Since returning from the disastrous summit in Helsinki, Donald Trump has been desperately searching for a distraction. On late Sunday evening, he reached for the ultimate attention grabber—threatening war with Iran.
In a tweet delivered ALL CAPS to display his displeasure, Trump addressed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, warning him “never, ever threaten the United States again” and, in a logic twisting exercise of the sort that leads to the failure of villainous movie super computers, Trump threatened to kill people … if there was a threat to kill people.
To make matters even more tangled, it appears that the “threat” Trump was referencing was one in which Rouhani warned the United States shouldn’t start a war with Iran saying, as NBC News reports, that it would be “playing with the lion's tail.” So What Trump called Rouhani’s “demented words of violence and death” were actually a warning that a war between the United States and Iran would be bad. Meanwhile, Trump threatened to start a literal war over words. Words against war.
If Trump’s words seem like a desperate attempt to sound tough, days after his on-stage demeanor with Vladimir Putin left him looking submissive and … even more submissive, that idea certainly has occurred to someone else. Where someone equals Donald Trump.
What’s that again?
Bad predictions… of President Obama.