Trump threatened to wipe out a civilisation, then ended up taking Iran’s terms to Islamabad. Not a leader just a loser. Right, so Donald Trump said a whole civilisation would die that night if Iran did not do what he wanted, and then less than two hours before his own deadline he backed off, took a two-week ceasefire, accepted talks in Islamabad in Pakistan, and called Iran’s proposal a workable basis for negotiation after having previously said it wasn’t enough. That is not the story of a man imposing terms. That is the story of a man finding out, in public, that there is a difference between saying the most extreme thing you possibly could, out loud and in public as usual and actually being able to carry it through. He did not just retreat. He did it after talking like he had reached the point where retreat was no longer available. He put total ...