The Last Boomer Drops the Bombs

A short Iran Explainer by a longtime Trump watcher

This is going to be a quick geopolitical post before I finish my main post this week (on a subject I am actually qualified to discuss: the movie Pretty Woman).

But I just wanted to broach something I’ve been thinking about since the Iran campaign started.

So far, I have heard about a thousand justifications and reasons for why Trump decided to finally pull the trigger on Iran. Political reasons, military reasons, Israel reasons, etc.

But I have my own private theory as to why Donald Trump was the guy who finally said “F it” and went medieval on the mullahs.

I have been a Trump watcher my whole life. I first learned about him as an L.A. middle school kid when my issue of SPY Magazine arrived in the mail and he was on the cover. SPY editor Graydon Carter referred to him as a “short-fingered vulgarian.” Who was this guy? He seemed like a character out of a Tom Wolfe novel, an old New York character from the Gilded Age. Was he real?