In an analysis of how Donald Trump treats almost every setback as a win and repeats it until many people doubt the loss, Associated Press writer Will Weissert cites the war with Iran as one of the latest examples.
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Here's how to cope with in-flight anxietyToo young for the MMR shot, babies become 'sitting ducks' in measles outbreaksJudge bars Arizona from regulating prediction market operators and pauses prosecution of KalshiFor Chinese visa-seekers in the US, the path to good fortune lies in … Chick-fil-A?Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the US-Israeli war in IranPresidente de Yibuti, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, reelegido para un sexto mandatoFormer President Donald Trump returns from a lunch break at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 28, 2024, in New York. Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference held at Trump Tower, Sept., 6, 2024 in New York. Donald Trump is greeted by the media after arriving at open auditions for the second season for his reality television show, “The Apprentice,” on March 18, 2004, in New York. Donald Trump, the billionaire developer and producer of NBC’s, “The Apprentice,” with his wife, Melania Knauss, and their son, Barron, pose for a photo after he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Jan. 16, 2007. Former President Donald Trump returns from a lunch break at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 28, 2024, in New York. Former President Donald Trump returns from a lunch break at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 28, 2024, in New York. Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference held at Trump Tower, Sept., 6, 2024 in New York. Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference held at Trump Tower, Sept., 6, 2024 in New York. Donald Trump is greeted by the media after arriving at open auditions for the second season for his reality television show, “The Apprentice,” on March 18, 2004, in New York. Donald Trump is greeted by the media after arriving at open auditions for the second season for his reality television show, “The Apprentice,” on March 18, 2004, in New York. Donald Trump, the billionaire developer and producer of NBC’s, “The Apprentice,” with his wife, Melania Knauss, and their son, Barron, pose for a photo after he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Jan. 16, 2007. Donald Trump, the billionaire developer and producer of NBC’s, “The Apprentice,” with his wife, Melania Knauss, and their son, Barron, pose for a photo after he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Jan. 16, 2007. “It wasn’t always so easy,” he intones via voice-over, noting that by the late 1980s, “I was seriously in trouble” and “billions of dollars in debt.” It is one of the few times Trump has ever publicly acknowledged failure. Even then, he was reading a script meant to promote against-the-odds credentials for viewers, previewing theTrump never loses. At least in his telling.The president is extolling a change in rule after Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed. But he was replaced by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, who is seen as more hard-line. Trump says Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, but Tehran has stockpiles of enriched uranium. The strait is reopening — under Iranian military control.When The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote that Trump had claimed a premature win in Iran, the president responded in a social media post Thursday, “Actually, it is a Victory.”On Saturday he posted that news outlets “love saying that Iran is ‘winning’ when, in fact, everyone knows that they are LOSING, and LOSING BIG!” Asked later in the day about the state ofClaiming the winner’s mantle has been part of Trump’s psyche since he was a young man and a New York real estate developer. It has persisted on matters great and small. The golf tournaments at his clubs, where he is the perennial champion. The adverse court rulings where he insists things went his way. The deals he announces that are never consummated. “He has this fictional narrative in his head” and is “like a screenwriter,” said David Cay Johnston, author of “The Making of Donald Trump.” “When you need to change the narrative, you just change it. ”This is the world of Trump — pitchman and president, shaper of his story and others’, sloganeering his way through his second term. One baseball cap he wears and hawks encapsulates the approach in five words: “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING.” “It’s much easier to lead when you’re successful and you’re winning,” Trump told a recent Saudi investment conference in Florida, where he also noted, “I always like to hang around losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.”White Houses for decades have tried to cast bad news as good in hopes of softening unfavorable assessments of politics, policy and even war. But Trump has made always winning a core of his presidency.so his import taxes can be “used in a much more powerful and obnoxious way, with legal certainty.” If promised investments in the U.S. that he’s promotedThis form of alternative programming has become a governing principle — and a Trump family value.“He IS the definition of a winner,” the younger Trump said in a statement, “based on what he has built and accomplished.”on Jan. 6, 2021, said the president’s “ego won’t allow him to acknowledge defeat” and that “reality just kind of bends” to it. “That was the messaging strategy,” Matthews said. “It was, ‘How can we redefine this loss as a victory?’” She said she regrets it now, but back then, there was “always a way to find an excuse to justify that loss and defend his position.” More recently, Trump’s second-term White House marked his first year back in office by listing “365 wins” over the same number of days. Those included some repetitive and exaggerated claims and also touted White House spokesman Davis Ingle said Trump “proudly projects the unmatched greatness of our country consistently in his public comments.” John Bolton was one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers and an early supporter of the U.S. and Israel striking Iran. But he said that Trump’s declaration of victory over Iran was always “baked in the cake” regardless of the actual outcome.federal authorities sued Trump and his father, alleging racial discrimination in renting apartments their company built in Brooklyn and Queens, two New York City boroughs. Urging the Trumps to countersue wasThe case was settled after both sides signed an agreement two years later prohibiting the Trumps from “discriminating against any person.” The future Republican president said it was a victory, noting there had been no admission of guilt — despite the Justice Department calling the settlement “one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated.” Trump first met Cohn in 1973 at Manhattan’s exclusive Le Club, and Cohn is credited with imparting key rules, including never admitting you are wrong or admitting defeat and attacking anyone who attacks you.“Whatever position you’ve taken, that’s the position, and anybody who challenges you, they’re wrong. They’re disgusting. They’re incompetent. They’re idiotic,” Johnston said. “If they’re law enforcement, they’re corrupt.”Through the years, Trump consistently lost money, launching failed lines of namesake products that included steaks, bottled water, vodka, a magazine, an airline, a home mortgage concern and online classes. His Trump Plaza Hotel filed for bankruptcy, his New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League folded and the Tour de Trump cycling race never became the U.S. answer to the Tour de France. Barbara Res, who worked for Trump at his company for nearly two decades, remembers him being fond of pitting top executives against one another to ensure he remained the most powerful voice, even as losses mounted.“He wasn’t always like that. He understood the difference before,” said Res, author of “Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working With Donald Trump Reveals About Him.” “I can’t say why he changed. It could be because he has so much power. Or because he never really believed it.” None of that tarnished Trump’s self-projected image as rich and famous, which was supercharged by the TV hit “The Apprentice.” But Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor of television and popular culture, said that success was built on earlier factors, including the appealing hubris built into the title of Trump’s 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal,” his aggressive courting of media attention and his obsession with naming things after himself. That helped Trump become the “stock character of billionaire,” landed him on the likes of “The Jeffersons,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “The Nanny,” and in “Home Alone 2,” Thompson said. “When you need someone to quickly and efficiently represent ‘American Rich Guy,’ Trump has kind of cast himself in that position,” Thompson said, “and everybody goes along with it.” Trump did not acknowledge his staggering losses. After his three casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, filed for bankruptcy, he, whose wife, Linda, is now Trump’s education secretary. The future president relished raucous, made-for-TV events where the wrestler he was backing always won. Trump also began addressing crowds, honing the “sketch and the rhythm” that would later become his strength as a politician, Thompson said: “The rallies are born in wrestling,” he said. “Winning is an attitude, not a collection of facts,” Thompson said. “Winning is, in this case, always defined by the person doing the winning.”After he lost the 2016 Republican Iowa caucus, he posted that the winner, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, “illegally stole it.” Trump claimed to have won the popular vote against Democrat Hillary Clinton that November, “if you deduct millions of people who voted illegally.” In addition to his false claims that the 2020 race was stolen, he alleged widespread wrongdoing in the 2024 election, despite capturing all key swing states. Russell Muirhead, a Dartmouth College professor who has written about Trump’s chaotic governing style, said the president has been at the practice long enough “to live in a world where you make your own reality” and there is no real world “outside your own mind.” Trump says he has won 38 times at golf clubs he owns. That includes a 2018 tournament in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he did not play but beat the winner in a subsequent match, one where he missed the first round and another during which he posted a final-round 67 — a score even some professional golfers would envy. Matthews said that when she worked for him at the White House, she could not recall Trump ever admitting being wrong, even in private. “When it’s obvious that it looks like a loss on paper, you have to kind of spin this somehow into a victory,” she said. “Because that’s what Trump would want.”EDITOR’S NOTE: Will Weissert has covered politics for The Associated Press since 2011 and the White House since 2022.
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