Trump contradicts Rubio, says Israel didn’t force him to launch war

Trump contradicts Rubio, says Israel didn’t force him to launch war

When he ran for president ten years ago, Donald Trump rejected the sort of military adventurism that had squandered American blood and treasure in distant conflicts. On the campaign trail in 2024, he boasted that he had not started any new wars during his first term. He promised to govern as a “peace president”. Yet by unleashing the most consequential war in the Middle East in two decades, Mr Trump has made a mockery of that pledge. He is now a war president.