Theodore Roosevelt admonished leaders to “walk softly and carry a big stick.” After what he did in Iran and Venezuela, it would be wrong to claim President Donald Trump doesn’t carry a big stick or that he is afraid to use it. But he certainly does not walk softly. And his track record notwithstanding, repeatedly issuing the same threat and failing to follow through on it only further entrenches one’s foes.

In Davos on Wednesday, Trump issued yet another stark warning to Hamas, telling an audience at the World Economic Forum that the terror group will be “blown away very quickly” if it fails to disarm under his administration’s Gaza peace initiative.

It’s not the first time Trump has used language like this. He previously vowed to “open the gates of hell” on Hamas if they did not comply with Phase Two of his 20-point plan. But in each case, the pattern has repeated: Hamas publicly rejects disarmament—and no...

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