The day before President Donald Trump ordered bombs dropped on Iran, he visited a Whataburger in Corpus Christi, Texas, just one of several seemingly innocuous stops in the Lone Star State. He was mostly there to celebrate a dredging project allowing larger ships to come to that city’s port, already the largest gateway for energy imports in the U.S.
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright was also present, as the president and other officials celebrated the first tanker of Venezuelan oil to Corpus Christi. For some reason, a song by Sinéad O’Connor played in the background. “Millions and millions of barrels of oil are pouring right in here. It’s a great thing,” Trump said.
