We spent, I spent, I'm sure you spent, the entire day wondering if the president of the United States was about to order a genocidal attack on a country of 93 million people.

I mean, just sit with that for a moment.

I know that he says all sorts of crazy things, but that is what he threatened this morning.

This morning, the president issued

a threat to the entire population of Iran saying, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight,

never to be brought back again if Iran did not meet his latest deadline to reopen the Strait

of Hormuz by 8 p.m. tonight. Now, most of the world treated a threat to wipe out an entire

civilization with the horror and the disgust that something like that deserves. But we

also saw efforts to play into the president's desperate theatrics, treating this

whole thing like it was some sort of a primetime TV reality show.

Fox Business Channel and at least one Israeli news outlet even had countdown clocks.

You can see them on your screen right there ticking away, the seconds until the president's deadline for the indiscriminate mass murder he had threatened.

Will or he won't?

Will he or won't he?

You know, that was what they were

asking all day. So those clocks were ticking away. Two in a day to find out. We'll see what

happens. Well, tonight just an hour and a half before his self-imposed deadline, Trump backed down

and managed to justify a form of an off-ramp for himself.

And a post on his social media account,

Trump said he had agreed to, quote,

suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of,

you guessed it two weeks.

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