Because he understands nothing and knows less

We didn't like where he was stopping.  They were not good stops.

For five straight days, President Trump warned, sometimes in all-caps, that he would retaliate against any Iranian attack on U.S. forces. He pledged to deploy the most “brand new beautiful” weaponry. He vowed to strike back in a “disproportionate manner.” And he said he would do so “without hesitation.”

But in the hours Tuesday after Iran fired a dozen ballistic missiles against two U.S. military bases in Iraq, Trump — at least publicly — was initially without words and the world was left to wonder what he might do next.

  WaPo

That is ALWAYS what the world is wondering.

At 9:45 p.m., Trump’s first public comment was uncharacteristically sanguine, even a tad chirpy. “All is well!” he tweeted.

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At the White House, where the president assembled his relatively skeletal war Cabinet after nightfall, there was a vacuum of information. Officials were tight-lipped and bleary-eyed. The press secretary did not answer questions, only briefly ducking out of her office a bit before 9 p.m. to head home for the evening. A presidential address was considered but not delivered.

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Even as damage assessments and other intelligence from the attacks came in to the Pentagon, officials sought to convey to the president that the situation was not spiraling out of control, according to two administration officials, and that he should refrain from addressing the nation Tuesday evening.

He still had Twitter.

Amid the uncertainty Tuesday evening, mixed messages emanated from official White House channels — when aides shared any information at all. Some staff told reporters that Trump might, in fact, address the nation in a prime time television address, but later, the White House press team officially confirmed that Trump would not speak Tuesday night.

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[White House press secretary Stephanie] Grisham, meanwhile, sent out a tweet chastising CNN for reporting that preparations were underway for a presidential address Tuesday night — even though that’s what some of her own colleagues had been telling journalists.

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On the president’s public schedule Wednesday, he had just one event listed: an Oval Office intelligence briefing at 2:15 p.m.