The media are no longer reporters, but actors. If the choice is between Trump and the ayatollahs in Tehran, they choose Iran. The way they do it resembles the modus operandi of psychopaths: Damn if you do, damn if you don’t. In one moment Trump is portrayed as insane, in the next he is called a “chicken”.
No sooner had a ceasefire been announced than Aftenposten’s Kjetil Hanssen wrote: “This is classic Trump TACO: up like a bear and down like a sheepskin.”
Only hours earlier they would have had him committed, and the Democrats would have had him removed under the 25th Amendment.
What term would be adequate to describe the behaviour of the media?
If the media cease to relate to truth and use falsehood as an instrument, the public are defenceless.
The media proclaim in large headlines that it is Iran that has won; it is their ten-point plan that lies on the table. Anyone who reads Trump’s own messages can scarcely believe that Iran is to be allowed to operate a toll station for maritime traffic, yet that is what the media write. In doing so, they invest all their prestige in Trump losing.
Is there anyone who believes that Trump will accept such a plan? He makes it crystal clear that traffic must be opened immediately and without restrictions.
Is it the Revolutionary Guard that has its finger on the trigger, or is it Trump?
Trump escalated the rhetoric by saying that he could bring Iran to an end with a single strike, then that an entire civilisation could die, with the clarification that by “an entire civilisation” he meant 47 years of clerical rule. The ayatollahs have not contributed civilisation, but barbarism. Yet that clarification the media pretended not to see. They made Trump’s warnings the main story, and Dagsnytt asked whether Trump was now sane.
It is the same line of argument that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenbaum introduced in Trump’s first term: he undertook to carry recording equipment during meetings with the President in order to demonstrate that he was not of sound mind.
The Democrats had a president who was not of sound mind; he was demented. Yet the media systematically smoothed things over for him. When Biden wandered out into the terrain, completely lost, they claimed that it was manipulated videos. While the media launched a full assault on Trump because he dares to challenge a world order in which an Islamist regime can acquire nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, they remain entirely silent about a recording of Iran’s Minister of Justice as he states that more death sentences must be handed down.
The criminal Islamic regime in Iran has issued an order to “accelerate” executions
In the midst of war Mohseni Ejei, head of the judiciary, has issued an order to accelerate executions and confiscate the property of “enemy agents”.
Blood thirsty savages. pic.twitter.com/pwkclcCsW4
— Throwback Iran (@Tarikh_Eran) April 7, 2026
The media revealed their true nature when they criticised Midnight Hammer last summer. They dislike it whenever Trump outmanoeuvres them. Their response is to criticise the outcome. That was by no means what Trump had led them to expect.
Western Europeans have begun to imitate the journalists: why were we not informed about the attack? This is used as an excuse for Western Europeans not wanting to contribute to securing a shipping lane on which they themselves are entirely dependent.
Trump wishes to secure it because the United States bears responsibility as the guarantor of a functioning world economy. The United States is so large that it too depends on things functioning, but not as dependent as Europe, Japan, China, and South Korea are. The United States could let the world go its own way, but does not, because a responsibility rests upon the one who is largest and most powerful.
That responsibility Russia and China have never assumed, and that is the great difference.
Trump assumes that responsibility which the United States has traditionally borne. But weak Europeans are not willing to give him any credit for it. They take the side of the destructive forces: Iran, the resistance front, and the deep state that has declared war on Trump.
The rules-based order of which these people speak is a fiction. It is a world governed by China.
There is such a thing as civilisational self-hatred. The West appears to be heavily afflicted. Particularly Europe and liberal America.
They lack the capacity for enthusiasm and possess no staying power. They speak of total defence and war. Yet, faced with an open conflict, they would collapse after only a few days.
These are the same people who say that we face war in Europe, and they mean vis-à-vis Russia.
Trump has rebuilt the American defence. The United States has gone straight into the lion’s den in Iran. The regime demonstrated through its slaughter of its own population what it is capable of, what it stands for. Yet the liberals are unable to see the connection: how would such a regime behave if it were to acquire nuclear weapons?
The clerical regime has already shown that it possesses missiles capable of reaching Oslo and London.
But Starmer and Støre agree: this is not our war.
If this continues, no cavalry will come to our rescue the next time we need it.