{"id":70169,"date":"2026-03-27T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/blink-and-miss-trumps-tactic-of-threats-first-and-u-turn-later-is-proving-stale-in-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:03:40","slug":"blink-and-miss-trumps-tactic-of-threats-first-and-u-turn-later-is-proving-stale-in-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/blink-and-miss-trumps-tactic-of-threats-first-and-u-turn-later-is-proving-stale-in-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Blink and miss: Trump\u2019s tactic of threats first and U-turn later is proving stale in Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s move, dubbed Trump Always Chickens Out, appears to have soured as he loses hold on situation in Iran<\/p>\n<p>From Wall Street to the White House, the dish everyone\u2019s talking about this week is the Persian Taco. It\u2019s what\u2019s served when Trump chickens out in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of Monday morning, witnessing oil prices surge, stock futures plummet and bond yields climb due to his threat to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/2036079548329013697?s=20\">pummel Iran\u2019s civilian power infrastructure<\/a>, the president hurriedly walked it back, announcing he would put off the bombing because talks with Iran were actually going great. After the bombast and bloodshed, it was time for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/29\/trump-always-chickens-out-taco-investors-narrative\">Taco<\/a> (Trump Always Chickens Out), a move he first put on display during the tariffs crisis last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/27\/trump-iran-strategy-taco\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s move, dubbed Trump Always Chickens Out, appears to have soured as he loses hold on situation in Iran From Wall Street to the White House, the dish everyone\u2019s talking about this week is the Persian Taco. It\u2019s what\u2019s served when Trump chickens out in Iran. In the early hours of Monday morning, witnessing oil &#8230; <a title=\"Blink and miss: Trump\u2019s tactic of threats first and U-turn later is proving stale in Iran war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/blink-and-miss-trumps-tactic-of-threats-first-and-u-turn-later-is-proving-stale-in-iran-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Blink and miss: Trump\u2019s tactic of threats first and U-turn later is proving stale in Iran war\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}