This concept has then been brought up for each subsequent president, multiple times for Donald Trump, including in April 2017 when he conducted airstrikes against Syria during an investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Then in January 2020, after a U.S. airstrike assassination of Iran's General Qasem Soleimani occurred during Trump's impeachment process, various references to Wag the dog made the news.