President Trump stood up at a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House on Sunday and casually dropped that the United States military campaign against Iran is now officially called “Operation Epic Fury.” He then rattled off the objectives like a guy reading a grocery list: destroy Iran’s missile capabilities, annihilate its navy, end its nuclear ambitions, and prevent it from arming terrorists.
Four objectives. No hedging. No “measured response.” Just a guy at the podium speed-running through the collapse of a terrorist state like he’s ordering at a drive-thru. “Destroy their missiles, annihilate their navy, end the nukes, stop the terror funding.” That’ll be all, thank you, pull around to the window.
We are living in the greatest timeline. Only Donald Trump would name a military operation like he’s naming a WWE pay-per-view event. “Operation Epic Fury” sounds like something an eight-year-old boy would scribble on the side of his treehouse fort — and we mean that as a compliment.
Every previous president would have called it “Operation Enduring Resolve” or some other boring Pentagon word salad. Trump went with Epic Fury. God bless this man.
Trump also told reporters he expected the military intervention to last about four to five weeks. Not years. Not decades.
Not “as long as it takes,” which is Washington-speak for “we have no plan and no exit strategy.”
Four to five weeks. He said it the way you’d estimate how long it takes to remodel a bathroom.
But he added that “we have capability to go far longer than that” — just in case anyone in Tehran thought they could wait us out.
In a New York Post interview, Trump was asked point-blank whether he’d send American ground troops into Iran. His answer? He wouldn’t rule it out “if they were necessary.”
That’s not saber-rattling. That’s a guy who treats military strategy the way the rest of us treat a clogged drain — whatever works, use it.
The entire diplomatic establishment just felt a cold shiver run down its spine. We love it.
The Iranian Red Crescent — that’s Iran’s own government source — says more than 550 people have been killed since the strikes kicked off Saturday. Over 130 cities across Iran are under attack. That’s not a “limited engagement.” That’s what happens when you poke the bear for 45 years and the bear finally wakes up.
Their navy is getting annihilated. Their missile sites are getting annihilated.
Basically everything Trump said he was going to annihilate is, in fact, being annihilated. Weird how that works when you actually mean what you say.
Four American service members have now been killed in this operation. We don’t skip past that.
Those four Americans put their lives on the line for this country and didn’t come home. That matters more than anything else in this article. President Trump said he will award them all the Medal of Freedom.
Iran, meanwhile, has responded to getting pummeled by doing what Iran always does — making everyone else fight for them. They’ve escalated attacks on Israel and launched strikes across the Middle East. Hezbollah hit Israel while American and Israeli planes were still pounding Iranian targets.
Iran’s grand strategy appears to be “attack literally everyone in the neighborhood and hope something sticks.” (How’d that work out for them last time?)
Oil spiked 9% on Monday. Brent crude shot above $79 a barrel. Maersk — the shipping company that moves approximately everything on Earth — suspended all vessel crossings in the Strait of Hormuz. So much for “this won’t affect you at home.”
And 1,560 flights were canceled Monday — that’s 41% of all scheduled Middle East arrivals. So if you were planning a vacation to Dubai this week, maybe don’t.
But wait — it gets better. Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner — the Democrats’ favorite “serious national security guy” — says he’s seen no intelligence “that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike.” He’s calling this a “war of choice.”
Oh, you mean the same intelligence community that told us Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? The same one that said Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation? The same one that spied on a sitting president’s campaign and then lied about it for three years?
THAT intelligence community didn’t see an imminent threat? Stop the presses!
(We’re sure Senator Warner had the same concerns about “intelligence” when Biden sending pallets of cash to Iran to beg them to come back to the negotiating table to talk about their nuclear program. Very consistent, that guy.)
The Democrats are “deeply divided” on the strikes — which in Democrat-speak means half of them know Trump is right but just won’t admit it out loud. Congress wasn’t consulted beforehand, and they’re furious about it.
You know what Congress is great at? Leaking classified information to the New York Times.
You know what Congress is terrible at? Making decisions faster than a cruise missile.
Military leaders are quietly suggesting the war could last longer than Trump’s four-to-five-week estimate. Sure, and they also told us Afghanistan would be a quick in-and-out. Forgive us if we trust the guy who actually follows through on his promises over the Pentagon brass who’ve just spent the last four years under DEI training instead of war fighting training.
And if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past year, it’s that when Trump sets a timeline, things tend to come in ahead of schedule. Just ask the Ayatollah. Oh wait — you can’t.
Operation Epic Fury. Four objectives, a timeline, and a president who isn’t afraid to use every tool in the arsenal. The mullahs spent 45 years chanting “Death to America” and now they’re finding out what happens when America finally says “okay, bet.”