Trump orders an air strike, then cancels it, spinning a story with another “sir” anecdote like at his rallies, because anyone calling him “sir” must mean he has some authority and its utterer is subservient to him.
Bad Actor. Like the contractual demand that he be given a appearance in every movie shot in his buildings, Trump is a Hollywood extra in world history, not knowing the difference between bombing a site and looking like a sight.
As if ambivalence about approving retaliation was presidential only when reminded that a drone was shot down, but more likely Iran told him that it wouldn’t agree to talk. We’re now at the moment when Oliver Stone directs an Aaron Sorkin script.
President Andrew Shepherd: What I did tonight was not about political gain.
Leon Kodak: Yes sir. But it can be, sir. What you did tonight was very presidential.
President Andrew Shepherd: Leon, somewhere in Libya right now, a janitor's working the night shift at Libyan Intelligence headquarters. He's going about doing his job... because he has no idea that in about an hour he's going to die in a massive explosion. He's just going about his job, because he has no idea that about an hour ago I gave an order to have him killed. You've just seen me do the least presidential thing I do.