Rachel Maddow

And we only learned about that phone call because the Kremlin told us about it.

The White House didn't announce it.

The Kremlin did.

Did the White House even know Trump was doing that before the Kremlin told everybody it had happened?

Did Trump just call Putin from his flip phone?

Was it while he was playing golf?

Was it even in the White House calendar that today was the day Trump was supposed to check in with his boss?

Gulf War III continues.

Gulf War I was because Iraq invaded Kuwait and we wanted to make them uninvade Kuwait.

Gulf War II was because the George W. Bush administration wanted somewhere else to invade besides Afghanistan, so they made up a fantasy about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction when they didn't.

Gulf War III is now, and Donald Trump started it, but for Gulf War III, there is still no coherent explanation from the President or the White House as to what exactly this is all for.

Not even an obviously pretextual false reason like we had from George W. Bush.

The president did unveil a new purported justification for the war today in his rambling press conference at his golf thing.

He said, quote, we're doing this for the other parts of the world.

We're doing this for the other parts of the world.

It's actually hard to argue with that one.

That one might actually be true.

The Wall Street Journal is now describing this as the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

CNBC calls it the biggest oil supply disruption in history.

Because there is no way to safely move it to market, Saudi Arabia has now cut its production of oil.