---
title: "Trump goes nuclear on the Wall Street Journal after they published an op-ed titled \"The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker.\""
description: "\"What did I give them? A country in tatters! Their Navy is at the bottom of the sea, their Air Force is gone, their leaders are DEAD, their Nuclear Labs were OBLITERATED.\"\n\nHe also drops a specific number: Iran is \"losing 500 million dollars a day\" from the blockade. \n\nAnd calls the WSJ \"just another failing political RAG\" that \"Rupert Murdoch told to write.\"\n\nThe irony is that both Trump and the WSJ are making each other's case. \n\nThe WSJ says Iran played Trump.\n\nTrump says he destroyed Iran.\n\nBoth can be true simultaneously.\n\nIran's military is devastated AND the regime survived, kept the Strait, and is negotiating from a position of leverage. \n\nStill, Iran is losing $500 million revenue a day. And that's the economic leverage the US is using."
---

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# [Trump goes nuclear on the Wall Street Journal after they published an op-ed titled "The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker."](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/trump-goes-nuclear-on-the-wall-street-journal-after-they-published-an-op-ed-titled-the-iranians-take-trump-for-a-sucker)

 Written by [Charles-Henry Monchau, CFA, CMT, CAIA](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/author/charles-henry-monchau) | Apr 22, 2026, 2:00:54 PM

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