Option #1

With the midterms bearing down Trump is desperate to find somebody else to blame when he is finally forced to give away the store.

There's no way he going to come home with his tail between his legs.

Option #2

Brave it out until after the midterms and hope that the Republicans can survive loss of the Senate.

There's a #3 option, but it would require a loss of the Senate and House majority and an impeachment. (Not to mention a padlock and several armed guards with orders to "shoot to kill" on the classified documents storage unit.

Meantime, Trump's jealousy of Obama rages on, like a hot chunk of coal in his head.

I agree with Nixon. Trump was desperate to keep the stock market afloat . . . 38 times.

How about this: Because it was a monumental achievement of the smarter Obama Administration and stupid Trump (who didn't do his homework) was on a mission to destroy everything "Obama."

Shorthand version: Trump was wearing his insecurity on his sleeve and leaped before he looked.

CUTIEPIE

In your opinion, what makes the difference if the "deal" needed a few adjustments? In fact, under the current condition, I'd be surprised if it didn't.

The main point, with or without, Mr. Putin just put BFF Trump in a most awkward position and a badly bruised ego.

Both he and Netanyahu left holding the bag, so to speak.

It appears that Trump thinks that his own intelligence is the only intelligence he needs. Especially about his own mentally deranged obsession with the 2020 election which he will probably take to his grave

Chances are "But I Really Won" will be carved on his tombstone.

Sounds like Mr. Putin just pulled the rug out from under Trump's plans (goal) to rule the world by controlling the world's economy.

And the self-professed brainiac like Trump didn't even see it coming.

He's going to need a really big distraction now to cover up his Iranian boondoggle. Cuba won't be big enough . . . maybe he'll attack the Statue of Liberty instead.

Hassett may be the Director of the National Economic Council but Trump is the Director of Hassett.

Hassett just does and says what he's told to do and say . . . . OR ELSE!

LAMP

Keep in mind that some VIP "turncoat" hasn't fallen out a window yet. Maybe that's a message Trump is saving for last if the heat gets too hot.

LAMP

It's still all about retribution for the 2020 election . . . . and amassing enormous wealth in the pross.

It's never been about anything else.

And we'd be fools to think he's reached the depth of his depravity.

Trump expects to lose most of his "distraction" battles once they've served their purpose. It's the one thing he never runs out of, it seems.

In the meantime, after he destroys the world's economy and even if impeached while leaving the Republican Party in shambles he'll win the biggest battle of his life. He'll leave office with $6+ Billion more than he came in with plus whatever his kids can steal from the U.S. Treasury in their own Dash for taxpayer dollars.

That will be Trump's REAL retribution. Total destruction!

Stating the obvious, dementia accelerates with old age. Trump was never wrapped too tight to start with.

Trump goes out of his way to offend EVERYBODY!

Obviously, he thinks he has a fool-proof plan to demolish the Constitution and keep the MEGA operation in power for eternity, i.e., a dictatorship replete with a succession of chosen sociopathic, narcissistic successors. (in his image)

Remember the Roach Motel?

There's only one way in and no way out.

That's where Trump is right now.

Again I ask, what are the chances the military leaders (not Hegseth) will refuse to carry out illegal orders?

Trump will be the last to admit that he's anything less than perfect.

This situation is going to take a forceful act of Congress. . . and soon!

I'm also wondering if there's a chance that military leaders will step in and refuse to obey illegal orders?

Whatever! Trump won't go down without a fight . . . and maybe a strait jacket if Trump's REAL character comes to the fore. I'm thinking raving maniac.

Trump has bit off more than he can chew this time.

It appears to me that Iran is cleverly leading Trump by the nose straight to the Hague for international war crimes.

Which would explain a lot why NATO countries are giving Trump's folly a wide berth.

Trump's profanity-laced post: (you fill in the blanks)

"Open the f*****g Straits you crazy b*****ds or you'll be living in Hell."

As a result, the Senate is now talking 25TH Amendment! Trump has finally flipped out.

That post also included war crimes he intends to use to drive Iran back to the Stone Age.

Being a loser all his life, Trump believed that becoming President of the United States (by hook or by crook) would finally, FINALLY, make him a winner.

It didn't. It just made him a bigger LOSER.

Problems????? Is that what they call it?

I'd call it a death wish!

He courts disaster! Like all other losers before him.

No surprise here. And to put icing on the cupcake, these losers didn't finish their 5-year service with Trump's "Murder, Inc" immigration program and they won't be receiving that $50,000 bonus check either.

Oh, Boo Hoo. pffffft

REIN

Yeah, but where ya gonna find one of those? Plus they don't make second amendment problem solvers like they used to. If they did this problem would have found its own solution a couple years ago.

CATDOG

Trump was born with a mental condition called greed, but I guess the affliction could be called "contagious" even though it's really just birds of a feather flocking together.

Any normal person would resign rather let himself be twisted into a knot by Trump.

That also goes for Miller, Noem, Lewandowsky and all the other psychos, past, present and future, who are hoping for a piece of the action when Trump becomes dictator.

Pam Bondi has been an accident waiting to happen from the beginning.