Three days into the war with Iran and President Trump is sullen, refusing to talk to reporters, and clearly freaked out that matters aren’t going his way in Persia.
He thought that, by now, he could find the Iranian equivalent of Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez, the VP “turncoat” to Nicolas Maduro who is now running things to the beat of Donald Trump and crew in the South American nation.
What a frustrated Trump is suffering from I’ve labeled “Turncoat Derangement Syndrome,” or another form of TDS, now virulent in many forms in the White House. (A little over a week ago, Trump succumbed to another TDS — Tariff Derangement Syndrome — when the Supreme Court stripped him of willy-nilly authority to raise tariffs whenever he saw fit, for whatever reason.)
On the flight back to D.C. aboard Air Force One, Trump stayed locked in his cabin, not interacting with reporters. Deboarding Air Force One, he was still sullen and didn’t interact with reporters; the same happened when the Marine One helicopter landed at the White House.
Shouts of “find my Iranian Delcy” could be heard emanating from the Oval Office as the president huddled with aides after his return from the weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump went into this Iranian bombardment campaign thinking it would be Venezuela redux. Drop some bombs, eliminate some hanchos, and then someone would emerge to talk turkey with Trump and agree to run things in return for a cessation of bombing – and for his or her being the head Iranian honcho.
That person has yet to emerge. Everything was to be wrapped up in three or four days, but now it looks like even three or four weeks of military strikes against Iran might not even do the trick.
i hate to say it, or even admit it, but Trump may need Emmanuel Macron to make overtures to Iran’s leaders, whoever they currently are. That, however, could lead to another onset of TDS — Trust Derangement Syndrome.
Delcy of Iran, where are you? Your president is calling.
