Alistair Campbell

They were kind of human beings trying to work something out.

And we're back to the point that we talked about a few weeks ago, this sort of belief in their omnipotence.

They've worked out what's going to happen.

They go in there.

They say what they want to happen.

It doesn't happen.

And they throw their toys out the pram.

I was talking to a kind of American former diplomat yesterday who was saying that he could work out how you could solve most of these problems.

It would involve going back to some of the stuff that Federica's talking about in her piece in Foreign Affairs.

But he says right now, he finds it very hard to work out how this Straits of Hormuz thing gets worked out at all, unless Trump backs down.

And Trump, as we know, doesn't like backing down.

But so much of this is about what goes on inside his brain.

And this is what makes it so difficult.

Let's just take one night.

Okay.

So this is a guy who, it seems, has a real problem sleeping.

With gratitude to a gentleman on social media by the name of Harry Sisson.

He did a timeline of all the social media activity of Trump over the course of a night, not a daytime over the night.

Okay, here we go.

First of all, 9.49 p.m., he posts the famous picture of him as Jesus, which he now says is him as a doctor.