WASHINGTON – President Trump ordered a military strike on Syria Friday night in response to a chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on his own people, but not before carefully mulling over the plate of cookies in the middle of the conference table, sources say.
“Mr. President, we’ve laid out three options for you to consider,” Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly said. “We believe a joint action with the British and French would bring us the best results moving forward.”
Trump, crossing his arms as he is known to do, did not speak for nearly five minutes and peered down the table before finally saying, “What do you got over there, chocolate chip? Or are those raisins? I can never tell.”
The president’s aides explained that the cookies were a mixture of oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip, to which Trump sighed deeply and appeared distraught.
Prodded by his generals, Trump would eventually make one of the most momentous and potentially transformative decisions of his presidency. “Push that plate over here, okay? I’ll just eat both,” he said. “Frankly, it’s disgusting that they make them with the raisins but I’ll do it. Crooked Hillary wouldn’t be willing to dive in and eat both, I can promise you that. Sure, yeah, bomb them. That’s fine.”
