Source: The Dispatch
by Nick Catoggio
“The press is having fun today with the White House’s new timeline on bombing Iran. ‘I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,’ the president said Thursday in a statement. Those fluent in Trump-ese know that ‘two weeks’ doesn’t literally mean two weeks. On all sorts of looming policy decisions dating back to his first term, it’s what Donald Trump unfailingly defaults to whenever he has no idea what he’s going to do. … Just as the cat in Erwin Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment both is and isn’t alive, ‘two weeks’ both is and isn’t a deadline. … The TikTok ban is the latest reminder that we’re living under Schrödinger’s presidency, where laws both do and don’t apply. Think of them as ‘suggestions’ to the White House rather than binding instructions.” (06/20/25)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/trump-policy-congress-immigration-tik-tok-tariffs/