Fortunately, he was talked out of this by the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the acting Defense Secretary, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chair.
Trump has still refused to concede that he lost the election two weeks ago and has frozen transition assistance to incoming President Joe Biden. At the end of previous administrations, the outgoing President always consulted with the incoming one on major issues so that policies would overlap, but of course that can't happen now.
This means, had he not been stopped, he could have blundered the United States into a major war.
Trump's rationale was based on the claim that an attack was necessary to slow Iran's nuclear program. Yet Trump himself was the one who junked the Iran nuclear deal, thereby removing that country's limits.
As a result, two years after Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal, Iran cut in half the time it would need to produce enough weapons-grade fuel for a nuclear bomb (details here).
In short, Trump wanted to attack Iran for a problem he let happen.
Per the article, "Iran’s uranium stockpile is now twelve times larger than permitted under the nuclear accord that Trump abandoned in 2018."
The piece also notes that Trump may be looking for a way to cause enough hostility that Iran would not consider making a deal with the new Biden administration to once again limit its nuclear program.
In sum, Trump is looking for ways to sabotage incoming President Biden. He also reportedly is trying to do this with Afghanistan and with other policy areas.
January 20 cannot come soon enough.
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