Trump’s strike talk didn’t deter Iran, it stripped Israel of cover, narrowed Netanyahu’s options, and handed Iran a win without a shot being fired. Right, so Donald Trump hasn’t restrained Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran as the two men meet once again - he’s actually overexposed him.. Netanyahu has always wanted to hit Iran. He did it in June. He has certainly suggested that he wants to go again. He’s never hidden that. What Trump’s just done is make that desire impossible to dress up as anything other than what it is, and that matters because once escalation is said out loud, managing the fallout gets a lot harder. This isn’t just about a few remarks in Florida. It’s about a pattern where American presidents, Trump especially, think loud threats equal deterrence, when all they really do is collapse the space other actors use to control timing and blame. Trump didn’t hint or signal. He talked about eradication, bombers, inevitability — and in doing that he turned Israel’s long-running Iran pressure campaign into an open declaration, not a manoeuvre. Iran hasn’t crossed a new line. Trump has just erased the old ones. And now Netanyahu has to own the consequences. Right, so Donald Trump has done what he always does when he thinks he’s being decisive. He has spoken openly, plainly, and without any discipline, such is customary for the tangerine toddler passing himself off as President, about things that are normally kept deliberately abstract, and in doing so he has damaged the very structure he claims to be reinforcing. This wasn’t an accidental remark. It wasn’t loose phrasing. It was a posture, delivered publicly after a private meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, and it has shifted the terrain in a way that now constrains Israel far more than it empowers it. Trump has said he would back Israeli strikes on Iran’s missile programme or nuclear facilities. He has talked about “eradicating” any rebuild. He has referenced B-2 bombers and the length of their missions as if the use of strategic air power were a matter of logistics rather than escalation.