The president openly lies all the time. About his pool refurbishment, the size of his crowds and even how good he is at golf.

Yep. And when he's not deliberately lying, he's often confabulating as a late-stage dementia patient.

In short, Trump is not a source.

Are their mouths open and are they making noise? Then yes.

I don't trust anything the North Korean government says without external verification, why would I believe the U.S. government?

That's an easy one: I don't even have to look at what the facts are to be sure they're lying. Just a question of what about.

Although "massive" is a subjective word. Nothing can be as massive as WW2 carpet bombing.

Or even what they were regularly doing to grids of rainforest in Vietnam.

"massive bombing" is irrelevant. They either have the capacity to achieve their war goals or they don't and the bombing is not achieving US goals. We're apparently up to "asking around for creative solutions"[1] which means Trump started the war with no credible plan of victory. Which means he was ignoring the 'deep state' experts and listening to yes men and Israel, yet again.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/us-military-iran...