Greetings! Cowardly lion? I’m not necessarily accusing Trump of cowardly behavior last month for sneaking off Air Force One in a catering cart for the safety of a nearby U.S. Air Force jet while preparing to leave a NATO meeting in Turkey.  But the optics looked terrible, especially for an administration that prizes hyper-masculinity as one of its core values.  He let journalists and administration staff fly in Air Force One. Most were unaware that it might be targeted by Iranians aiming to blow the aircraft out of the sky. Worth noting: The NY Times nailed it by publishing this quote about the catering cart incident from Andrew Marlowe, who wrote the great 1997 movie “Air Force One” starring Harrison Ford as the heroic president. “If the threat were that great, it’s hard to imagine the audience rooting for any character who would trade his own safety by treating the remaining civilians onboard as potential sacrificial lambs, especially without their informed consent,” said Marlowe. Also worth noting: The relentlessly macho-posturing SecDef Pete Hegseth joined POTUS on the secret jet while Scott Bessent and Marco Rubio flew on the decoy jet. Does this mean Trump views them as more expendable than Hegseth?...America lost the Iran war. So says The American Conservative’s Andrew Day. “Clearly, the White House badly underestimated Tehran’s resilience and resolve,” Day writes, “an inexcusable miscalculation considering the frantic warnings issued by Iran experts before the war. There aren’t many silver linings here amid the gloom and doom.” Worth noting: the Washington Examiner also slams Trump’s war. The headline says it all: Trump Has a “Big Stick” in Iran. He Forgot to Bring a Brain...Why are canceled movie stars like Armie Hammer and Jonathan Majors appearing in anti-Muslim films? Texas Monthly has the answers....If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard