Private Eye Puts 4 Brutal Spins On Donald Trump’s Iran Situation Room Snap

Private Eye put not one, not two, not three — but FOUR — mocking spins on the image of Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe in a makeshift situation room at the president’s luxury Mar-a-Lago resort during the start of U.S.-Israel military operations against Iran this weekend.

The satirical magazine reproduced the image below, with speech bubbles coming out of the trio, four times, under the headline “Trump Attacks Iran: How Operation Epic Fury Unfolded.”

See the cover on Instagram.

In one picture, Ratcliffe is depicted asking “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” And Rubio replies: “No, Trump always looks like this.”

In another, Ratcliffe boasts “Mission accomplished,” to which Trump, wearing a white “USA” cap, replies “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story.”

A third picture shows Ratcliffe asking, “What happens next?” Trump says, “Popular revolt and regime change,” and Rubio replies, “In America.”

The final image shows Ratcliffe asking Trump: “Why have you started this war?”

Trump replies: “So that I can stop it.” Rubio responds, “I’ll ring the Nobel committee.”

The cover was hailed by commenters on Instagram as “Absolutely spot on,” “brilliant” and “so bloody true.”

Private Eye has ripped Trump on countless occasions before, previously poking him over his failure to broker an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (despite vowing to do so in his 2024 campaign) and trolling him with a sarcastic message on his return to the White House.