Article continues below advertisementPresident Donald Trump reportedly used his widely condemned, aggressive, and "unstable" rhetoric on social media to scare Iran into a quick negotiation, which ultimately backfired. According to insider accounts from The Wall Street Journal, the president's logic was to appear as "unstable and insulting" as possible because he believed it was "a language the Iranians would understand."On April 5, Trump posted an expletive-laden demand on Truth Social for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, ending with the phrase "Praise be to Allah.