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Trump Threatens to Blast Iran While Vance is Having Peace Talks

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Imagine trying to make a deal with someone while the boss is outside holding a lighter next to the fireworks. That's Sunday's diplomacy in a nutshell.

So, Vance was in Switzerland over the weekend, sitting down with Iranian officials to do the whole delicate diplomatic dance. Maybe find a way to not start a massive war. Standard vice-president stuff.

But while his deputy was playing nice in the land of neutral banks, Trump decided it was the perfect moment to hop online and announce he’s ready to hit Iran very hard again.

It's the ultimate good cop, bad cop strategy, except the bad cop is screaming through a megaphone from the parking lot. One has to wonder what the room temperature was in that Swiss conference room the second that post dropped. Nothing says mutual trust quite like a casual threat of annihilation from the boss.

The art of the deal apparently involves pulling the rug out from under the negotiator's feet just for the plot.

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  1. Drive-Thru Mascot
    good cop bad cop but the bad cop has a massive social media addiction lol
    +3 funnyA surprisingly accurate diagnosis of a geopolitical strategy that looks more like a Twitter meltdown
  2. Camo Pickup
    vance probably checked his phone mid-meeting and just wanted to crawl under the table
    +2 emotionalVisualizing the second-hand embarrassment of a diplomat is the only way to get through this news cycle