Paul Krugman: Trump doesn't care about what his war has done to America. He's realizing what this has done to him. [View all]

Paul Krugman suggested Trump knows the war in Iran is now a lost cause, but that the president would not pull out of the conflict. Speaking in a post published to his Substack, Krugman suggested the only way out may be to invoke the 25th Amendment. That would force Trump from office and pass presidential powers and duties to Vice President JD Vance.

Krugman said, "This is really bad. It’s hard to see what happens in 48 hours. It’s clear that Trump, for all his pretense of, 'I’m always winning,' is aware of how completely he screwed things up, that he’s aware that he has basically led America into an epic strategic defeat.

"I don’t think he cares about that from the point of view of America, but he is realizing what this has done to him — that he will probably quite rapidly lose his grip on U.S. politics, and certainly to the extent that he cares about his legacy, it’s not going to be his wonderful ballroom.

"It’s going to be that he’s the man who single-handedly led America to one of its greatest defeats ever. But now what? It would be one thing if he just kind of slunk away into the night, which is what we would have hoped would happen, but instead it sounds like he’s unable to accept it and that he is going to try and do something truly awful in an attempt to somehow redeem himself and the situation.

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