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‘Project Freedom’ marks a classic Trump flip from warmonger to humanitarian

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“Project Freedom” has all the trappings of a classic episode of the Trump Show, the reality series that the rest of the world does not just have to watch, but live through and survive. It has a dramatic plot twist, it is bathed in a self-projected beatific light, and the trailer looked far more promising that the reality. Trump spent a long weekend in Florida banging the war drum. Iran had not “paid a big enough price” for its past misdeeds, he wrote in an online post before spending Friday afternoon revving up a cheering crowd at America’s largest retirement community. “You know we’re in a war because I think you would agree we cannot let lunatics have a nuclear weapon. Do you agree?” he asked, and the elderly Maga crowd yelled its assent. Donald Trump speaking to The Villages retirement community in Florida on Friday. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images By Sunday afternoon, however, when Trump sat down to write on his Truth Social site once more, his mood had whiplashed.…

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