Bill Otis is right: Trump’s brand — to the extent he ever had one — is now… dead.
No one — not even his MAGA faithful believe a single word he says, any longer. And Iran is using him like an old yellow dishrag: beat; rinse and repeat.
Here’s Bill’s correctly caustic take:
…The problem is not primarily that the public doesn’t know what Trump’s war aims are; the primary problem is that, so far as the actual evidence shows, Trump has no clue about what his own aims are. He (mostly) says that it’s to ensure that Iran never builds or obtains The Bomb, but he can’t help knowing that Iran will pursue a nuclear weapon no matter what it promises….
Still, Trump is the President. A President’s leadership is desperately needed.
But Trump has squandered the essential components of leadership by, inter alia, his absurd self-absorption, his relentless exaggeration, his rogue interference with, among other things, the Justice Department (see, e.g., his latest ego-laden flare-up with US Attorney Jeanine Pirro about the Reflecting Pool), and perhaps most importantly for present purposes his failure to make any sustained, serious attempt to explain to the country why the Iranian threat is so serious and why it would be foolhardy and dangerous to continue to kick the can down the road.
And there’s one other dreadfully corrosive problem: The handicapping of our ability to trust that we’re getting the truth — from Trump… or his domestic opponents… from anyone….
You guys sure did pick a winner — twice. Damn.
Out.
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