Don't let the wool pulled over the eyes of the American public by what is happening in Iran. Trump has deliberately been ramping up the pressure on Iran, knowing that that nation would feel compelled to take some retaliatory action. When they do act out against the pressure, Trump can draw attention to that to distract from the public focus on his own misconduct.

Trump's action is simply more proof of Hans Morgenthau's foreign policy postulation made in the 1940s: "The degree of aggressive nationalism and imperialism expressed in a nation's foreign policy is inversely proportional to he political and economic itability that country is experiencing." Trump is deliberately creating another diversion which he can use at his convenience.