“President Trump’s complaints about the news coverage of the Iran war are predictable—and entirely justified. ‘We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning,’ he wrote Friday morning on Truth Social. Pick up Sunday’s Times, and it’s as if the editors took that as a command rather than a criticism. ‘War Sends More Tremors Through a Shaken World Economy,’ reads a headline across the top of the front page, with the speculative subheadline ‘Fallout From Prolonged Conflict With Iran Could Bring Catastrophic Consequences’ Among the catastrophes the article cites: ‘In Kenya, tea growers and traders worried their exports to Iran would rot on the dock,'” writes former Clinton pollster-turned-Trump ballsucker Mark Penn in a Wall Street Journal editorial printed on Monday, that intro followed by a few paragraphs of headlines.

Penn then brings it around to his summary findings, writing “Much of the news media seems determined to advance a narrative that Mr Trump is wrong about everything and that the US is getting its clock cleaned by a powerful Iranian war machine that has successfully made the transition to new leadership. Journalists have a right and a duty to report bad news and to question Pollyannaish reports from the US government. But many seem to be going beyond that and rooting for America to lose – against an enemy that is the world’s biggest state sponsor of terror, that has killed thousands of unarmed protesters, and that stockpiled thousands of ballistic missiles while seeking nuclear weapons, which its rulers promised to use against the US and Israel. Largely absent are even the most basic stories analyzing Iran’s losses and the fate of their supposed leadership.”

“Why? What seems to be driving the coverage is reportorial partisanship and the Democrats’ determination to oppose this president no matter what he does. We’ll see, again, how that works out for them,” Penn concluded, letting his words linger like a warning of horrific consequences.