James O Brien Calls Trump A Deranged Liar Over Iran War

Trump claimed to have destroyed Iran’s nuclear capability last year, only to launch fresh attacks on the country alongside Israel more than three weeks ago.

In the past few days alone, the president has threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants, before calling off the attacks and claiming that peace talks with Tehran are underway.

But in a brutal monologue on LBC on Monday, O’Brien said both sides “haven’t even sent each other a postcard”.

“Other things that you know include the claim that there was a 48 hour deadline in place for Iran to re-open the Strait of Hormuz otherwise he would start bombing power plants in Iran,” he said. “To which Iran responded by saying ‘we’ll start bombing power plants all over West Asia’.

“Guess what, Taco? ‘When you claimed that you had completely obliterated our abilities to launch attacks nine months ago, you were lying. And when you claimed it last week, you were lying. And when you claimed it the week before that, you were lying, because we’re still launching attacks and we’ve still got the Strait of Hormuz by the proverbial short and curlies’.”

O’Brien added: “You may have thought over the course of the last three weeks that I was exaggerating just how mad all of this is, and just how utterly, utterly thankless it is to attribute any inkling of sense or sensibility or normality to Donald Trump.

“The only way you can report on this stuff is by acknowledging the derangement and the lies.

“He is a deranged liar, and therefore everything he does needs to be viewed through the lens of his deranged lies.”