I really wish journalists world stop pretending Trump is guided by anything but impulse and id. He's a toddler with no object permanence.
We're governed by the lizard-brained impulses of a mad king, and the unwillingness of legacy media to acknowledge that reality is a big part of why we're here.
"President Donald Trump is no JFK," David Ignatius writes.
"But he just did something in the Iran crisis that reminds me a bit of Kennedy’s decision to step away from the cacophony of ExComm and explore options."
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Opinion | Could Trump apply JFK’s Cuban missile crisis playbook to Iran?
The president’s pause in the Iran crisis reminds me of Kennedy’s decision to pull back from hawkish advisers.