Trump’s Cozy Holiday: Threaten Iran, Shop Marble, Ignore Yemen
Al-Monitor's account of Trump's holiday, featuring threats against Iran and a hypothetical 'capture Maduro' operation, paints a picture of a singular, unpredictable presidency. Yet, this framing ignores the bipartisan tradition of aggressive US foreign policy—from Obama's drone expansion to Biden's continued sanctions. While the article notes his 'unprecedented strike on Venezuela' (a fictional
scenario for 2026 in the article's own strange speculative timeline), it manages to entirely gloss over actual, devastating interventions, like the ongoing US-backed Saudi war in Yemen, which began under Obama and continued unabated through Trump's term, costing hundreds of thousands of lives and creating the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Instead of merely cataloging Trump's quirks and
speculative scenarios, one might wonder why mainstream outlets routinely fail to connect the dots: the 'dizzying routine' of US presidents is less about individual personality and more about persistent, deadly projection of power abroad, regardless of who's buying marble. Perhaps the next 'unconventional' story will be about a president *not* overseeing foreign conflicts.