Trump bashed for using Mar-a-Lago 'blanket fort' to monitor Iran strikes [View all]
Source: Raw Story
February 28, 2026 6:12PM ET
President Donald Trump was bashed on Saturday after photos emerged of the "blanket fort" at his Mar-a-Lago estate that he used as a Situation Room to monitor the strikes in Iran.
The White House posted a photo of Trump alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of Personnel Dan Scavino, and other administration officials on its X account on Saturday evening. The photo shows a makeshift room surrounded by black curtains and multiple maps of the region.
One Israeli reporter described the room as "the situation room at Mar-a-Lago," referring to the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) where other presidents monitor military operations. The officials were monitoring the fallout from the U.S. and Israel's coordinated strikes against multiple sites in Iran in an attack called " Operation Epic Fury."
Political analysts and observers bashed the photo on social media. "Calling it 'the situation room at Mar-a-Lago' doesn’t morph that blanket fort into a SCIF," Joyce Vance, law professor at the University of Alabama, posted on X.
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Idiocracy.
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