Trump hunkers down after Iran strikes

WASHINGTON — Hunkered down at his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, US President Donald Trump kept an unusually low profile after announcing the start of huge military strikes on Iran. Trump eschewed the grand Oval Office addresses to the nation favored by his predecessors to announce foreign wars, and opted instead for an eight-minute video on his Truth Social network. Posted at 2:30 am on Saturday, the short statement in which Trump stood at a podium wearing a white baseball cap was the last the world would see of the US commander-in-chief until another video on Sunday afternoon. READ: Iran’s […]... Keep on reading: Trump hunkers down after Iran strikes