Trump bashed for using Mar-a-Lago 'blanket fort' to monitor Iran strikes

[BumRushDaShow]

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.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2675455322/

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Idiocracy.

[pat_k]

1. As noted elsewhere, Wiles is wearing a Apple watch (or equivalent). There are NO outside electronics allowed in a SCIF.

[Buddyzbuddy]

2. It looks like my billiard room/garage.

[LaMouffette]

3. I bet he is keeping his baseball cap on because he's having an especially bad hair day. In the midst of war, he worries

about his 'do.

[Rebl2]

10. What, No red

Maga hat?

[ShazzieB]

21. Also, I'm sure he thinks wearing a hat with "USA" on it makes him look extra super patriotic.

He's making one of his fake "serious business" facial expressions, too. How charming.

[rubbersole]

4. The Situation Cabana.

[Danascot]

5. Even if the blanket fort were secure

you know trump would be regaling guests at dinner about what's occurred and plans for future actions to anyone willing to listen. He's about as secure as a leaking bag of garbage.

[GenThePerservering]

18. ...with old rotten fish in it. n t

[Goonch]

6. ;-{).....

[mdbl]

17. I thought it was in that bathroom with all the confidential files!

Someone tell that cartoonist.

[Goonch]

19. ;-{).....

[mdbl]

20. Touche!

[mercuryblues]

7. What duh fuck.

Zoom in on the map. Are the red dots targets or where they have bombed? What is up with the flag push pins?

[3Hotdogs]

8. The situation room? In Mere-a-loco, that's what they call the bathroom when he doesn't make it on time.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. I thought "forts" were built with couch pillows -- hence, "Fort Ethan Allen".

PS: What movie/show is the lower photo from ?

[Doc_Technical]

14. We didn't have a "Fort Ethan Allen",

we could only afford a "Fort Sears Roebuck",
and the floor is lava!

[Vinca]

11. Didn't some of his aides give up the plan over lunch at a restaurant the day before the strike anyway?

[Bayard]

12. Black blankets are sound proof

Everyone knows that.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. They also act as a "cloaking device"

so that they render anyone behind them, "invisible"!!111!11!!11!

[sakabatou]

15. We already have offices in the Pentagon/WH to do this, but Dump is too lazy to do so

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Idiocracy had an infinitely more qualified Cabinet.

At Merde-del-Lardo, Putin and Xi are members.