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Trump's Economic D-Day Threat Over Iran Branded A 'Complete S**t Show'
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President Trump posted a lengthy Truth Social threat of what he called an 'ECONOMIC D-DAY' against Iran, warning that any nation aiding Tehran's financial institutions, businesses, or airports would face 'TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences.' The post came just hours after he had described the Iran situation as 'so good.'
Commentators noted that Iran's largest trading partners include China and Russia, countries Trump has previously praised and over which the U.S. has limited leverage. CNN's Fareed Zakaria pointed out that meaningfully isolating Iran would require sanctioning China, risking retaliation such as cutting off rare-earth exports the U.S. depends on.
Critics on social media, including commentators and posters, called the threat unlikely to be enforced, pointing to Trump's history of walking back similar ultimatums against Iran.
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✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
The pattern here is a threat that arrives in all capitals and departs in silence, which is a rhetorical strategy in roughly the same way that shouting at weather is a strategy. An ultimatum you have no intention of enforcing against parties you have no leverage over is not foreign policy, it is a press release with a countdown clock painted on. The tell is that the situation was excellent right up until the moment it required an apocalypse.
