Trump wanted praise, as though saying so demonstrated his extraordinary and unique genius. He actually mentioned that Clinton had used the word “bombing” in her initial statement, but nevertheless preened, “What I said was exactly correct. I should be a newscaster because I called it before the news.”

Weirdly enough, the dingbats who host [Fox & Friends] actually pressed Trump for some specifics. When Trump said, “We’re going to have to do something extremely tough over there,” Steve Doocy asked, “Like what?” Trump responded:

“Like knock the hell out of them. And we have to get everybody together and we have to lead for a change because we’re not knocking them, we’re hitting them every once in a while, we’re hitting them in certain places, we’re being very gentle about it, we’re going to have to be very tough.”

—Washington Post