He was going to give Iran two weeks.....

[Doodley]

[Emile]

1. I think by now everyone knows everything he says are lies.

[Doodley]

6. Correct. It was a threat that could be negotiated away in two weeks, and then it wasn't.

[Shellback Squid]

2. The world now knows, without a doubt, he's not a man of his word, cannot be trusted with anything

[lame54]

3. He will definitely...

Brag about the 3d chess move

[spanone]

4. No one will ever trust America again, ever.

Did he warn our allies?

[Javaman]

8. What allies?

He’s pissed them all off

[electricmonk]

5. Probably saw everyone making fun of him

and had to do something to make himself feel strong. Like Hillary said, "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons."

[Igel]

7. That's the reporters' words.

His words were "within two weeks."

Is 3 days within 2 weeks?

As one pundit put it yesterday, saying "within 2 weeks" leads to ambiguity--maybe there's up to two weeks! Which means something much less carries just a small bit of surprise.

Probably not in this case, to be sure, but everybody seemed to think that increased preparations would be necessary as that two week window came to a close. Not that there was a two-week window and any time it was open a bomber could fly through it.

Trump's ambiguity is sometimes infuriating. But he's usually more ambiguous than what he says would imply. (Although there's a lot of "I might" utterances taken to mean "I certainly will," then when "might" turns out to mean "might not" there's all kinds of comments. As I've said before, "X may happen" logically entails "X may not happen.&quot