Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said he signed an executive order imposing “hard hitting” sanctions on Iran that will deny Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his office “and many others” access to financial instruments.

“Today’s actions follow a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian regime in recent weeks, including shooting down of US drones,” Trump said, flanked by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Vice President Mike Pence. “The supreme leader of Iran is one who ultimately is responsible of the hostile conduct of the regime. He’s respected within his country. His office oversees the regime’s most brutal instruments including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”

By now, I suspect it’s pretty darn clear to most people AROUND THE WORLD that the Only thing Trump has ever “mastered” is the art of *FAILURE.* Indeed, FAILURE is probably the only thing he actually comprehends that’s why it comes so easy to him. The fact that he’s spent his whole life FAILING FORWARD…never having to take responsibility for his many Failures…means WE can expect more -a lot more – of the same from the guy. He brings absolutely Nothing else to the table. Just endless lies and Failure.

DJ asked: “Are US allies correct that Trump and the US are now compromised on the world stage for making a strong threat that eventually turned out to be an empty dud, and for canceling a former deal that is now desperately needed?”

Yes….and Yes.

Apparently,, it got a little interesting last Friday evening on Faux Noise with Tucker Carlson’s verbal take-down of John Bolton (Trump’s National Security Adviser). Carlson called Bolton “a bureaucratic tapeworm.” “Try as you might you can’t expel him. He seems to live forever in the bowels of federal agencies; periodically re-emerging to cause pain and suffering but critically somehow never suffering himself.”

Just a little history: Bolton and his sick ilk are the NeoCons who bamboozled G. Dubya into invading Iraq without Just cause. Mostly chicken-hawks, that cowardly lot LIED their sick azzez off about Saddam having WMDs. And If that wasn’t reason enough to lock their azzez up for life they’ve been salivating over the prospect of “overthrowing” the government Iran FOR YEARS… assuring the gullible and dimwitted that the “overthrow of the Mullahs in Tehran” would be a cakewalk….just like Iraq/facetious.

Excerpt:
Bolton is fine with the outcome in Iraq too. That wasn’t a disaster. According to John Bolton it was a raging success. We killed hundreds of thousands of (INNOCENT) people lost thousands of our own troops, spent more than a trillion dollars all to eliminate a WMD threat that (despite John Bolton’s assurances), NEVER existed in the first place. Bolton is glad we did all that. Really happy about it. That’s demented. Normal people don’t talk like that. There’s nothing normal about John Bolton. […]- Tucker Carlson

If you’re inclined, here is the video: “Tucker Carlson Criticizes John Bolton On Iran”