Dan Bongino

So when he says he's going to blow up an entire civilization, you know this guy.

He cares about human life.

The last thing he wants is some big power vacuum and more terrorism in the Middle East.

He wants to settle up and he wants to serve the American people.

But on the maximalist position he takes, 100% tariffs, civilizations are going to be wiped out in Iran, North Korea, my nuclear button is bigger than yours.

Remember that one?

The maximalist position only works because...

you don't know if he's bluffing or not.

In other words, like let's say he hadn't killed Soleimani, given the order to kill Soleimani, hadn't wiped out those Russian mercs on the Syrian battlefield, the Wagner Group folks back in his first term, if he hadn't went and ordered the military to swipe Maduro from freaking Venezuela, if he hadn't engaged in Midnight Hammer and these other Iranian war activities we've been involved in for the last four to six weeks,

The maximalist position would not be an effective debating or excuse me, negotiation tactic.

It only works because he is so freaking unpredictable.

And when Putin hears like, hey, this guy could bomb Moscow, Moscow, Putin's probably sitting there like, is this mother?

Is he serious or not?

Like they don't really know.

That's why it works.

you know you're right he's so he he he'll start the fight or at least he'll he'll pick up the fight if it's somebody's fighting against him he's a counter puncher as you know uh he'll hit you in the mouth a couple times and then you're like wait is he really gonna finish me off is he really gonna kill me right now like i don't know what this guy's gonna do um and i'll just give you a couple of really clear examples of this where's one earlier this week remember that big press conference he did

when he said that the there was a negotiation underway jd vance steve wickhoff jared kushner were getting closer with iran but suddenly these guys report back to the president hey mr president they're walking away from the table they're breaking the deal here and the president says that's fine tell them it's okay but then tell them look out their window and so they look out the window he blows up the biggest bridge in iran

So in other words, like, you know, there's this weird kind of fascination in the left.

They really want Trump to be weak and broken.

They think he's insane.