Anyway, they were “summoned” to observe him presiding over what he no doubt regards as literally “his” military leaders in a setting awesomely evocative of a military dictatorship. There he bleated his line about how this might be the “calm before the storm.” With the focus shifting immediately to trying to figure out what storm he was talking about, we should pause momentarily and ask what calm he is talking about. There hasn’t been a day of calm since Trump took office, and that’s precisely the way he likes it. For Trump, “calm” represents a problem to be fixed. And last night he fixed it, again.

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Now any rational person would take this warning as a predictor of imminent war. And war is where we are destined to arrive with Trump, eventually. But not yet. This threat bore all the markers of yet another of Trump’s insanity-generating atmospherics, from the dinner setting, to the “could be,” to his insulting answer when asked what region he was referring to and he replied “you’ll find out.” When Trump says that, it usually means he doesn’t know yet either. It’s just a tease.

But really? A tease? On the preeminent national concern of war and peace? Where Trump would be sending American soldiers to fight and die? A tease? “You’ll find out”? This is how the president respects Americans’ vital interest in the question of whether we go to war? “You’ll find out”?

It’s the “You’ll find out” quote that people should be focusing on, not the “calm before the storm” part. With Trump there is only storm and more storm.

Trump’s brazenly cavalier attitude to Americans’ rightful role in understanding and deciding issues of war and peace is just one more vivid way he has demonstrated his unfitness for the presidency.