Saagar Enjeti

You have the you can reserve the opportunity to later on be like, listen, I told them that it wasn't a great idea.

And sure enough, we were vindicated.

Let me go and put this next quote up on the screen here to dig a little bit more into this piece.

They write in The Wall Street Journal when one advisor this is about the praise be to praise be to Allah Easter Sunday tweet.

So load that into your head as Crystal goes.

Very true.

When one advisor later asked Trump about that tweet, he said he came up with the Allah idea himself.

He said he wanted to seem as unstable and insulting as possible.

Believing it could bring the Iranians to the table, senior administration officials said, it was a language, he said, the Iranians would understand.

But he was also concerned about the fallout.

How's it playing?

So he, you know, I guess his idea is to behave like a lunatic.

And if he is, in fact, just acting like a lunatic, he is doing a convincing job of that because many people, even within this administration, are like, maybe he genuinely is a lunatic with the many truth socials that he's been putting out.

We just had another whole 37 in a small period of time, and a bunch of them were repeat posts where he's just posting the same thing over and over again.

So he does act like a maniac, I will give him that.

Yeah, very hard to moralize about Iranian attacks on civilian infrastructure or even position yourself as like on the moral high ground.

when the President of the United States is literally threatening to kill an entire civilization.

And now it's just routine that he threatens overt war crimes on a daily basis.

Him, Pete Hegseth, etc.

That's just part of their approach here.