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Telling a foreign country on social media at 3:00 in the morning that your country is “locked and loaded and ready to go” is neither intelligent nor strategic. Yet that’s exactly what U.S. President Donald Trump did on his Truth Social in the middle of Thursday night.

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Trump, who seems determined to become the bull in the world’s china shop, warned the Iranian regime that if it “violently kills peaceful protestors … the United States of America will come to their (the protestors’) rescue.

The world might be a safer place if someone could give Trump a sleeping pill now and then, so he is not up at 3:00 a.m. sharing threats and brain flatulence on his social media platform.

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