Pentagon Feared Trump Would Blurt Out Iran Plan

The New York Times reports:

At times, Trump’s penchant for social media was the biggest threat to the operation’s secrecy. Last Monday, he posted on Truth Social that “everyone should evacuate Tehran!” The next day, he revealed that he had left a meeting of the Group of 7 in Canada not to broker a Middle East cease-fire but for something “much bigger.” He added, “Stay tuned!”

Inside the Pentagon and the U.S. Central Command, military planners worried that Trump was giving Iran too much warning about an impending strike.

So they worked up their own ruse: They had two fleets of B-2 bombers leave Missouri at the same time, one flying east and one flying west. Flight trackers spotted the westward planes, which offered some idea of the timing of a possible attack. But those planes were a decoy.

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New York Times tick-tock on Trump’s decision-making. Not only was the “two weeks” line a ruse, so was lunch with Steve Bannon. Using your former chief strategist as a decoy to hide your new strategy…https://t.co/e1B3WQ7KBy

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) June 23, 2025