I woke up this morning (17 August 2026, in my time zone, actually yesterday by the time I post this now) to find that the five-year-old running the “free” world was having a tantrum and had decided to warn Oman that he was going to “bomb the shit out of them” if they interfered in his talks with Iran.
Yeah, that’s diplomacy in the trump world in the 21st century: tough talking and from the hip.
Do I not believe he’ll do it? No, this has nothing to do with my belief or not. It’s just ridiculous that us plebs should even have to give more than a moment’s attention to the ravings of a child with no war experience and no understanding of history. But here we are; we do have to.
Did he forget that Oman is, (a) not Iran (I know their names share 50% of their letters) and (b) an ally?
We’re approaching the end of what is so far your six-month adventure in Iran, and it’s clear you are clueless. I’m not here in support of Iran, but I’m in favour of not doing anything stupid. And guess what? You’ve proved your stupidity by, as you’ve so cleverly pointed out, doing something no American president before you was stupid enough to do, without an understanding of what could go wrong and with no exit plan. You’ll be here after your midterms and you may still be here after your presidency ends, after hundreds of claims that the Iranians “desperately” want a deal. And you’ll be like Carter, except you’ll be a Republican president handing over power to a Democrat, given how stupid your political system is, just after Iran kicks your sorry ass.
And in Iran, you and your great army haven’t changed the Iranian regime. Yes, you’ve killed a lot of them, but the regime — the organisation that runs the country, the IRGC — still exists and still has a stranglehold on the 92 million inhabitants of the country. I judge you and your armed forces to have completely and utterly failed in that regard.
It seems that, right now, you are flailing and in crisis mode. All the promises you made to your base are crumbling around you, inflation is creeping up again as is to be expected when you look to war and tariffs to support your failing policies, and you’re a nightmare for America. If ever there was an example of someone who should be removed from the presidency before their term ends, you’re it. But that won’t happen as long as all the yes-men in the Republican Party, with whom you surround yourself, keep nodding in agreement with everything you do.
You and they are a disgrace to your country.