Trump just put the Iran question on the table in language nobody in Washington wanted on tape: “When do I blow the entire nation up?” The options he named are not think-tank fog. Make a deal. Let Iran rot under the naval blockade. Or wipe the regime out. Last week, he told Axios a big decision was coming on whether to annihilate Iran’s government. Now he’s saying very big things are coming in the not-so-distant future — and he cut Camp David short, coming back to the White House a day early to sit with it. Iranian officials are headed to New York for the U.N. General Assembly. Trump says he’d probably be open to meeting President Masoud Pezeshkian. He also says Tehran keeps sending people who cannot close a deal, and some of them are “hiding like rats.” Meanwhile the blockade is still squeezing a battered economy, CENTCOM has escorted a billion barrels of crude through the Strait of Hormuz, Houthis fired a ballistic missile toward Riyadh, and the State Department quietly warned Americans about sudden escalation and airspace closures.Pat also covered: CENTCOM moved one billion barrels through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran exported zero. Did Ed Sheeran just bend the knee to the rage mob? UFO over Tehran. Is America flying tech we won’t admit we have? Karl Rove gets the state of the Republican Party wrong. Again. Talarico is up six on Paxton. Is Texas about to send a beta male to the Senate?Would you take a deal with this regime after that warning? If Trump picks “wipe them out,” is that strength — or a war you actually want?If you want unfiltered truth and commonsense analysis that cuts through the noise, hit subscribe and turn on notifications.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices