Six in Ten Americans Say It Was a Mistake. He Says Iran Is 'Afraid' to Make a Deal.

Honey, when six out of ten people tell you something went wrong, that is not a fringe opinion. That’s the lunch crowd, the dinner crowd, and most of the breakfast shift all saying the same thing. You don’t get to call that a misunderstanding.

Pew Research put out a poll. Fifty-nine percent of Americans said military force against Iran was the wrong call. Not a slim majority. Not a squeaker. More than half the country, spread across the political map, looking at what happened and saying: no, that wasn’t right.

Now, a president who was paying attention to the people he works for might take a moment. Might reflect. Might at least acknowledge that a significant number of his fellow citizens have concerns.

Not this one.

He said Iran wants a deal. Secretly. Deep down. They want it real bad. But they’re “afraid to say it” because if they say it out loud, somebody in Iran will kill them for it.

So his read on the situation is: he won, Iran knows he won, Iran wants to give him what he wants, but Iran is too scared to admit it, which is why Iran keeps saying the opposite of that and firing missiles.

That’s the explanation. That’s what we’re working with.

I’ve had people in this diner try to explain away a bad situation before. Usually involves a lot of words and not much sense. But there is something almost impressive about a man who can look at fifty-nine percent disapproval and a country that keeps shooting at us and decide the problem is that his opponent is shy.

The American people aren’t confused, sugar. They’re paying attention. There’s a difference.

You all set? I got other tables.