No. of Recommendations: 7
How did Trump get elected? By telling people what they wanted to hear. What did he do after the election? Stab them in the back.
True. I just think you're mistaken about who the people getting stabbed in the back in this scenario are.
Trump has been telling MAGA, the Iran war hawks, the other Gulf State leaders, and Israel supporters (and Israeli officials themselves) that he was going to solve the security threats posed by Iran. That's because he thought it would be easy. Obama was weak and stupid and didn't realize how strong our military was, so the U.S. can just force Iran to give us everything that we (and Israel and the Gulf States) want.
But as soon as that started causing problems for Trump, he's stabbing them in the back. I mean, he wants to be the guy who finally fixed Iran - but not if it means he's going to get blamed for touching off another Great Recession. So when the choice is between his interests and the interests of all those other groups....well, you know. He's a JC after all.
Trump doesn't want Iran to push the global economy into a worldwide recession. Before the war, he failed to anticipate that they had the power to do that - everyone else knew that, of course, but he's a bit of a slow study. But now he knows it. So "Bibi" and Mark Dubowitz and Lindsey Graham and everyone else who wants Trump to finish what he started can now take their seats under the bus (along with the American people who are out hundreds of billions of dollars because of this debacle).
It's a bitter pill for Iran hawks and folks who believed the stories of how the Israeli government secretly had a huge amount of control over Trump. But no one's immune from getting stabbed in the back by Trump once it's in his interest to do so.
