What the president has intuited but can’t admit is that America, and by extension Trump, has suffered defeat. Not on the battlefield, where the US and Israel dominate. But on the bigger map of strategy.

 

Defeat Has Never Sounded as Victorious as in Trump’s Address

April 2, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT

By Andreas Kluth

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist.