Trump wants to bomb Oman? His Iran war keeps getting worse

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Trump wants to bomb Oman? His Iran war keeps getting worse

Aug. 17, 2026, 3:45 p.m. ET

I’m no military strategist, but it seems unwise that our flailing, 80-year-old president is threatening to “bomb the s—” out of our Middle Eastern ally Oman while America is failing to end its ongoing and wholly unnecessary war with Iran.

That’s a mouthful, but it accurately captures where we’re at in a war of President Donald Trump’s making. You know, the one that’s causing us to pay more than $4-per-gallon for gas. The one Trump keeps finding new ways to make dumber.

The Aug. 17 stupidity augmentation came via a Fox News correspondent who spoke with Trump. The president said that if Oman gets in the way of his attempts to end the war, “we’ll bomb the s— out of them.”

There are a couple problems with that.

Maybe Trump shouldn’t threaten to bomb a US ally?

First, Trump’s attempts to end the war he said would be over quickly have been as effective as my New Year’s resolution to cut back on feeling angry that Donald Trump is president.

In fact, Aug. 17 also marked the expiration of the much-ballyhooed “memorandum of understanding” with Iran that Trump signed all fancily at the Palace of Versailles on June 17. That memorandum was supposed to suspend hostilities and lead to a lasting peace. Neither of those things panned out. Oops.

Second, and more importantly, Oman is a key regional ally of the United States. Officials from Oman have been negotiating with Iran to find a way to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which I like to call “the water thingy over there where all the oil boats go.” Getting the strait open, as it was before Trump and Israel decided to bomb Iran, is key to getting fuel prices down.

So profanely threatening to bomb the ally trying to get the oil boats moving through the water thingy and lower my gas prices is, in my estimation, suboptimal.

Please excuse our presidential mess, Oman

It’s also another example of Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior, one that shines a bright light on questions about the president’s mental acuity in a time of war.

In an Aug. 16 Truth Social post, President Grandpa boasted of his “very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea,” which is like Gotham City’s Commissioner Gordon hailing his awesome friendship with the Joker. In the same post, Trump announced he’s scaling back U.S. involvement in joint military exercises with our ally South Korea. So continuing the Gotham City simile, that’s like Commissioner Gordon telling Batman to pound sand.

None of this makes sense. We shouldn’t be in this war in the first place, and nobody can feel good about the way Trump keeps saying a peace deal is imminent, then saying he’s going to bomb Iran, then saying he’s going to bomb a different country, then saying the Strait of Hormuz is open when it’s not, then saying he wants to make the strait a U.S. territory, then dozing off during press events, then posting some pro-dictator nonsense on social media.