Donald Trump Wants To Destroy The Iran Deal Simply Because President Obama Was Black

Following President Obama's election a conspiracy theory started appearing on the far right fringes of conservative commentary that Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but, Kenya.  In 2010 Donald Trump grabbed ahold of this conspiracy and started proclaiming to anyone that would listen, that he Donald Trump would prove this ridiculous idea to be true.  At the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner President Obama proceeded roast him with a series of jokes about birtherism.  Many point to this as the impedes for Donald Trump's campaign for president in 2016.  Why is this important? Because of Donald Trump's long history of racism.  Think back to his announcement in Trump tower and all the derogatory statements he made about Mexicans.  Fast forward to the present and look at what he's done with his time in office.  He's tried to reverse every policy ever implemented by the Obama administration.  If Donald Trump could, he'd erase Barack Obama from history.  For him, having been ridiculed by a black man is so offensive that their must be retribution.

Hence his determination to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal. It doesn't what the consequences maybe, what's important that Barack Obama and his legacy be destroyed.

The use of an Israeli private security firm to dig for dirt on senior members of the Obama administration linked to the Iran nuclear deal, as revealed in today’s Observer, shows how far President Donald Trump and the hawks around him are willing to go to destroy the agreement.

The 2015 deal is the last major element of Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy left standing, after nearly 16 months of the Trump era. The drive to unravel the agreement is both deeply personal – driven by Trump’s animus towards his predecessor – and global in its implications for international peace and security.

The bid to discredit the deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – with compromising information on two of its fiercest advocates from the Obama administration came to nothing. Instead, Trump’s campaign against it has relied on the simple repetition of derogatory phrases about it being the “worst deal ever” and “a major embarrassment”. It has remained a fixed point in Trump’s universe.

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Trump and some of his allies are apparently unhappy with Sec. of State Rex Tillerson for certifying the Iranian nuclear deal, and according to an article in Foreign Policy Magazine, are going to do their best to undermine the agreement: Trump Assigns White House Team to Target Iran Nuclear Deal, Sidelining State Department:

After a contentious meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this week, President Donald Trump instructed a group of trusted White House staffers to make the potential case for withholding certification of Iran at the next 90-day review of the nuclear deal. The goal was to give Trump what he felt the State Department had failed to do: the option to declare that Tehran was not in compliance with the contentious agreement.

“The president assigned White House staffers with the task of preparing for the possibility of decertification for the 90-day review period that ends in October — a task he had previously given to Secretary Tillerson and the State Department,” a source close to the White House told Foreign Policy. [...]

FP spoke with three sources who were either invited to take part in the new process or were briefed on the president’s decision on certification. All described the new process as a way to work around the State Department, which the president felt pushed certification forward by giving him no other options. [...]

On Monday morning, work was on track for the administration to again certify that Iran was meeting the necessary conditions, but the president expressed second thoughts around midday. A meeting between Trump and Tillerson that afternoon quickly turned into a meltdown.

A third source with intimate knowledge of that meeting said Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, and Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, were particularly vocal, repeatedly asking Tillerson to explain the U.S. national security benefits of certification. “They repeatedly questioned Rex about why recertifying would be good for U.S. national security, and Rex was unable to answer,” the source said.

“The president kept demanding why he should certify, and the answers Tillerson gave him infuriated him,” the source added.