TRUMP'S TWEETS LEVEL IRANIAN TARGETS

(Strategic Sites in Iran) In an apparent escalation of rhetoric and firepower, recent tweets from Donald Trump have leveled several targets around Iran. The 280 character fusillades reportedly caused the deaths of three US citizens who were reading them while driving. Fox news analysts have also linked Trump's tweets to destruction around Tehran.
"The Fake News media and their Democratic supporters would have you believe that Donald Trump's tweets have nothing to do with the fact that several buildings came down in Tehran last night, but we know it's the truth. I mean, the President tweeted. The buildings came down, do I need to draw you a diagram? Have you ever read the Bible book of Joshua? Do the words, 'Walls of Jericho' mean anything to you?" said Kellyanne Conway.
When asked to elaborate on this, Conway replied that anyone who thought she was stupid enough to make a specific statement during this administration was stupider than they gave her credit for being. This has been regarded by many political analysts as the single most transparent comment in the history of the Trump administration.
"What you've got here," explains Dr. Sarah Fawkes, an expert on Psychology and Rhetoric at Greeningtonwhich University, UK, "is a very simple Post Hoc fallacy, coupled with a really elementary psychological trick. If I tell you that my watch keeps tigers away, you'll tell me that I am insane. If I go further and say that since I have been wearing this watch, I have seen no tigers at all, a sane person would then tell me that that is because I do not live in an area where there are any tigers. A person committing a Post Hoc, Ergo Hoc fallacy is simply attributing a causal relationship because one thing happened first. After the thing, therefore the thing. Trump tweeted. Buildings in Tehran fell. I went to the bathroom this morning. This happened after the President's tweets. Does that mean that he caused me to go to the bathroom? By this logic, it isn't out of the question. As for the childish trick of not making a statement, Conway is hoping to lead people in a direction that will allow their brains to fill in the gaps without her actually having said anything. No one likes to be told what to think, this kind of statement simultaneously exculpates her from saying anything patently false and it allows the listener's mind to end up exactly where she wants it to: at the absolutely barmy conclusion that somehow Donald Trump's tweets have caused physical damage to buildings in Tehran. I'm going to say this once and only once: that entire idea is mental. Absolutely, positively mental. Can you imagine believing that sort of thing? Can you? People do."
A senior White House official pointed out that the strategic targets, an abandoned greenhouse, a condemned warehouse, and several uninhabited apartment buildings were simultaneously "imminent threats" to US security and "also didn't matter at all." When asked for further comment, sources reportedly said, "I don't know. That's just what's on the script they gave us."