“They are begging to make a deal, not me. They’re begging to make a deal.”
Deal or No Deal
Reuters reports Trump “Not Sure He’s Willing to Make a Deal with Iran”
It’s a short video. Play it.
Obvious Lie of the Day Quotes
They have the chance, that is Iran, to permanently abandon their nuclear ambitions and chart a new path forward. We’ll see if they want to do it. If they don’t, we’re their worst nightmare. In the meantime, we’ll just keep blowing them away. They are begging to make a deal, not me. They’re begging to make a deal. Anyone that saw what was happening over there would understand why they want to make a deal. But they say, ‘Oh we’re not talking to’. Anybody would know they are talking. … only a total fool, and they’re not fools. They’re very smart, actually, in a certain way. And they are great negotiators. I say they are lousy fighters, but they’re great negotiators. And they are begging to work out a deal. I don’t know if we’ll be able to do that. They should have done it two years ago or they should have done it when we first came into office.”
Dissecting the Obvious Lies and Ironies
Trump: They are begging to make a deal, not me. They’re begging to make a deal.
Reality: Trump is desperate for a deal. If he wasn’t he wouldn’t keep talking about it.
Trump: Anyone that saw what was happening over there would understand why they want to make a deal.
Reality: Anyone who saw what was happening to the stock market, bond market, oil prices, fertilizer, gasoline, diesel, and the polls would understand why Trump is desperate for a deal.
Trump: But they say, ‘Oh we’re not talking to’. Anybody would know they are talking. … only a total fool, and they’re not fools.
Reality: There are no direct talks. Iran will not even talk with Kushner. There are efforts to get talks, not talks. Every news agency in the world reports it that way. Trump did let a bit of truth slip in. “They’re very smart, actually, in a certain way. And they are great negotiators.” Yes, it is smart to not give into Trump demands. It’s smart to mock him whenever possible because all Trump understands is force. And Iran is doing that to Trump’s obvious frustration.
Trump: They should have done it [make a deal] two years ago or they should have done it when we first came into office.
Reality: Do you see what’s happening here? Trump is trying to pin this on Biden. But it was Trump who tore up a deal that even Trump’s Secretary of Defense and top general said was working.
Trump’s First Term Flashback
- Trump’s US State Department: Iran honoring the terms.
- Trump’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Iran honoring the terms.
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Iran honoring the terms.
- Arms Control Association: Iran honoring the terms.
- All US European allies: Iran honoring the terms.
- Every other signee of the accord: Iran honoring the terms.
- Trump’s top general Gen. Joseph Dunford: Iran honoring the terms.
- Trump’s Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis: Iran was complying with the terms of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal
Those are the facts. Dunford and Mattis testified before Congress that Iran was honoring the terms of Obama’s JCPOA deal.
For discussion and links please see What If Iran Just Honored Obama’s Nuclear Deal? Would We Be at War?
Spare me any sap from other sources. Mattis and Dunford were not doves. And they went on Congressional record.
Key Details on Mattis’ Statement and Context:
- Testimony (October 2017): Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mattis said, “I believe that [Iran] fundamentally [are] in compliance with its nuclear deal”.
- Contradicting Trump: Mattis, a career hawk, advised that staying in the deal was in the U.S. national security interest, putting him at odds with President Trump’s public criticism of the agreement as an “embarrassment”.
Iran only began stepping back from JCPOA limits (e.g., higher uranium enrichment levels, reduced IAEA access) after Trump unilaterally withdrew in 2018 and reimposed sanctions—not before.
This sequence is well-documented in IAEA reports and international statements that include Trump’s top general and Secretary of Defense.
Trump Does Not Negotiate
Trump does not negotiate, he demands. And his demands are usually so ridiculous the other side cannot agree to them.
And that’s where we are in this pathetic effort to achieve a deal by demand, when we already had a working deal.
What Are Trump’s Goals?
That’s an interesting question. Trump’s goals change every day if not every minute.
However, it’s clear Trump’s top goal is to open the Strait of Hormuz.
Ironically, the strait was open before Trump started his idiotic war based on advice from Kushner, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded war as well.
Trump went against top military advice, just as he did when he tore up the deal.
Now that Iran shoved this into Trump’s face with a brick, Trump is desperate for a deal. But Trump is incapable of backing down or admitting error.
Importantly, Trump is not even in control of the war, excuse me, I mean “excursion”. Israel, Arab states, and Israel all have a say in where this leads.
What Are Iran’s Goals?
This one is easy.
Iran’s overriding goal at the moment is “inflict as much pain on Trump as possible”.
Once you understand that simple fact, you understand why Trump is in a very tough spot.
I came up with that goal. It’s possible others have figured that out as well.
Modern Warfare
The US has overwhelming military capability (on paper), but lags Iran on easy to build drones that cost 5 percent of defense missiles.
The US is years behind on missile production. But drones are cheap and easy to build. Iran has help from Russia.
In a hissy fit of arrogance, Trump rebuffed Ukraine’s offer to help. “We don’t need their help in drone defense,” he told Fox News. “We know more about drones than anybody.”
The arrogance of Trump is a sight to behold. No one can tell him anything because he knows everything.
“If you look at the defensive capabilities that are available, we have a long way to go to get to where Ukraine is at this stage,” said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.
Trump Wants a Speedy End to the War He Started
WSJ: President Trump has told associates in recent days that he wants to avoid a protracted war in Iran and that he hopes to bring the conflict to an end in the coming weeks.
Nearly one month into the war, the president has privately informed advisers he thinks the conflict is in its final stages, urging them to stick to the four-to-six-week timeline he has outlined publicly, according to people familiar with the matter.
Four-to-Six Weeks?!
Now that’s quite the arrogant hoot, isn’t it.
Trump started the war on February 28. The war has lasted 26 days so far.
To end the war in 4 weeks means the war ends in 2 days. If it’s 6 weeks, Trump has 2 weeks plus 2 days to end the war.
At 3:51 AM this morning, I asked Trump Wants a Speedy End to the War He Started. OK, So What?
Trump Tells Aides He Wants Speedy End to Iran War
When you start a war, the other side has a say when it ends.
Please click on the above link for more discussion of drones and how the war started.
Just hours ago, Trump said he wanted a speedy end to the war. I accurately asked “So What?”
Now Trump says he’s “Not Sure He’s Willing to Make a Deal with Iran.” The sides are not even talking. The only discussion is a framework for who will be involved in the talks.
Yet, Trump is sticking with the notion he can end this war in 4-6 weeks. MAGA cheers. And they cheered when Trump said “no more wars.”
They cheered when he said he would release the Epstein files. And they cheered when he refused to do so.
They cheered when Trump said he would cut energy prices in half. And they cheer now when Trump says higher inflation is a “small price to pay”.
Meanwhile, let me remind you Iran’s overriding goal at the moment is “inflict as much pain on Trump as possible”.
Core MAGA can clearly take lots of pain and lies. But the rest of the county won’t.
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Addendum – Conversation With Grok
My Key Idea: Iran’s overriding goal is “inflict as much pain on Trump as possible”. And they will.
So, Is it Ground Troops?
We were already on a path to dollar copitulation and austerity. This will just speed it up.
The US is probably going to get a good whipping when all is said and done with this war, and deservedly so. Hopefully, it will be the wakeup call for us to pull back and re evaluate our place in a new multi polar world. Maybe the next congress (as useless as they tend to be) will rein in the executive branch and saner heads will prevail.
We can hope.
The epstein files were getting too much attention so a portion of this war was a distraction. Bebe has dirt on trump and many powerful people from the Epstein days. but there is something under the radar here. he took one of the largest oil reserve nation in the world in venezuela . Now he is limiting the middle east oil production. He is stopping and railing against alternative energy. there is something at play here in the control of oil. He seems to favor Russia also a huge oil reserve nation. So is part of this about control of oil. He even said we get rich when oil prices go up.
Clearly the US military-industrial complex has the capability to produce low-cost weapons like Iran’s drones. But crony capitalism will never let the US taxpayer off the hook. It must be expensive mass-produced (and mass -expended ) hardware to protect the industry’s profits in perpetuity, however much longer that lasts.
The goal in Iran, much like in Vietnam, is not to win, but to drag it out as long as possible to maximize profits. Whether that leads to an American revolution or not remains to be seen. It is possible that crony capitalists will be hoist on their own petard. One can only hope.
King Nut Job has lost it so Bad he’s just knitting with one needle (and ready for the Mara Largo Care home).
If you didn’t see the nut job is so full of vanity nto only has he had the law changed so he can issue his (asshole) likeness ona 250 yr coin; but being unable to wait for that to come out – and Bessett such a lying snake too – they changed the laws so they can now start having their signatures on the currency.
I AM GOING TO START CAMPAGNING TO REFUSE HIS CURRENCY. 249 YEARS OF OTHERS HAVING SOME TIMILITY AND CLASS TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER THEIR TERM IS THE ONLY ONES DESERVING RESPECT.
REFUSE TRUMP CURRENCY.
Before Idiocracy, there was Americathon:
https://www.imdb.com/video/embed/vi152421145/
They predicted some things correctly, but alas, no Hebrab alliance has formed.
Never heard of it, may have to check it out!
This AI-generated trailer needs to be turned into a movie:
https://x.com/CarlZha/status/2036645730908307590?s=20
I haven’t seen it since the 70s… Might be a little rough, but it does have Harvey Corman.
He can’t operate in this environment. He’s used to working under an umbrella of a court system. That’s how he gets away with fraud, rape, and more than I care to name. But it’s always a legal system that gets manipulated.
He doesn’t have that. He also doesn’t have the court of public opinion. He’s screwed.
This is his legacy. Global ridicule of America.
Another TACO extension indicates that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed for another 10 daze. 10 daze is 200 million barrels of crude that are never pumped and all that fertilizer that will not be produced, Helium? None of that. And LPG? NOPE!
So the depth of the shortages, disruptions and economic chaos continues to be magnified. The shortages keep hitting more dominoes and damage is exponential through day 90 when the global economy will break.
This is the end of Day 28… 560 million barrels of oil have been removed from the market. The ghost fleet is now fully contracted and heading toward delivery ports.
There will be quite a few empty tankers awaiting orders,
When it comes to any and all Trumpian doublespeak…
MAGA types are some cheery m@ther f@ckers…
otherwise, not so much.
“It ain’t over till the fat lady sings” The Irainian mullahs have decided to quietly pray and are just waiting for the Vocals from the Donald. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbQ-U2QmTE
Trump can say whatever nonsense he wants but until the Straits is open and oil drops below $100 for a sustained period of time or at a bare minimum, oil futures drop, he is a complete and total failure.
If oil remains high, we’re going to have an economic apocalypse. And before clowns chime in and say, “it didn’t happen with Ukraine/Russia” then you don’t understand a damn thing about how the oil market works.
The only good thing is I’m going to profit handsomely but even with profits, $150 oil is still painful all the way around.
Watching ‘Lil Marco sitting next to Chrump ™ — hysterical….the look on his face…as all chances of his 2028 run are ground into dust
Lil Marco has been groomed for being President for 40 years. Who would have thought Trump would get elected?
He will never fill those shoes…
LOL
Since Trump doesn’t even have a dialogue with Iran, he’s clearly delusional and making imaginary deals confined within his own cranium.
To some degree it is masterful how Trump can control the markets, bringing oil prices down again when there is no real news in the war. He makes it sound like they are close to a deal over and over again in order to prevent the markets from collapsing, even though there are no talks actually happening. How long can he keep this verbal juggling going?!
HFT-Algorithmic (now mixed with AI) trading uses words that appear in the news flow to make rapid fire trades.
Those in the know have told him some of those trigger words.
Fascinating. That would appear to make the stock markets little better than a casino for a day trader.
Algorithmic trading is part of it, but I bet there’s a more active component as well. It’s so rigged.
Trump just posted this to his truth social account about 45 minutes ago…
As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116297295543838717
He just keeps saying the same shit every other day or so. What a dumbass.
The “boots on the ground” happens this weekend, no matter what he says – unless the Ospreys can’t even make it to the target.
Bad weather forecast for this weekend in the theater, that and the market today is why he TACO’d
Looks “good” to me. https://www.accuweather.com/en/ae/dubai/323091/weather-forecast/323091
Rare desert tornadoes heading straight for the Middle East and could disrupt Iran war
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/rare-desert-tornadoes-heading-straight-043052746.html
With sandworms!
Golly, he sounds serious this time!
Israel has made a point of assassinating the most moderate leaders in Iran. They want the leadership to be as extreme as possible to reduce public support. It is a dangerous game to play.
israel is assassinating anti regime Iranians and not just moderate regime types.
if they or Trump are dumb enough to bomb the electrical grid they will lose whatever Iranian support they have.
They’ve already lost it. People are generally opposed to genocide. Invading Lebanon is going to hurt them.
They’re petrified of the 45,800 level getting tested again and then again.
After the third time it’s gong to be like a finger poking through toilet paper.
Why hanging on to every word of the man in the Oval Office? He is clearly not the one making any decisions. Biden’s puppeteers used an auto pen, but Tump’s use yiddish.
AP has now reported that Iran is “begging to make a deal” as of five minutes ago, 3:30 PM Eastern time. Is anyone keeping track of the flip flops at this point? It’s got to be in the dozens at least.
“Flip-flopper in Chief”
AP is merely reporting that Trump insists Iran is ‘begging to make a deal”.
AP is not a propaganda news outlet (yet).
BREAKING – Huge TACO, Trump pauses invasion until April 6th
“As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Translation: I am postponing a war crime (destroying civilian infrastructure) until April 6.
Did you see the trading action in the Futures markets and the VIX? Over a 500 point whipsaw!
I had some outrageously speculative VIX call offers fill in a nanosecond as the entire VIX options market went without a bid for a few moments.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while!
Iran has to assume Trump is still planning to attack this weekend. Can’t trust anything Trump says.
I doubt that the Iranians hang on to every word coming out of the foul mouth of the pussy grabber in chief. No, I don’t mean Clinton.
Yes, they’re watching actual movements of the two Marine Expeditionary Units, as well as the 101st and 82nd airborne divisions.
Iran doesn’t listen to Trump – they’re too busy tracking US troop movements.
They have figured out that his superpower is being a distracting, loud-mouthed moron.
Some things transcend culture and religion.
Captain Bullshitman!
Imagine what would have happened to the markets tomorrow if Trump had not said this. Who would stay invested with an imminent invasion far more likely than a peace agreement?
Looks like Monday’s equities jump was nothing more than a downed F16, F18, F35, KC135 dead cat type bounce.
Just look at the long history of American movies
Everyone in this country loves an underdog
And USreal ain’t the underdog here
This painful contradiction is becoming more and more painful for Chrump ™
The equity/gold/crypto valuation crash that is ongoing and is following an identical 1929 self-ordered decay fractal pattern is secondary to extreme overvaluation of assets pushed higher with terminal cycle 500 billion dollars of private funds’ investment; many of the funds which are now worthless. In the big picture, assets are being sold to address the dollar denominated bad debt undergoing leveraged default. The silver lining is the timing of the Israeli-Trump war; most will blame those little dictator incompetents for the global crash. The Iranians and US citizens will have a No-Kings-No-Despots victory in Nov 2026.
What does your fractal pattern analysis show for the “Crash Timeline”?
Same as 1929 … starting17 Feb 2026 …
You are really full of it. No one is paying down any debt. You lying POS.
What I am preparing for is the medium term curtailment of 20% of global energy production, 25% of fertilizer’s and ingredients, 8% of Aluminum, 55% of sulfuric Acid (critical product for industrial applications. 35% of helium which is critical in chip manufacturing and many other medical applications.
This is looking like a disruption and shortage that has no chance of being resolved in the next three months even if peace were achieved tomorrow.
GLTA
Yup, it’s looking like the COVID lockdowns all over again but not because of a virus, it’s because of no energy/fuel.
Got PUTS?
If this continues for much longer, even if it is solved, the world will need to take time to get supply chains back up and running again – and in the meantime there will be inflation.
As a hyper-narcissist, Trump must feel he is in high heaven. Every one of his brain farts is big, market-moving news, notwithstanding that most of his commentary makes no sense.
It’s a great example of Keynes’s beauty contest at work. People react to nonsense not because they think there is any information in it, but because they assume that other people will react to the nonsense.
Iran’s oil exports have reached around 1.5 million barrels per day despite the impact of the ongoing war involving the US and Israel, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency
>It’s going to be a Republican bloodbath in November.
Good God, I hope so….
And then the DNC controlled Congress will let the war go on…
– “They are begging to make a deal, not me. They’re begging to make a deal.” > So make a damn deal then!!
>> This is an obvious issue for me with Trump. He just can’t let something go, or has to have the last word, which typically points a finger, so to speak! He makes it very difficult to defend his actions at times… Who cares who’s better at what, or how, but I do know this, We All Bleed Red! One death in this fashion, is one too many in a civilized World. By all sides involved! Get together like the grown up Adults that you are, and figure out how to meet someplace close to a middle, and STOP with the killing…
You make the assumption that Trumps mind is that of an adult. It is not…
It is the mind of a malignant narcissist, his predatory actions on children show that he is stunted and not capable of empathy.
I do appreciate the shift in your tenor…
😉
Let’s say Trumps mind is not that of an adult. What does that say about all the people actually running the country, and it’s not just simply the President?
And that would make sense if not for the teeny tiny issue that Donald Trump does not acknowledge “middle” as a concept. If it’s not his way he’d rather lay naked in the highway. Whatever it takes no matter how illegal or unethical, that is the rule.
It’s not just the President. When things are said about the country in a negative fashion, in regards to the President, it’s inclusive then of Americans that Voted for the President, All those in Politics that support the President, All the people in other countries that respect our President etc.
You can’t throw the Country and more than half of its Supporters out the window for having agreements on a boatload of issues, as that is a Democracy after all. Then claim the less than half and unelected in a landslide people are right now. It simply doesn’t work that way. He was already the
president once, so people knew what they were getting.
Why are we defunding our own Country? Why are we giving away our Countries money? Why are we not asked for identification to vote? Why do we give away our countries Tax-dollars to other countries people for free? Why do we give away Tax-dollars to people in our own country for free?
Point being, there are many questions we could and maybe should be asking, but we are not. Why? Let’s ask all the tough questions if we are going to ask any of them…
Well said, I agree.
Killing someone that is begging you to stop killing them and their children, then boasting that you are “blowing them away”?
Is murder!
By any reasonable definition, Trump is becoming a mass murderer.
Yes, and Trump supplying weapons and funding we knew was going to be used to bomb defenseless Palestinians (as well as destroy hospitals, schools, and other buildings) is complicity in war crimes. Biden and Trump are both war criminals, as well as those who actually coreographed the genocide: Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben-Gvir and others.
It’s usually around this time of day when JuJu shows up to glorify the genociders.
Haven’t seen him yet. I hope his hovel in Tel-Aviv hasn’t been struck by an Iranian missile?!