Trump Outrage Watch: Iran Edition -- TACO Tuesday (and Wednesday) (and Thursday)...
Mort Kondracke
Donald Trump doubtless thinks he scared the daylights out of Iran with his threats, causing its rulers to cave in and agree to a ceasefire after seeing him post “a whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again” unless Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz.
But I have a different theory: he had the daylights scared out of him by
a spike in oil prices, causing an increase in average gasoline prices in the U.S. from $2.98 a gallon to $3.94.
A drop in stock prices by 2 percent.
And an increase in the inflation rate from 2.4 percent to 3.4 percent, with forecasts for the rest of the year up to 4.5 percent.
https://www.postalley.org/2026/04/11/trump-outrage-watch-iran-edition-taco-tuesday-and-wednesday-and-thursday/