{"id":55853,"date":"2026-03-17T17:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55853"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:24:20","slug":"major-white-house-split-leaks-as-trumps-war-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55853","title":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s War Spirals Major as White House Split Leaks All Over the Internet<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major White House Split Leaks as Trump\u2019s War Spirals<\/h1>\n
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FRACTURES<\/div>\n
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An insider says Trump \u201cgrossly overestimated\u201d his own abilities in the conflict.<\/h2>\n

Tom Latchem, Lead Global Correspondent
\nDAILY BEAST<\/p>\n

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Senior White House officials are reportedly having \u201cbuyer\u2019s remorse\u201d over the Iran war as the realization sets in that President Trump was \u201chigh on his own supply\u201d when he launched it.<\/p>\n

That bombshell is buried inside a new Axios dispatch. It lays bare a deep fracture inside Trump\u2019s inner circle<\/a>, now navigating week three of a bloody conflict that has claimed at least 13 American lives, left more than 1,400 Iranians dead, and produced one of the worst civilian atrocities attributed to the U.S. military in decades.<\/p>\n

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A source close to the administration told the outlet that key officials had not been fully on board with Trump\u2019s plans before the 79-year-old president overruled them all. \u201cHe ended up saying, \u2018I just want to do it,\u2019\u201d the source said. \u201cHe grossly overestimated his ability to topple the regime short of sending in ground troops.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The same source said the president had grown dangerously overconfident on the back of what looked like a string of quick wins\u2014last summer\u2019s strikes in Iran and January\u2019s capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>. \u201cHe saw multiple decisive quick victories with extraordinary military competence,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

A senior administration official told Axios that Iran\u2019s disruption of the Strait of Hormuz was only making Trump \u201cmore dug in.\u201d This has raised the specter of what the outlet terms an \u201cescalation trap,\u201d in which a stronger force keeps attacking to assert dominance as the returns diminish and the exit narrows.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s war began on Feb. 28 when the U.S. and Israel launched surprise strikes on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n

Within hours, a suspected Tomahawk missile had reduced a girls\u2019 elementary school in Minab, in southern Iran\u2019s Hormozgan province, to rubble, killing at least 170 people, the vast majority schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

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Trump initially blamed Iran, suggesting the country \u201calso has some Tomahawks\u201d\u2014a claim military experts dismissed. When pressed this week, he said: \u201cI don\u2019t know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Investigations by multiple media outlets have all concluded the U.S. was most likely responsible, as the result of outdated targeting intelligence that still had a Revolutionary Guard naval base at the school\u2019s location.<\/p>\n

A Pentagon 15-6 investigation is underway. The inquiry will establish not whether a mistake occurred, but how.<\/p>\n

On top of the 13 confirmed U.S. military deaths, six crew members were killed when a refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on March 13.<\/p>\n

More than 1,100 children have been injured or killed across the region since the war began, according to UNICEF figures from March 12.<\/p>\n

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told the Daily Beast that any talk of a split was \u201ctotally false,\u201d and that \u201cthe entire administration is united behind President Trump and the Department of War.\u201d She added: \u201cThe President listens to a host of opinions on any given issue, but ultimately decides based on what is best for our country and US national security.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On Truth Social on Friday night, Trump declared that Iran was \u201ctotally defeated and wants a deal\u2014But not a deal that I would accept!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Daily Beast has contacted the White House and the Pentagon for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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