As the four-to-six-week war in Iran enters its fourth month, President Donald Trump vacillates daily, sometimes hourly. Between declaring a peace deal has been “largely negotiated, subject to finalization,” to insisting his critics are off base, because they are pointing to “things that haven’t even been negotiated yet.”

One minute, Trump said talks are “proceeding nicely,” and that the political leaders in Iran are “smarter” and “more reasonable.” The next minute — frustrated by the Iranian negotiators’ intransigence — he threatened the Shia Islamic theocracy. Trump mused about a 92-million-person nation that he might “blow them to Kingdom come.”