What did Donald Trump do today?

He managed to get the governments of both Iran and Israel making fun of him.

Trump has made several claims about the Iran-Israel conflict recently, including today. He's insisted that he forbade Israel from assassinating Iran's Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khameni, and that Khameni should be grateful to him for that. He's repeatedly claimed that a single round of U.S. bombings on fortified mountain sites have "totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear capacity, something actual American experts say is false. And he's painted himself as both a conquering hero and a peacemaker.

Today, both Iran and Israel disputed each of these claims, and high officials in both countries took the opportunity to have a little fun at his expense. 

Daniel Katz, the Israeli Defense Minister, says that Israel did plan to assassinate Khameni during its attacks, but failed to find a good opportunity. Katz laughed at the idea that Israel needed Trump's "permission," and said that Trump had made no such request regardless—in effect, calling Trump a liar.

Katz also confirmed what essentially everyone outside of Trump's political orbit has concluded: that the U.S. attacks on three Iranian sites did not and could not have seriously disrupted Iran's nuclear program. In part this is because the key asset that Iran has now that it did not before is a stockpile of highly enriched uranium. No amount of bombing, even if those stockpiles had not been moved from the obvious targets, would render it more than temporarily unsuitable for conversion into a bomb core.

Iran has those stockpiles because in 2018 Trump pulled the United States out of the JCPOA, an international agreement that reduced sanctions against Iran in exchange for monitoring of their nuclear energy program.

Iran's government has also gotten under Trump's skin. Khameni issued a video statement on Thursday boasting about his country's attacks on Israel, and threatening to attack more United States military targets in the Middle East. Iran attacked an American airbase in Qatar in retaliation for the U.S. bombings, something that Trump, incredibly, claims he gave them permission to do. 

Khameni also made fun of Trump's posturing as Israel's "Daddy," a reference to a bit of flattery deployed against Trump by NATO officials earlier this week. Trump was enormously taken in by it and has been bragging about it on social media, including the White House official accounts.

Trump responded furiously today, insisting that not only had the bombings utterly destroyed every trace of Iran's nuclear program, but that Iran would never try to restart it. 

At times, Trump seemed to think that he had ordered the bombing of the entire nation of Iran, which has 90 million people and is roughly the size of the entire mountain west of the United States from Montana to Arizona. He insisted that Iran wasn't thinking about resuming their work on a nuclear weapon because "they're thinking about tomorrow, trying to live in such a mess."

Israel's attacks have caused enormous damage and casualties over the course of the conflict, and included the assassination of a number of prominent scientists working on the Iranian nuclear program. The bombings Trump ordered destroyed parts of some of the above-ground buildings at three military sites.

Why does this matter?

• This is about as clear an indication as it gets that nobody on the world stage actually respects Trump. 

• It shouldn't be this easy to bait the President of the United States. 

• One reason not to tell obvious lies in this situation is that not even your allies will pretend that they're true.