You will not be terribly surprised to learn from Semafor that convicted felon President Trump’s minions attempted to talk him out of his batshit plan to charge tolls for ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
“This is what he’s always wanted to do, but people tried to talk him out of it,” a White House official said. “To him, this was his instinctual decision always, and he’s sort of just come back around to it.”