Bob Schwartz

In an attempt to explain why nothing is going well and everything is going wrong with his Iran War, including negotiations with Iran that aren’t actually happening, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the Iranian negotiators are “very different and ‘strange’”.

Even for an absurdist yet deadly powerful comic like Trump, this is a statement worth analyzing.

“Different” than whom?

“Strange” in what way?

Different than other Iranians he knows? Different than other negotiators, real or pretend, he has dealt with?

Stranger than what or whom? It is safe to say that nothing and no one around Trump is anything but strange.

Of course, it is possible that in Trump’s mind, which is already challenged and now more challenged by a war he started but can’t control, everything is different and strange. Which might be acceptable and survivable, except if it is the mind of someone capable of setting the world on fire. That would be different and strange.