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    1. House has called “an important update on Iran”—his first primetime remarks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Feb. 28. The address will air across all four major broadcast networks, forcing scheduled programming to move to the side, including the season finales of The Masked Singer and a special episode of Survivor.

      The address comes as gas prices cross the $4 a gallon threshold on average in the U.S., and Trump’s approval rating has sunk below 40% in recent polling while he continues to advance a war that the majority of Americans say they oppose. Politically, for Trump, the pressure to explain the war—the who, what, why and when—has become unavoidable.

      Read more: [https://fortune.com/2026/04/01/trump-address-nation-wednesday-iran-war-expectations/](https://fortune.com/2026/04/01/trump-address-nation-wednesday-iran-war-expectations/)

    2. softDisk-60 on

      If you want to know what to expect, just watch for spurious large investment positions and polymarkets with odd activity.

    3. Trump attacking Iran, failing to force a capitulation, and walking away with a wounded and aggrieved Iranian state now effectively in control of the entire Strait without the US Navy even attempting to transit is probably the single greatest geopolitical 9mm-under-the-chin you could imagine.

      Not only has the Trump administration completely ceded control of a strategic waterway, he’s hastened the demise of the petrodollar, left the Gulf states to hope the Iranian military can’t reconstitute in any meaningful way, and let the Chinese come out looking like completely level-headed reasonable actors to the world simply by not doing a single thing.

      He can try and retcon the strategic objectives all he wants, but the reality is the security situation in the Middle East is decidedly worse today than it was February 27th, and we have nothing to show for it.

    4. He’s going to declare victory and say the war will be over in two weeks.

      This misses a key point. The war can only end when one side forces surrender or *both* sides decide it’s over. Why wouldn’t Iran continue to keep the strait shut and attack US military wherever they can reach them.

    5. Significant_Swing_76 on

      Trump will leave NATO, or at least say so.
      It’s always someone else’s fault.

      And then he’ll announce another lie about Iran, claiming he won, while MEU prepares for a ground invasion.

      In the end, Putin and Xi wins, “the west” loses.

    6. bygonecenarion on

      Remarkable how many people in this thread are seemingly cheering for a strategic defeat for the US (if only to spite Trump), and who can apparently portend the future outcome of a multifaceted complex military situation

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