Hi, everyone. Happy Monday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Donald Trump is finding out that it is not easy

to get yourself out of a war you started with no endgame insight in the first place. In the face

of failed peace talks at a fragile ceasefire in place,

Donald Trump is choosing to escalate tensions and worsen the global oil crisis with a

blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Hours after the marathon peace talks with Tehran fell apart

over the weekend. Donald Trump announced that starting this morning, the U.S. Navy will block the entire strait. U.S. Central Command later had to step back from Donald Trump announced that starting this morning, the U.S. Navy will block the entire straight.

U.S. Central Command later had to step back from Donald Trump's threat to do that,

stating that U.S. forces would merely block ships going to and from Iranian ports.

Still, by any measure, it is a dangerous escalation of the war, both militarily and economically. On that, the Wall Street Journal

reports this, quote, the move opens a volatile new phase in the six-week conflict, shifting from

punishing strikes on military targets to an open-ended campaign to police the straight. The prospect of

such a blockade could set off a high-stakes

battle that tests which side has the higher threshold for pain, Tehran or global markets.

That economic pain is already being felt with the price of oil surging past $100 a barrel as soon as

the blockade was announced. But here's how Donald Trump

tried to spin it and downplay the major economic impact of his war in an interview on Fox

News yesterday. The stock market has not gone down very much at all, got down a little bit,

much less than I thought. And frankly, the gas

hasn't gone up as much as I thought. But regardless, even if it did, we have to stop this

group of people from having, and again, it was worse because Comani was a total, you know, radical

I'll be nice, maniac.

He was a maniac.

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