Gosh, ya think?
Whether such a jaw-dropping threat from an American president pressured Iran to agree to the kind of ceasefire they had previously rejected is uncertain. What is clear is that Trump’s astounding, inflammatory declaration – just two days after a similar obscenity-laced Truth Social demand – is unlike anything a modern US president has ever levelled or hinted at.
And even if the two-week ceasefire does result in a permanent peace, the Iran war – and Trump’s recent words – may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US.
Of course it has. Trump all along has fundamentally altered the way the world views us. It’s fundamentally altered our view right here in the US. It’s injected us with and soaked us in a corrosive horror-filled shame. The corrosion has only gotten worse over time. It’s deeply shaming that such a ridiculous fraudulent childish spoiled brat could get elected before trying to seize power by force, let alone after doing that.
The emptiness, the sadism, the rudeness, the ignorance, the trashiness, the stupidity, the laziness, the corruption, the greed, the conceit, the lust for violence, the hunger for flattery and ass-kissing – all of it has set fire to the way everyone on the planet views us.