Trump uses threats and capital letters

The joy of tweeting is that the sender can resort to capital letters when he or she really wants to make a point. Captal letter tweets are Donald Trump's favourite way of giving the strongest message to whoever is in his firing line. This week it's Iran whose leader appeared to be suggesting that if the US ever took military or any other type of aggressive action against his country, a mother-of-all wars would follow. President Hassan Rouhani was leaping on the rhetorical bandwagon to warn Trump that Iran was ready for anything. I don't know whether Trump was still in his dressing gown at the time but he railed at Rouhani in capital letters. "NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!" he tweeted. Wow, that told him. The wording is all too familiar, on both sides. It was Saddam Hussein who coined the phrase when he warned the US that it would face the mother-of-all battles if it dared to attack him. Well, the US and coalition partners did attack him and his troops and he was soundly defeated. Has Rouhani forgotten that? But Trump's capital letter words were also straight out of the Angry Trump lexicon. He used almost the same phrases when he warned Kim Jong-un against launching missiles against the US. Trump would argue that his tough words, including the now famous Little Rocket Man tweets to Kim Jong-un, forced the North Korean leader to hold a summit and talk about denuclearisation. That's all well and good but since the summit in Singapore there hasn't been a whisper of denuclearisation and there are reports of North Korea backsliding. So Rouhani probably isn't too terrified by Trump's tweets. But the constant use of capital letters is supposed to be a sign of manic behaviour, even loony behaviour. so, as Trump himself would say, who knows what will happen next?