Trump ignoring ‘ticking time bomb’ that will lead to ‘recession’ – or worse: expert

Former U.S. Army Major and Intelligence Officer Harrison Mann issued a grave warning Saturday over a “ticking time bomb” he argued President Donald Trump was ignoring, one that if not addressed would undoubtedly lead to an “unmistakable recession” – or worse.

“At this point, it’s hard to ignore the evidence that Trump’s lack of urgency to sign a deal with Tehran is in part because he’s been very slow to understand the actual situation on the ground,” Mann wrote in an analysis published Saturday in Zeteo.

“Trump’s trusted advisers – both in the Situation Room and on Fox News – rarely if ever deliver bad news about the war, whether out of ideological desire to see the president 'finish the job,’ or because they’re afraid he’ll shoot the messenger.”

The United States and Iran remain in a fragile ceasefire, and despite countless reports of a deal to end the conflict between Washington and Tehran being near, no such deal has materialized.

Trump's failure to close a deal with Tehran, Mann argued, stemmed not only from a steady diet of briefings that 'minimize bad news' about the conflict, but from a personal failing of the president himself – one who Mann said would “rather forget” the potentially catastrophic consequences of a prolonged Middle East war.

“The problem is that Trump apparently views today’s pseudo-ceasefire double-blockade impasse as a satisfactory solution to a problem he’d rather forget, instead of a ticking time bomb,” Mann wrote. “Unfortunately, it may take a new crisis within this crisis – an unmistakable recession or more U.S. troops killed in the Gulf – to change his mind.”