After the Strait of Hormuz was partially reopened, on 17 June, the oil price dropped, to the dismay of the oil merchants and their shareholders! One reason, at least, for Trump to escalate his rhetoric against Iran today, and claim the Memorandum of Understanding to end the war, was "over".
It must also have hurt his sensitivities - which are known to be "very, very great" - when Iranians on the streets in Teheran, in mourning for their assassinated leader Khamenei, said he deserved to be killed for what he'd done to them.
It remains to be seen if he really wants this war to start again, or if the language he used to belittle the Iranians this time - the dirtiest yet - is just more Trumpian bombast.
Maybe he was also upset because not everyone attending the annual NATO Summit agreed to comply with his many and varied demands. Like the Spanish and Danes, who haven't openly submitted to him over Iran, arms expenditure, Greenland, tariffs, climate change, etc...
So it was quite amazing to read that he described the Summit as "great" and said that there was "a lot of love" and "a lot of unity" in the room!
The world cup: one great big love-in?
Yes, that word "unity" is being bandied around a lot these days. It's written on players' armbands at the World Cup. And on FIFA's website, obliging team members from around the world to repeat it in different languages. They tell us that "football unites the world"!
Whereas World Cup (and major league) footie seems mainly to unite the money markets and big business, as they line up to score big time, literally kicking billions around the field. It's a competition rigged only by how much they can afford to pay.
And this year, "football unity" is courtesy of Donald Trump, who has also taken over as VAR - the video assisted ref! Yes, he caused gasps after he got FIFA boss Infantino to overturn US striker Folarin Balogun's red card - who was then allowed to play against Belgium's team, although the Belgians won anyway.
Of course, "world unity" is precisely what normal, ordinary working class people would like to see. No more wars, no more useless killing, open borders for all, no more visas and passports, and let's use our planet's excessively rich resources in the free interests of absolutely everyone. And, we should add, let's also see a truly "beautiful game" on the football field.
So more's the pity that the talented players who perform such amazing feats - with their amazing feet {and heads!) - are turned into golden geese so early on in their "professional careers". And are expected to keep laying golden eggs for their respective Football Associations and clubs, until they injure themselves irreversibly, or get too old to play. They themselves might - and do - become millionaires, but as the Beatles knew very well, "money can't buy you love" - even if Donald Trump thinks it can.
Our prize is the world itself
Britain's own miniature version of the ultra-nationalist Mr Trump - the unlovable Kermit-like Nigel Farage - has just given himself a big headache. He resigned as MP for Clacton and has called a by-election in order to try and silence all the questions being asked about his millions (self-acquired and donated) and his crooked young mate, "Posh George".
Now the "good people of Clacton" are meant to give their verdict on whether he is "Honest Joe" or not, by coming out to vote - again...
Only, the other dishonest Joes in Westminster don't want to play. Even if it might give them a chance to send him off for good. The main parties and even Restore, Rupert Lowe's further-right split from Reform, have said they won't stand.
Farage and Lowe can eat their hearts out, however. If their "deport them all" rules against immigrants were law, more than half of Harry Kane's (hopefully!) winning English team wouldn't be here. What's more, that opportunist racist, Shabana Mahmood, should join them in their bloody meal, given her latest anti-immigrant policies.
Behind their whipping up of terror against "illegal migrants" who are apparently guilty of all the crime in the country, is simple racism. It's no coincidence that a stream of right-wing Tories, who, like Farage, admire Enoch Powell, has been flowing into Reform and its "Advance" and "Restore" spin-offs.
If Lowe had his way, probably even Kane and Rice would have to go, since they have Irish forebears! And Kemi Badenoch, too! She, at least, has cross-border credentials, which "trump" nationality - like the footballer Balogun, who could have played for the US, England, or Nigeria!
However that's not the kind of internationalism we are after. Let us remind ourselves - as Marx wrote, back in 1848, that workers have no country: we have a world to win.