Michael Knowles

Praise be to Allah, Donald J. Trump.

I pointed out the tweet was not, as some said, reckless.

It was a disciplined tweet.

The proof that it was a disciplined tweet, it was a treat too, on Easter Sunday, no less.

The proof that it was disciplined was in that last line, that dry humor, praise be to Allah.

The tweet was saying, open the straight.

I want you to open the straight of Hormuz and we'll get to the now open straight, which Trump got us in the sixth week.

But

The tweet was mocking the diction of the Iranians because the Iranians are the ones who are always saying, the great Satan will go down in a ball of flame and la la la.

That's how the Iranians talk.

And so Trump, who speaks in different ways, depending on the circumstance, sometimes he's a little more diplomatic, sometimes he's a little more blunt.

But he did the Iranian thing.

He said,

We're going to rain down fire on you.

You're going to be living in hell.

You're all going to be gone.

And he let you know that that was what he was doing with that final ironic line.

Praise be to Allah.

Yeah, okay.

Maybe I got to talk your language, Iranians.