Sunday, May 24, 2026

“That was a whole month ago”

Nobody could have foreseen. Who told us what the “deal” was, before he told us what it isn’t?
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday told his representatives not to rush into any deal with Iran, as his administration played down hopes of an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war that had been raised just yesterday during public statements and calls with allies in the Middle East, according to Reuters.
Again: public statements by…? C’mon, you can say it….

Who came up with this preposterous idea?
According to @BarakRavid for Axios, citing people with knowledge on the matter, during a call today with Arab leaders, U.S. President Donald J. Trump told them that if a U.S.-Iran deal is realized, he would like them to become party to a wider peace framework with Israel. In the past, President Trump has championed the furtherance of the Saudi-Israeli Abraham Accords and an expansion of a potential Arab-Israeli rapprochement framework was not received well by the other nations on the call. Per the report, the president’s request was received by silence on the phone line.
What a surprise:
Amid the alleged “internal pressure” being placed on Trump to resume the war against Iran, Bloomberg has reported that the president has also faced significant “outside” pressure to resume the war, including from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Can’t resume the war and get the rest of the Middle East into the Abraham Accord. (Do we need any more evidence that Trump is a dangerous and insufferable dimwit?) Earlier this morning: And this is aging like a glass of milk in the Texas sun:
Kevin Hassett: "As people are getting ready to get their oil refineries going back to full capacity, then there's just basically a gusher of oil that could come out. There are a lot of other great signs on inflation. As soon as we get energy prices going back down, you could actually be looking at negative inflation."
This will age about as well, too: If Paxton thinks that’s going to help in the general, he may as well quit now. Trump just gave Talarico another ad.

If Congress doesn’t end this stupid and pointless war by the midterms, they’ll do it in January. There’s no way out other than to accept most of Iran’s demands. And there is no way forward. There never was. It may take a new Congress to understand that. A Congress that didn’t let Trump do whatever damned fool thing he wanted to.
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