Michael Weiss

Those are some George W. Bush numbers right there.

I wouldn't overthink it.

I think it's sort of bound up with Donald Trump's own psychology and his own sense of his importance on the world stage, right?

I mean, the economy is doing poorly.

Probably this is his last term.

We haven't heard much about him being president for life in quite a while.

So for him, what's his legacy?

He didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize, which he wanted badly because Barack Obama got it.

He solved 8, 9, 10, 12 wars except Ukraine, but that's imminent.

Any day now, that's going to be resolved.

If he can claim that he delivered the hammer blow to the Islamic Republic of Iran, whether by assassinating the supreme leader –

or taking out the upper echelon at the IRGC, or we already obliterated the nuclear program, so I guess he could re-obliterate it, or more significantly than that, actually, would be destroying the missile capabilities of Iran.

One of the reasons it's taken weeks and months to assemble the assets in place in the Gulf is to withstand the retaliation that would come in the form of short and mid-range ballistic missiles, which the Iranians have...

in excess.

Right.

But for him, remember Tim, this is not a guy who, who likes war properly speaking.

He likes acts of war.

He likes the spectacle of war saying that he's dropped massive bombs and ordinance on something and then declaring victory.

So why is he doing this?

I think for the sake of doing it and saying that he's resolved the