Trump Threatens to Kill Thousands More Iranians in Unnerving Tirades

Donald Trump is threatening to bomb Iran’s power plants in order to send that country “back to the stone ages,” as he has put it. Trump’s tendency to wrap sociopathic expressions of sadism and bloodlust in such cartoonish language has unleashed a lot of parsing of his intentions: Surely it’s just designed to bluff Iran into reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Perhaps he’s hyperbolically describing a more limited bombing plan. Or maybe he’s just venting.But instead of sifting through clues to Trump’s...