Lincoln had a "team of rivals" in his cabinet whereas Trump has motley collection of total f*ck ups.
Incredibly the Trump administration's galaxy brain plan for Iran was to replicate Venezuela by eliminating current leadership and putting another regime figure in charge. In this case, former hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who Israel and the US schemed to put in power.
Ahmadinejad was a strong advocate for Iran's nuclear program and known for his frequent calls to "wipe Israel off the map."
The Times said Trump was relishing the success of the special forces raid that kidnapped Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, and the willingness of his interim replacement, Delcy Rodriguez, to work with the White House, and believed the same model could be replicated in Iran.However, the US-Israeli plan, which Ahmadinejad had been consulted about, “quickly went awry”, according to the US officials who spoke to the Times.
Ahmadinejad was reportedly wounded on the first day of the war by an Israeli strike on his home in Tehran, which was intended to free him from house arrest, American officials told the Times. Ahmadinejad survived the strike, they said, but after the near-miss, he changed his mind about the regime change plan, and he has not been located since.
Genius plan to try to place Ahmadinejad in power goes wrong when they wound the guy in an airstrike on day one.