Outside the Beltway

Iran Surrenders!

Well, it's complicated.

· Saturday, March 7, 2026 · 4 comments

A little less than an hour ago, President Trump posted this on Truth Social:

The lamestream media has not reported this surrender, but there’s no way the President of the United States would truth this on Truth Social if it didn’t happen.

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  1. Kathy says:
    Saturday, 7 March 2026 at 07:47

    … but there’s no way the President of the United States would truth this on Truth Social if it didn’t happen.

    Correct.

    Ergo giving someone the title of president, even if they won the election, doesn’t make them president, anymore than putting a chimp in a tuxedo would make the brute a gentleman.

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  2. charontwo says:
    Saturday, 7 March 2026 at 07:52

    @Kathy:

    Old saying: When a clown moves into a palace, the clown does not become a king, the palace becomes a circus.

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  3. Daryl says:
    Saturday, 7 March 2026 at 08:11

    Wait, so Iran has surrendered to its neighbors…but yet…

    “…Iran is no longer the “Bully of the Middle East,” they are, instead, “THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST,” and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse!”

    Which is it, Fatso?

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  4. James Joyner says:
    Saturday, 7 March 2026 at 08:23

    @Kathy: The problem is that winning the election makes someone President, with all the powers thereto. It doesn’t, of course, make them presidential.

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