Trump inches close to 'pulling the trigger' on 'full-fledged war': 'Could begin very soon'

As a fleet of U.S. warships barrel toward Iran, the Trump administration appears poised to “pull the trigger” on a “full-fledged war” at any moment, and may do so sooner than “most Americans realize,” Axios reported Wednesday.

“Trump's military and rhetorical buildups make it hard for him to back down without major concessions from Iran on its nuclear program,” writes Axios’ Mike Allen in the outlet’s report Wednesday.

“It's not in Trump's nature, and his advisers don't view the deployment of all that hardware as a bluff.