WASHINGTON D.C. – Following the confirmed death of Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S.-led airstrikes, observers question whether Iran’s allies will retaliate, and also whether President Trump will finally win his late father’s approval.
“The Middle East is at a delicate stage right now, and the key to understanding lies in that dead father/son dynamic,” explained Dr. Norah Lombard, chair of The University of Guelph’s department of Middle East Studies and Daddy Issues.
Notes Lombard, “Forced regime change of Iran’s Supreme Leader in the face of a popular uprising raises questions over whether this will be enough for the president to win his father’s love and feel like a whole person for the first time in his life.”
Lombard says she’ll be watching Iran’s allies for signs of retaliation against US and Israeli targets, as well as any free-floating desperation to prove one’s manliness to a withholding patriarch.
Military analysts around the globe, engaged in long-range war game modelling, have long studied how Trump has felt emasculated by President Obama’s ordered capture and killing of bin Laden.
“The death of Iran’s senior leadership is arguably a much larger event, so we’ll see if any sliver of happiness will fill the desiccated husk inside Trump, where a soul would normally resides.”
“I can’t understate the volatility of the situation right now so we need to understand that it all depends on the actions of a president terrified his supporters will see the traumatized child he is deep down,” says Lombard. “And also an adult criminal on several levels.”
Lombard says the path forward for the region is impossible to see.
“The president is running from the unspeakable things he’s alleged to have done in the Epstein files, his low approval ratings, and the disapproving face of his father he sees in his gilded bathroom mirror every morning,” Lombard adds.
“It would be a lot easier to guess what’s going to happen if he would just go to fucking therapy.”
