Michael Knowles

And so the criticism is, well, this means you can't trust what Trump says.

But I don't think that's true.

I think you can trust what Trump says if you know what he means.

And so, yes, no reasonable person thought that Trump was going to drop

multiple nuclear weapons on Iran and genocide the entire population.

So no one thinks he's going to do that.

But people do think he might do something.

And this is one of the arguments for some strikes in Iran.

Again, I'm a skeptic on the strikes.

But one of the arguments for it is Trump is a dove.

He advocates for peace.

He doesn't want to get in these quagmires.

And then he kills Soleimani or he drops the Moab or he takes out Maduro or

Or in this case, he takes out the Ayatollah, the most senior Muslim leader in the world.

And he does these things that allow him to maintain some unpredictability.

So with that tweet that he sent out, he goes, open the effing straits or you'll all be living in hell.

Praise be to Allah.

To me, what I really liked about that tweet is it seemed very disciplined.

It seemed reckless at first, but when you read that dry humor line at the end, all praise to Allah, you can see he's being disciplined here and he's mocking the way that they speak.

The Iranians are the ones who I say-