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Trump said on Fox News:

“My preference has always been — take Kharg Island... I don’t know that America has the stomach for it. You’d make a fortune.”

— President Donald Trump, Fox News, June 11

That is not a small thing.

The President of the United States was publicly discussing his preferred target in an ongoing conflict.

Not a military base.

Kharg Island — the economic heart of Iran’s oil exports.

And the hesitation was not framed first as legal, constitutional, or strategic.

It was framed as whether America had the stomach for it.

That should make everyone pause.

Because once war aims are workshopped on morning television, the line between governing and punditry starts to collapse.

You do not have to hate Trump to see the problem.

You only have to ask:

If a president I disliked were saying this on live TV, would I still call it normal?