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o boom." Ha ha. Good stuff.

So the president tweeted, and I'm paraphrasing, to Iran. After their missile launch failed and their rocket blew up on the launch pad, the president tweeted that the United States had nothing to do with it and he hopes they figure out what went wrong. Now I have to admit even I am not sure what's going on with that, except that I like it. The US had nothing to do with it and hope you figure it out.

Now I'll tell you what that leaves as a possibility. That Israel had something to do with it. But I thought it was interesting that the president said out loud that we had nothing to do with it, because I thought to myself, would it be better if they thought maybe we did, or at least if they thought it was a possibility? Wouldn't that be better for us? But I suspect that they still have to look because they don't believe him. So even though he says the United States had nothing to do with it, they're not going to believe it. So they're still going to look for any sign that we did.

Here's what this felt like, and I may be overinterpreting this. Do you remember the big breakthrough with Kim Jong-un was when the president went funny? So when he tweeted at him, you know, joking insults, and that got Kim Jong-un to kind of deal with the president on a human level where they joked at each other, they insulted each other, and they said, "Hey, you crazy guy, you big old orange crazy guy, let's j

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ust get together." And it looks like the president's trying to play that same play. I can't imagine it working in Iran because it's a different personality, but he's basically tweeted something playful, you know, in a sense. I mean it's provocative and it's challenging, but when he says the US had nothing to do with it, we hope you figure it out, of course you're gonna read that and say he's kind…

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