Like death and taxes, one of the few certainties we can count on in the current administration is that for every moronic, dangerous, incomprehensible, or self-serving action taken by Donald Trump, one can find a tweet he sent before becoming president warning against doing literally the exact same thing. Whether it’s mocking Barack Obama for having three chiefs of staff in less than three years when he himself lost his first in six months and is currently on lucky number three; warning of a recession when the economy added fewer than 300k jobs a month and then saying nothing when his number came in at 235k; the optics of campaigning during a hurricane; the wisdom of striking Syria; or the appropriateness of golfing while running the country, there is, as they say, “always a tweet.” Such that, were Trump to choke on a Big Mac and require the Heimlich maneuver, you could probably find a tweet he sent in 2011 or 2012 declaring that only fat slobs choke on their Big Macs.

Knowing all this, it should come as little surprise that after killing top Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, which his critics have called a “reckless,” “dangerous escalation” that “brings us closer to another disastrous war in the Middle East that could cost countless lives and trillions more dollars,” there were numerous tweets to be found (plus a video shot in his Trump Tower office!) in which Trump—who, incidentally, is running for a second term and facing impeachment and removal from office—warned that Obama would start a war with Iran in order to get reelected.

Naturally, Obama’s actual reelection didn’t stop Trump from continuing his thesis:

Anyway, after taking out Soleimani and potentially starting a war with Iran, Trump spent yesterday evening and most of Friday morning illustrating what an international conflict might look like with him at the helm. That’s to say he’s retweeted praise from his own fans, pinned clip art to his timeline, and...whatever this is:

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