I realize that talking of Trump is largely a waste of breath, but the Iran non-strike brings me to comment. Here is a quoted tweet from WaPo: Sure, it's the Post so just dismiss it as fake news but I suppose others saw the tweet as well. So where are we? If we take this literally, it seems that ten minutes before the strike it occurred to DT that a military strike on Iran might lead to some deaths. A normally intelligent ten year old would understand that a military strike might lead to some deaths. It is really not possible that this occurred to Trump just ten minutes before the actual strike. Is it? Ah yes, but in the 2016 campaign we were frequently told by supporters that it is a mistake to take Trump literally. Well, that has turned out to be very true, and perhaps even beyond anyone's wildest dreams or nightmares. The world watches as we move toward what would be a horrific war and our president announces that ten minutes before the strike he realized that someone might get killed so he called it off. If taken at his word he sounds like a moron, but of course no one takes him at his word at all, not on this, not on anything. Maybe the drone was in international waters, maybe not, the one thing that is clear is that nobody is going to form an opinion on this matter by listening to Donald Trump. The man's words on any matter at all are simply irrelevant. Trump supporters love this, for reasons I cannot imagine. Trump Derangement Syndrome they call it. People getting upset simply because, at a time of national peril, our president lies with a straight face and them lies some more. This is where we are. Whether the issue is what day of the week it is, or a matter of grave national importance, nobody with an ounce of sense believes anything that our president says. I realize his supporters see this as one of Trump's strengths. I don't.