We all pay for Trump’s warmongering, bad-tempered toddler tantrum

April 2, 2026 — 5:00am

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The trouble with taking US President Donald Trump at his word is that he is not a man of his word.

His increasingly capricious utterances on his Middle East misadventure are not only unbelievable, but have the tone of a bad-tempered toddler who blames everyone but himself for the shambolic mess he has created.

One day, he says the war is won, another day it is not a war but an excursion. He tells traditional allies he does not need them, then they’re cowards. Subsequently, reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a core objective, in fact, Iran should “open up the Strait of Trump, I mean Hormuz”; and “we don’t need” it........

© The Sydney Morning Herald