Conservative columnist Kevin Williamson warns people “not to make the mistake of overcomplicating [President] Donald Trump.”

“He’s a simple man whose actions are … described as the ordinary daily application of his vices: laziness, vindictiveness, greed, vanity, arrogance, cowardice, and, above all, stupidity,” said Williamson in the Dispatch. “He is a rage-addled dimwit with a savantic gift for manipulating lesser fools and a vulnerability to manipulation by men who are similarly vicious but more capable: Vladimir Putin, J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller, even one or two of his idiot children.”

“Stronger men can push him around, and weaker men succeed by flattering him,” added Williamson. “His enemies can manipulate him at least as easily as his allies.” Nevertheless, Trump must be taken seriously — at least “in the sense that one may take a brain tumor as a serious thing but not a thing you’d have an argument with or lose a chess match to.”

Leaders in Iran appear to know this.