Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland; sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday It was a claim uttered repeatedly on the 2024 campaign trail: “I’m the only president in 72 years that didn’t start a war,” Donald Trump said in Sioux City, Iowa . Fact checkers cried foul and pointed out that Jimmy Carter , president from 1977 to 1981, did not start any wars either. But Trump won the election anyway. Continue reading...