Some things just have to be said.

First, President Donald Trump spoke for more than 100 minutes at the State of the Union on Tuesday. He mentioned Iran for three minutes. Most of that was boasting about how he successfully knocked out their nuclear program last June. He talked about applying maximum pressure to get a deal. Not once did he call for regime change.

Second, why did the Pentagon set an arbitrary 5 p.m. Friday deadline for negotiations with Anthropic over their red-lines for AI use in defense deployments? And why did President Trump ignore his administration’s own deadlines and declare 80 minutes early that the federal government is banned from using Anthropic AI?

Third, why did Benjamin Netanyahu call for protestors in Iran to rise up and overthrow their government in Hebrew? Does this sound like a call for legitimate action or domestic consumption?

Fourth, why is there widespread reporting in Iran that U.S.-Israeli forces hit a girls primary school in Minab, reportedly killing dozens of girls? An Iranian academic was on Al Jazeera this morning arguing that this war is being waged by the “Epstein class” that either kills little girls or rapes them. That line is devastating for a reason. If the U.S. has evidence disproving this Iranian reporting, they better get it out fast, because it’s being reported around the globe.

Fifth, what AI product is being used right now to make targeting decisions? It’s not OpenAI, despite their agreement yesterday — it just gained access to AWS servers last night. Elon Musk’s Grok AI isn’t cleared for classified use, and it’s nowhere near as capable of what the Pentagon has been using. Is the Pentagon using Anthropic for targeting decisions despite labeling it a “supply chain risk” just yesterday?

Sixth, does anyone give a damn about the U.S. Constitution anymore? We’ve gone so far down the slippery slope that we don’t even require a U.S. President to identify an imminent threat before taking military action. President Trump one day says he destroyed Iran’s nuclear capability, then says they might reconstitute, then talks about applying pressure for negotiations … and then, in the early morning hours on a Saturday, we’re at war.

Seven, and perhaps most chilling … remember Trump’s conversation with Norway’s Prime Minister. You wouldn’t give me the Nobel Prize, so I don’t feel obliged to be peaceful anymore.

It would be comic if it weren’t literal truth.