“And then there’s ISIS. I have a simple message for them. Their days are numbered. I won’t tell them where, and I won’t tell them how. We must, as a nation, be more unpredictable. We are totally predictable. We tell everything.
“We’re sending troops, we tell them. We’re sending something else; we have a news conference. We have to be unpredictable. And we have to be unpredictable starting now.”
President Donald Trump spoke these words a decade ago on April 27, 2016, during his first presidential campaign.
Yet they remain the key to understanding his entire approach to foreign policy. As tensions with Iran escalate and analysts scramble to predict American actions, this quote should explain everything.
We tend to interpret Trump’s mixed messages as evidence of erratic leadership, indecision, or lack of focus. But this clip reveals the opposite: the confusion is by design.
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