A February 11th White House situation room meeting that featured – wait for it – a fucking video presentation by Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu and his team as their pitch on how easy it would be to effect regime change in Iran was all convicted felon President Trump needed to be sold on committing American lives and treasure to the rogue state’s campaign against a regional foe an ocean-plus away from Washington and cause a global-scale fuckup, the New York Times reports in a preview of their Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s upcoming book, “Regime Change.”
After the Israelis left, some of the president’s top minions were not as impressed. “Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling,” said chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the plan “farcical.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio then jumped in and said the presentation was “bullshit,” the Times’s sequence of the exchange carrying the implication that Trump doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “farcical.” Further down in their recount of the internal deliberations, the Times provides another insight into presidential incapacity with “One person familiar with their interactions noted that Mr Trump had a habit of confusing tactical advice from General Caine with strategic counsel. In practice, that meant the general might warn in one breath about the difficulties of one aspect of the operation, then in the next note that the United States had an essentially unlimited supply of cheap, precision-guided bombs and could strike Iran for weeks once it achieved air superiority.”
Which is like Caine saying it would be very expensive to build a rollercoaster that goes from Miami to San Diego but we have a lot of steel manufacturing capacity, so it is technically possible, and then Trump thinking that Caine had advised him to build the roller Miami-to-San Diego rollercoaster.