Mayor Mamdani tweeted out, happy Eastern New York. Today, millions of New Yorkers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the victory of hope over despair and faith over fear. The Muslim Socialists and the Christian president said today will be a power plant day. Bridge Day all all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the F and straight. Or you'll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. Talk about threats. That's a spicy one. What was your initial reaction seeing that tweet?

It is more of what I come to expect from the president much to my dismay. I really do miss the

era of a president being presidential. I won't lie. I find this stuff morbidly hilarious.

Emphasis on the morbidly. So there is an entertainment value. There's a shock value to be sure. But, you know, when you're talking about human life, this stuff all gets very dark way, way, way too fast. So I couldn't believe it. It was one of those. I had to fact check it. I was like, there's no way. That's what it actually said, right? Like this is because people write tweets in his voice all the time. But yep, that one actually does seem to be real. He's like at the beginning of this term, you could see he was trying to be restrained. He dropped the one F bomb. And it was like, oh my God, it's a big deal. Like, can you believe the president said that? And then you see how far it's gotten. And clearly this is somebody who's building a mental map of the Iranians

as being completely unwilling to negotiate, willing to let their country just be burned to the ground.

We started to get this sense of what the Trump administration's mental map was of this whole process

when Whitkoff said, you know, we can't believe that they haven't capitulated. So we're sending all this

hardware, all of these troops, everything over into the region, and they're just not doing anything

with it. Once we could see, that's where they're mapping all of this stuff out, is they're being

unreasonable, that they're, you should be able to build up force, hold a club

to somebody's head, put a gun in their face, and they react in a prescripted way. And the fact that

they're not reacting that way, I think is very shocking to Trump. And so we're seeing that in this

latest tweet. The praise be to Allah part is what spun a lot of people out. Not the you crazy bastards, you'll be living in

hell, all that. The praise be to Allah. It admittedly is an amusing choice, but nonetheless,

Trump has now extended the power plant and bridge day deadline three times, something like two or

three times. The current cutoff is Tuesday, April 8th at 8 p.m. Eastern. We'll see if that holds.

Iran has made it clear. It has no intention of meeting that deadline. On Sunday, Trump told the

Wall Street Journal, if they don't do something by Tuesday evening, they won't have any power

plans and they won't have any bridges standing. Trump backs up the things that he claims, even when it seems absolutely

politically suicidal. If he does not see some sort of off-ramp, you can expect him to push forward

with that. I'll be very surprised, however, if he doesn't extend this again pretty substantively,

if he's seeing cues that he has somebody that he can work with.

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