Lucy Van Pelt is Iran. The football is the Strait of Hormuz. And Trump is, well, Trump.

Sid Schwab

As he decompensates while his stupid war spins out of control like a buzz-bomb firecracker, it’s obvious that Iranian leaders have figured him out. It’s the B-side of what other world leaders have recognized and used to their advantage: praise him like a child who used a potty, flatter him with participation trophies, and get what they want. Iran’s insight is to lie to him like he lies to everyone, get him to announce the latest “agreement,” deny it exists, induce him to make ridiculous, madman threats, announce more agreements, threaten more war crimes, back off, produce deadlines, rescind them, while they enjoy the result as he looks more out of touch, less and less powerful, and definitely not in control of anything; least of all, himself. Watch as the world backs away from him in dismay (tinyurl.com/bye2homer). This is what Trump has done to America’s once-admirable standing in the world.

Unconditional surrender was the goal. Or ending their nuclear program“two weeks away from a bomb” every two weeks for 10 years. Or opening the Strait of Hormuz, which was closed only because of his war. Since Trump spends most of his time on social media and watching toady TV, he must have seen Iran’s hilarious trolling videos., of which this is but one example: (tinyurl.com/2trollDJT) He’s become so dislodged from reality and unstable that aides kept him out of the room when planning the rescues of those downed pilots, lest he start issuing damaging orders. This is the “president” we have, thanks to MAGA. (tinyurl.com/noroom4u) It should frighten everyone. It becomes the patriotic duty of every American to vote only for Democrats until every MAGA Republican has been replaced in Congress.

The mullahs must be having a constant laugh as they make Trump look ridiculous to the world, including, of late, even former Trump-fluffer Tucker Carlson, who stopped licking and started looking. (tinyurl.com/2tuckaway ) Though it was obvious before he descended that golden escalator, deniers can no longer deny: everything Trump says is a lie. About Iran, about elections, about climate change. About anything and everything. In a “president,” it’s an undesirable quality. (tinyurl.com/created4u) Example: Iran’s “totally obliterated” navy just commandeered two commercial ships.

Trump’s calamitous, unnecessary, undeclared war/not-war has strengthened China and Russia, and convinced Iran that it doesn’t need nuclear arms. In its control of the Strait of Hormuz, it has a far more powerful weapon. No rational world leader other than Trump, who isn’t, would use nukes. Thanks to Trump, Iran now understands they don’t need them to disrupt the entire world and get whatever it wants.

https://www.heraldnet.com/2026/04/24/schwab-lucy-van-pelt-is-iran-the-football-is-the-strait-of-hormuz-and-trump-is-well-trump/