The Malignant Fascist's Stunning Flip Flops

Here are just a few quotes on the "deal" voiced yesterday by the weak and unstable Malignant Fascist in a press conference after the G7 meeting in France. They are the polar opposite of what he claimed our goals in attacking Iran were, standing firmly with Israel, and the impact of a Strait of Hormuz closure would be (emphasis added):

On Iran maintaining ballistic missile capabilities:

“I mean, they have to have some, because other people have some. You got to have some,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. 

“I like some of these guys, but I … don’t think they’re smart. ‘Sir, you shouldn’t let them have any missile,’” the president said of unnamed advisers. “I said, ‘well, what am I going to do? Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles, but they can’t have them?’ ‘Yes, sir.’”  

“Doesn’t work that way, you know, it doesn’t work that way, and missiles aren’t the problem,” Trump said, adding that missiles “hurt a little location, but they don’t blow up the planet.”

On Israel and Lebanon:

“We have a little dispute over Lebanon,” Trump said, referring to Netanyahu.

“I say you can do a little softer touch, Bibi. You don’t have to knock down a building every time somebody walks into it that’s from Hezbollah,” the president continued. 

“I’m not saying they shouldn’t protect themselves. I’m saying when two drones are shot into the desert and drop harmlessly, you don’t have to knock down buildings in Beirut.”

On whether the U.S. is impacted by Persian Gulf oil:

“We run out of reserves at about four weeks,” Trump said. “You know, there are reserves all over the world, and we would really run out, and there’ll be a time when you wouldn’t be able to get it.” 

He said it would be “bedlam” if the oil ran out. 

“What this does is it allows the ships to go,” he said of the Iran deal. “If we keep bombing, those ships won’t be going.”

For someone who creates his own "reality" and has no fixed principles or values beyond asking what's good for me, this comes as no surprise that his interest is in protecting his hide for the mid-terms and trying to sell a "deal" that three months ago he would have angrily derided. For those having to negotiate with this dangerous ignoramus, never assume he's dealing with you from any principled position.