Iran asks: Is Trump using confusion tactics?

'The US President says he wants peace but is sending 10,000 troops to the war zone,' said a perplexed spokes-skeleton for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corpse.

'He says he's negotiating with an Iranian leader who calls the shots, but says his interlocutor will be shot if he's caught negotiating with him.

'And Trump says he wants to bomb all our energy plants and be Iran's worst nightmare, but then says he's kindly giving us 10 days before doing it.

'Is he saying all this to confuse us and give us a huge migraine so that we beg him to away?'

A State Department official was quick to clarify the situation, saying: 'This is not a trick. The President is way out of his depth and genuinely has no idea what he's doing.'

'I've even managed to confuse myself,' Trump posted on Truth Social, in a unique moment of honesty.

'I've been wandering around Graceland looking at pictures of Elvis when I could have sworn I was in the war room at Mar-a-Lago launching Tomahawks onto schools.'

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That was a tough round of Gulf, admits Trump

'I thought I'd go for a round in that Persian Gulf,' Trump told a collection of attentive tee pegs.

'But boy, was it hard. Too many water hazards and sand traps. I gave it my best shot - about 15,000 shots with Tomahawk missiles and such like, but I just ended up getting stuck in the rough.

'I guess I'll have to do what I always do when I'm losing - pick up my ball and walk away, saying I won. I'll put it down on my scorecard as twelve under par.

'From now on, I'll be playing closer to home, beating up countries around what I'm calling the Gulf of America. I won against Venezuela with a single stroke. Now I think I'll take few swings against impoverished, defenceless Cuba.

'But I'm never Gulfing in the Middle East again. Those Persian Gulfers play even dirtier than I do.'

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Trump making peace deal with his imaginary Iranian friend

'I've been holding talks with a high level Iranian, the very highest," Donald Trump told worried-looking reporters on the South Lawn of the White House.

'I call him Kebab. He agrees with everything I say, so we'll have a peace deal soon with Iran handing over all its oil and its nuclear fuel and letting me build a casino on the Persian Gulf.

'I'll be calling it the Trump Hormuz, in honour of my great victory there."

Iran has said that in the real world no member of its government has been speaking to Trump.

'It's not unusual for presidents regressing into their second childhood to have imaginary friends,' said a White House spokes-shrink, trying to reassure the press.

'President Trump has a whole load of helpful voices speaking to him from inside his head.

'They told him to bomb Iran. They told him the 2020 election was stolen. They told him to have sex with Stormy Daniels.

'What's that, Mr Trump? Launch a nuclear strike on Tehran? Well, if that's what your friend Mr Trident told you to do, then you must go ahead and do it.'

Donald Trump is 79 nuclear winters old.

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