Mission accomplished, Trump boasted. Not so fast, Twitter replied.

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Donald Trump can’t catch a break, mostly because Donald Trump is extremely bad at being President of the United States.

Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning with a triumphant message after U.S., French, and British precision strikes hit key targets in Syria on Friday evening. “A perfectly executed strike,” he boasted, ending the message with an ill-conceived: “Mission accomplished!”

The words echoed those of a former president, George W. Bush, who declared “mission accomplished” in 2003 to mark the end of major combat operations in Iraq. Unfortunately for Bush (and the rest of the world), the violence went on and casualties continued to mount, in greater numbers than before, over the subsequent years. Read more…

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