On the fifth day of the Iran war, March 4, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had a defiant message for America’s enemies.
“The terrorists made a bet that President Trump would be like many of his predecessors — that he would just talk, and he would refuse to enforce his clear red lines,” she began. “But that has proven to be a catastrophic error in judgment.”
“President Trump does not bluff,” Leavitt added.
That was already a suspect message, given Trump’s demonstrated history of empty threats and blown deadlines on the Russia-Ukraine war.
But the last five weeks, perhaps more than any other period in Trump’s two terms as president, have revealed him for the bluffer that he is — and on one of the largest and most significant scales imaginable.
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