Hey, it's Will Salatin from the bulwark. So if you were hosting the Japanese prime minister at the

White House, as Donald Trump was doing today, and you wanted Japan's help in this war you started

with Iran, which you didn't consult Japan or any other allies about, what is the dumbest thing

you could bring up? If you said Pearl Harbor, you win. Yes,

Donald Trump brought up Pearl Harbor with the Japanese prime minister in the Oval Office today.

But that was just the dumbest of a bunch of dumb things Trump said during this session at the White

House. Let me take you through it. Here is the first

thing, the first dumb thing Trump said. It was that he decided on his own to basically take down

the U.S. economy. Here's what he said. Everything was going great. The economy is great. Oil prices

were very low. Gasoline was dropping to, I mean, we had

$1.99, $1.85. We had great everything. And I saw what was happening in Iran, and I said,

I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it. And I actually thought the

numbers would be worse. I thought that it would go up more than it did.

But we're doing this excursion. And when it's completed, we're going to have a much safer world.

So the first thing to notice here is Trump keeps using the word I. I did it. Everything was great.

The economy was great. Everything was cool. But I said, I have to go do this war

with Iran. Now, you might remember the last time there was an economic crisis under Trump. It was

COVID, right? And he kept saying, the China virus came in. It was the Chinese and their virus that

wrecked our economy. I was doing great.

This time, he's right out there saying, no, no, it's me.

It's me.

I decided to go to war with Iran.

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