Playbook: “Two months into 2026, and Trump has held four ‘affordability’ rallies. He’s made a handful of policy announcements on the cost of living. And he’s launched a stunning military operation in Venezuela, a hyper-aggressive immigration drive in Minnesota that left two Americans dead, caused a major diplomatic incident over Greenland, seen his DOJ forced to release millions of documents from the Epstein files and attempt to prosecute the chair of the Federal Reserve. And the government is partially shut down, again.”“And now there’s this: Embarking on a major war in the Middle East — with little effort to prepare the U.S. public — would be pretty far from anyone’s ideal election-year strategy, let alone for an operation that literally campaigned on ending foreign wars. But Trump doesn’t seem to care.”