Even by 2026 standards, the level of cognitive dissonance Donald Trump employs on a daily basis is truly astounding. While protests have erupted across the United States following the tragic killing of Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old American citizen and mother of three gunned down by an ICE agent while driving home after dropping her kid off at school — the president has been busy repeatedly going after Iran’s leadership for the way they’re handling the ongoing unrest in the Middle Eastern country.
Let’s start with the Iran situation, which has Trump dusting off his greatest hits from the foreign policy blunder collection. Protests have been raging across Iran since late December, initially sparked by anger over the country’s ailing economy and the value of the Iranian rial plummeting before morphing into what many are calling the most significant challenge to the local government in years. And when you have Trump as your “president of peace,” the man is never too busy—or too self-aware—for saber-rattling.
