Jon Lovett

We are a bit like yoked to his kind of capricious attention.

And so...

We did just run through a huge cycle of him unleashing chaos in Minnesota, the deaths of two Americans.

That kind of ebbs because Noam is fired and we're going to get Mark Wayne Mullen to right the ship.

And then all of a sudden we're in a war.

We're in a war situation.

In Iran, right?

The version you're describing where he's cornered and doing terrible and dangerous things is happening in front of us.

And then now your mind goes to nuclear weapons.

But meanwhile, we've created chaos in the Middle East and caused all kinds of global economic problems that will certainly ripple and hit us.

So yeah, I think you're right.

Of course, that's something to worry about.

What a strange few weeks in terms of what he's been asking from people.

So he starts the war.

Who knows what they thought would happen.

Obviously, the fact that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz was an extremely predicted and predictable result.

So whether he was told that and didn't understand how serious it would be, whether he was convinced by like Hegseth or someone else that you would never get that far because they would so quickly eviscerate the regime that it would be like Venezuela and we'd just be kind of talking to new and more reasonable people and everything would move on.

Who knows?

But after the fact, he goes to all of these countries and says, we've got a real problem in the Strait of Hormuz.

I need you to jump in there.