
The disconnect inside Donald Trump’s White House has never been more glaring. While aides have spent weeks trying to deescalate and find an exit ramp for the president in Iran, the man has developed a habit of torching every diplomatic goodwill with a single Truth Social post.
Trump, whose first year in office has already been a nightmare, with one catastrophe after another threatening the safety and stability of the world — his Greenland ambitions, the methodical dismantling of the NATO alliance, the illegal war in Iran — unlocked new levels of unhinged this Sunday by threatening to blow up a country’s entire power grid and bridges.