It’s like a cartoon, but without the laughs. Bugs Bunny draws a line in the sand and says, “I dare you to step over this line.” Yosemite Sam steps over the line. Bugs Bunny backs up, draws another line, and shouts, “Okay, step over this one.” And so on, until Sam crosses one line too many and falls off a cliff.

Too bad the real-life cartoon doesn’t end there. Instead, Yosemite Sam crawls out of the abyss and stumbles back into the White House, his presidency intact and his sycophants still groveling, even after he has irreparably damaged his country’s credibility by trying to bluff Iran into submission then threatening it with genocide. (“A whole civilization will die tonight…”)

Even after he caused thousands of deaths and wasted more than a billion dollars a day on a stupidly conceived 39-day war that has led to a two-week ceasefire that looks a lot like victory for Iran.

My neighbor Swamp Rabbit is rarely sober but he’s more clear-eyed about the Iran fiasco than Trump’s Republican lapdogs: “Them oil tankers were free to pass through the strait-of-whatever before the hog monster bombed Iran. Now they’re gonna have to get an OK from the mullahs.”

Footnote: And guess who’s still in control of all that enriched uranium?