The Idiocy of the deluded Emperor Donald

• I prefer to associate with dumb people. They make me feel better about myself.
• Smart people don’t like me.
• [Responding to a question re rising pump prices] Look at these large fotos of my beautiful ballroom that the world has been waiting 75 years for.

Reality

• Contradictory messaging from the Trump Team has hit the point of absurdity. [Not to mention delusion]. 
• Trump threatens destruction of Iran’s electricity generation and oil facilities. [which are war crimes].
• The WSJ reports a temporary TACO on trying to force open the Strait of Hormuz

Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage. Really worth reading, if you haven’t already done so.

The US military is never coming back from this.

Quotes:

• If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences.
• Iran has proved the victor in the art of the deal.
• Trump is bound but he is not gagged. His spin cycle revolves hour by hour from vague threats to invisible olive branches.
• It is precious to see Marco Rubio carry on about Iran violating international law via its choke-hold on the Strait of Hormuz after the US has repeatedly and loudly embraced a might-makes-right, blood-and-claw foreign policy, replacing our prettier and actually, at times, constrained “rules based order”