds a stockpile of approximately 970 pounds of uranium enriched up to 60 percent purity, according to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. That’s close to weapons-grade. No one knows where it’s stored.

You thought winning this war would be as easy as abducting Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela and setting up a puppet regime there. Wrong again. The old ayatollah is gone, but the new one and his regime are even more radical and hard line.

You assumed America’s military might would weaken Iran’s military capacity. Wrong. They’ve embraced asymmetric warfare — using cheap drones and missiles and blocking the Strait of Hormuz — rather than take on America’s and Israel’s superior forces directly.

You thought the regime would soon cave. Wrong. It’s been over a month and they’re the ones playing the waiting game. They think they can withstand the mounting political and economic pressures better and longer than you and America can. They may be correct.

Reportedly, you’ve told aides you’re now willing to end the war even if Iran continues to block the Strait of Hormuz. Maybe this is your best option at this point. But it will allow Iran to decide in the future how much oil gets through and for whom and could cause the economic damage to the U.S. to grow exponentially worse.

Mr. Trump, do you really believe you won this war? Do you really believe America is better off than it was when you began the war?

Maybe the people around you are telling you that you’ve won the war and we’re better off because you punish the bearers of bad news and reward those who tell you what you want to hear. Presumably you’re hearing the same fictionalized good news from Republicans in Congress, from sycophantic leaders abroad, from other assorted lackeys and suck-ups.

Or maybe you think that if you can convince enough people that you won and we’re better off, you will have won and America will be better off. Because for you it’s always about public perceptions of reality rather than reality itself. Everything depends on hype, spin, exaggeration, and outright lies. For you there’s no truth, only belief.

Or maybe you think that if you keep saying you won or are winning, and America has come out on top, your magical thinking will in fact come true.

But this isn’t a game, and you’re not a magician. This is real blood and guts. Real pain. Real deaths and injuries. Real price increases at the gas pump. Real hardships for real people — in America, in the Middle East, and elsewhere.

You can’t pretend, sir. This isn’t reality television. This is for real. And the reality is Americans are worse off now and less secure than we were when you started this.

El pensamiento mágico de Trump

Dice que está ganando en Irán. Está perdiendo estrepitosamente.

Sr. Trump, ¿puedo decirle unas palabras?

Ya es bastante grave que usted insista —frente a toda evidencia en contrario— en que ganó las elecciones de 2020.

Pero es otra cosa muy distinta que usted pretenda —frente al creciente número de muertes y heridos, los gastos desorbitados y el alza de los precios— que ganó, o que está ganando, la guerra con Irán que usted inició el 28 de febrero.

«Permítanme decirles: hemos ganado», dijo usted en un mitin en Kentucky el 11 de marzo.

«Creo que hemos ganado», afirmó en el Jardín Sur de la Casa Blanca el 20 de marzo.

«Hemos ganado esta guerra. La guerra ha sido ganada», declaró en el Despacho Oval el 24 de marzo.

«Estamos ganando por una gran diferencia», comentó en una cena de recaudación de fondos el 25 de marzo.

«Hemos tenido un cambio de régimen», dijo a los periodistas el fin de semana pasado. «Un régimen fue diezmado, destruido; todos sus miembros están muertos. El siguiente régimen está, en su mayor parte, muerto». Irán ha pasado ahora a su «tercer régimen», y los negociadores estadounidenses están hablando ahora con «un grupo de personas totalmente diferente» que se ha mostrado «muy razonable», afirmó usted.

Todo esto se lo está inventando. De hecho, usted está perdiendo su guerra. Y con usted, la está perdiendo Estados Unidos y gran parte del resto del mundo.

Tras un mes, su guerra ya se ha cobrado 13 vidas estadounidenses; ha costado a los contribuyentes de EE. UU. al menos 30.000 millones de dólares; ha supuesto para los consumidores estadounidenses un aumento de al menos un dólar por galón de gasolina respecto a lo que pagaban hace un mes; ha disparado los precios de los alimentos y las tasas hipotecarias; y ha devaluado el valor de los planes de jubilación 401(k). Ha destrozado las cadenas de suministro de industrias que dependen de productos como los fertilizantes para el cultivo de alimentos o el helio para la fabricación de chips informáticos. También ha sembrado el caos en todo Oriente Medio, con al menos 1.574 civiles muertos en Irán —incluidos 236 niños— y al menos 50 fallecidos en los ataques perpetrados por Irán contra otras naciones del Golfo.

Usted asumió que Irán renunciaría a su programa nuclear. Se equivocó. Tras más de un mes de bombardeos por parte de Estados Unidos e Israel, lo más probable es que usted haya reforzado la determinación del régimen de producir un arma nuclear.

También en este aspecto, Estados Unidos se encuentra en una situación peor —más en peligro— de lo que estábamos en 2018, antes de que usted retirara a Estados Unidos del acuerdo nuclear con Irán negociado por Barack Obama. En dicho acuerdo, Irán accedió a restringir su programa nuclear —reduciendo sus reservas de uranio en un 98 por ciento, limitando el enriquecimiento al 3,67 por ciento y permitiendo inspecciones— a cambio del levantamiento de las sanciones relacionadas con la energía nuclear impuestas por la ONU, la UE y Estados Unidos.

Irán posee ahora unas reservas de aproximadamente 970 libras de uranio enriquecido hasta un 60 por ciento de pureza, según el Centro para el Control de Armas y la No Proliferación. Esa cantidad se acerca al grado armamentístico. Nadie sabe dónde está almacenada.

Usted pensó que ganar esta guerra sería tan fácil como secuestrar a Nicolás Maduro de Venezuela e instaurar allí un régimen títere. Se equivocó de nuevo. El viejo ayatolá ya no está, pero el nuevo —y su régimen— son aún más radicales y de línea dura.

Usted asumió que el poderío militar de Estados Unidos debilitaría la capacidad militar de Irán. Se equivocó. Han adoptado la guerra asimétrica —utilizando drones y misiles de bajo costo y bloqueando el estrecho de Ormuz— en lugar de enfrentarse directamente a las fuerzas superiores de Estados Unidos e Israel.

Usted pensó que el régimen cedería pronto. Se equivocó. Ha pasado más de un mes y son ellos quienes están jugando al juego de la espera. Creen que pueden resistir las crecientes presiones políticas y económicas mejor y durante más tiempo de lo que pueden hacerlo usted y Estados Unidos. Puede que tengan razón.

Según se informa, usted ha comunicado a sus asesores que ahora está dispuesto a poner fin a la guerra, incluso si Irán continúa bloqueando el estrecho de Ormuz. Quizás esta sea su mejor opción en este momento. Pero ello permitirá a Irán decidir en el futuro cuánto petróleo circula y hacia quién se dirige, y podría provocar que el daño económico para Estados Unidos se agrave de manera exponencial.

Sr. Trump, ¿cree realmente que ha ganado esta guerra? ¿Cree de verdad que Estados Unidos se encuentra en una situación mejor que cuando usted comenzó la guerra? Quizás las personas que le rodean le dicen que ha ganado la guerra y que estamos mejor, porque usted castiga a los portadores de malas noticias y recompensa a quienes le dicen lo que quiere oír. Es de suponer que está escuchando esas mismas buenas noticias ficticias de boca de los republicanos en el Congreso, de líderes extranjeros aduladores y de otros variopintos lacayos y lamebotas.

O tal vez piense que, si logra convencer a suficientes personas de que ha ganado y de que estamos mejor, entonces habrá ganado de verdad y Estados Unidos estará mejor. Porque, para usted, todo gira siempre en torno a la percepción pública de la realidad, más que en torno a la realidad misma. Todo depende de la publicidad exagerada, de la manipulación informativa, de las exageraciones y de las mentiras descaradas. Para usted no existe la verdad; solo existe la creencia.

O quizás piense que, si insiste en repetir que ha ganado —o que va ganando— y que Estados Unidos ha salido victorioso, su pensamiento mágico acabará haciéndose realidad.

Pero esto no es un juego, y usted no es un mago. Esto es sangre y entrañas de verdad. Dolor real. Muertes y heridas reales. Aumentos reales en el precio de la gasolina. Dificultades reales para personas reales: en Estados Unidos, en Oriente Medio y en otros lugares.

No puede fingir, señor. Esto no es un programa de telerrealidad. Esto es de verdad. Y la realidad es que los estadounidenses estamos ahora peor y menos seguros de lo que estábamos cuando usted comenzó todo esto.

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