I mean, there's just no case I can understand that it explains why he did this on the merits.

So that to me leads to the second option for why he did it, which is that he hates Obama.

Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hassan, and I'll be trying this week to understand why Donald Trump made this mad decision on Tuesday.

I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.

So what happens now? My guest this week is the host of Pod Save the World and co-founder of the Crooked Media Podcasting Empire, Tommy Vita, who also served as National Security Council spokesman under President Obama,

who of course is the one who negotiated the nuclear deal that Trump just trashed.

To sort of throw that strategy out the window without anything to replace it, does feel like a partisan dogmatic stupid thing to do from the, you know, Neal Kahn's in the White House now.

Before I get to that interview, this week I want to try and do something different.

Recently I was watching Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do an entire PowerPoint presentation on the Iran deal,

and on why the Iranians are supposedly lying and cheating, which was basically designed for Donald Trump to watch and lap up.

The President of the United States was BB's audience of one.

Now, I know it's too late, Trump's made his decision, but I want to try and do the same as BB.

I want to try and speak directly to the President of the United States today, because obviously he's a deconstructed listener,

and explain to him as simply as possible why his announcement on Tuesday was so monumentally disastrous and self-destructive.

So here we go.

Mr. President, if you're listening, I want to talk to you about your decision to breach the Iran deal, because I think you've been kind of misled by some of the people around you,

especially the guy with the mustache.

And I know you must be busy with golf games to play and porn stars to pay off, so I'm going to keep this as simple and to the point as possible.

Mr. President, the Iran nuclear deal, the JCPOA was working, and it wasn't just working, it was in the national security interest of the United States.

Don't take my word for it.

Listen to your own defense secretary, retired general James Mattis, who you love, by the way.

Secretary Mattis, who is doing a great job, thank you.

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