I expected surrender, but these video excerpts go far beyond humiliating. 
Trump Leaved Door Open to Iran Enrichment
“It’s a little hard when other people have it, other adjoining states have it, and you’re not letting them have it for purposes of electricity and things like that. You have to use a little common sense,” said Trump during a press conference at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France (June 17, 2026).
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on our right. Notice the look of indifference if not outright disgust at this announcement.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is on our left.
Hamas Behaved Pretty Well
Why Not Stick Around for the Signing?
“It might not be the kind of document I should be signing. If it doesn’t work out, I’m blaming JD.”
It’s Their Money!
Doocy: Can you explain what the difference is between giving Iran U.S. dollars and unfreezing U.S. dollars?
Trump. We have taken a lot of their money and we have their money. It’s not our money. It’s their money. And we froze it. At a certain point in time, I guess we are going to have to give it back. If we didn’t give it back, no one would ever invest in the dollar again.
No Choice
We Would Run Out of Reserves in Four Weeks
No Fees (fine print for 60 days)
Ben Shapiro
Shapiro blasts the agreement for five distinct reasons.
Shapiro: In my opinion, the Vice President of the United States, the chief negotiator of this particular project has not well served the president.
Stomach-Turning Event
Avoiding Economic Catastrophe
Trump needed to stop the economic catastrophe that he started.
Hegseth Fights One War
Reflections on the Art of the Deal
We Have to Sign the Deal to See What’s In It
Unfair for Iran to Not Have Missiles
Trump: I’m saying that if other countries have them, it’s a little bit unfair for them to not have some.
Was “Unfair for Iran to not have some missiles” on your bingo card? How about “Hamas is behaving pretty well.“?
It’s difficult to overstate how one-sided this deal is.
I was one of few who expected a deal when Trump kept announcing them. I felt Trump had no choice.
But it’s hard to overstate how stupid Trump looks with some of the statements he made today.
This was a total surrender by President Trump.
Addendum
I left off something I have said at least three times: From where Trump was, waving the white flag of surrender was his best option.
Trump could have gone one further and admitted a mistake instead of trying to package horse hockey as a victory.
Who cares? The whole shit-show is built on manufactured lies and manufactured self-inflicted wounds on behalf of Israel.
The U.S. went to war with Iran over a nuclear weapons program its own intelligence agencies said did not exist, then the president claimed 38 times — over roughly 14 weeks — that Iran had agreed to abandon a program it was not running, while no agreement materialized. As of June 13, 2026, a 39th claim has been made with a signing ceremony reportedly being arranged, with the same level of skepticism warranted as the previous 38.
The Underlying Absurdity: Iran had zero highly enriched uranium when Trump scrapped the Obama-era nuclear deal in 2018. Iran built its enriched uranium stockpile — the thing Trump is now claiming to have solved — in direct response to his first-term withdrawal. He created the condition he is now repeatedly claiming to have resolved.
The $1.7 billion settlement in 2016: This was not a new aid package to Iran. The Obama administration settled a decades-old dispute over money Iran had paid before the 1979 Iranian Revolution for military equipment that was never delivered. The settlement consisted of about $400 million in principal (Iran’s original money) plus roughly $1.3 billion in interest. The initial $400 million was delivered in foreign currency and became famous as the “pallets of cash” story. Officials said cash was used because sanctions made normal banking transfers difficult.
The much larger amount of money associated with the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA): The Obama administration did not send Iran tens or hundreds of billions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers. Instead, sanctions relief allowed Iran to regain access to its own assets and oil revenues that had been frozen abroad. Estimates commonly ranged around $100 billion, though the amount Iran could actually access immediately was lower.
Donald is a serial liar.
All correct and understood by most here; other than the cult morons.
Makes ya wonder doesn’t as if planned: the destruction of the world economy, destruction of the American economy, increasing the national debt when already at or nearing crisis levels, and destroying American (Western in general) credibility.
Yet every nation gears up.
Then the plug was pulled to upset a region that holds a lot of the world’s supply of oil. This simply isn’t over now. No, it’s only one the beginning.
Trump threatened total destruction of Iran’s culture, and suddenly he sounds like their good will and tourism ambassador. Yes, we did that with Joe Stalin and the USSR, but at least it took awhile.
This whole thing was so ill-conceived, this kind of outcome (or worse) was inevitable. Lessons of decades of global experience were ignored by the stable genius. W Bush started ignoring world opinion in the GWOT 2003, and now, there’s no perceived need for even a nod at widespread US buy-in. So, politically, the GOP is running in circles from Trump’s insanely subjective pivoting. He’s got them all dancing ludicrously. It perfectly befits him.
But I don’t put it past him to completely u-turn in another week. The GOP can complain, but at least they aren’t having global economic collapse laid at their feet. This shows Trump’s weird compulsions will put him pretty far out on a plank that may break behind him.
this will fail because Iran has nothing but accelerating momentum to leverage global decline and foist even more benefits from the worldwide captive audience.
Trump, being irrational at best and extremely lacking in creativity,will start the ground war and say that midterms are postponed because Zelinskyy did it and nobody complained so…
Overton window shift
One congressional Republican tells me: “Conservatives on the Hill are stunned that Vance would erase all of Trump’s military victories in such a terrible deal. Trump effectively won the war and at the 11th hour Vance is negotiating his way to a loss.”-NewsNation
That is some hilarious revisionism. Those neocons should tell us how Vance forced Poor Widdle Trump to sign, Vance even threatened to take away Trump Wumpy’s lunch money….
This is an AIPAC technique to have its minions in Congress blame Vance for everything and allow Trump to save face by throwing him under the bus
It’s as if none of this was known before the 28th of February. While I do not know, I smell a situation where Trump may have been properly advised and just did what he wanted. Result now, we have the greatest economy ever and the greatest military every, even better than before he rebuilt both of them in his first term, NOT. Well, now the world knows our economy is a mismanaged debt constrained mess and our military was rebuilt with dated armament. Way to go Trump, except in this new game you’re playing for the US citizen, you cannot declare bankruptcy on behalf of the country and start over at our debtor’s expense. This is a disaster beyond Viet Nam. Trump is a lying incompetent basket case. He just put frosting on the midterm election cake. I hope democrats are better, but I admit hope in not a good strategy for about anything.
While starting this illegal, immoral and unjustified war was a complete betrayal by Trump of everything he campaigned on, it’s almost worth it to see the Israel-firsters in total meltdown. Hopefully Trump enjoys their weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth so much that he carries it to the next level by cutting off all aid to and cooperation with the Zionist regime the next time they heartlessly attack innocent civilians – which will probably be in about two hours. I can dream …
“While starting this illegal, immoral and unjustified war was a complete betrayal by Trump of everything he campaigned on“
Meh, Trump has immorally betrayed just about everyone around him and business partners his whole life. So this is expected. Exactly why someone would have to be a moron to vote for him.
So Professor Pape says this agreement is even worse than it appears, because it will take a couple of months for the tankers to get around the world and unload. World inventories will continue to decline for the next few months. Which only increases Irans negotiating powers. In 60 days, they can use Israel and Lebanon as an excuse to close the Strait again with catastrophic consequences. They will likely require the dismantling of our bases and the end of support for Israel. They will become the regional hegemon of maybe the most important place on the planet. And all of this is catastrophic for America’s position in the world.
So how come the price of oil is falling? Traders aren’t always right, but they typically know more than the people who just talk about it.
Half the traders are right and half are wrong. They are on both sides of the trade after all.
Oil rose at first because of fears of severe shortages which have only happened in a few isolated instances so far. Severe shortages have been prevented through massive inventory drawdowns. Problem is, those inventories are running low and will continue to draw down in the coming weeks. It’s going to take some time to restore production and shipments, and there is no guarantee we can get back to where we were before the war.
I am watching US inventories with great interest. The largest commercial US storage is at Cushing. It is now at operational minimum of 20 mb. The US SPR has drawn down to 340 mb. Operational minimum is unknown but is estimated between 250 mb and 300 mb.
US diesel inventories are at 23 year lows. US gasoline inventories are 6% lower than the 5 year average.
We are not far from shortages. If they occur, then we could see prices head back up. Time will tell.
Trump demanded Unconditional Surrender and he accomplished his goal. he just never said which side he was referring to.
if they don’t take the money, we’ll bomb them..
I was wrong about Trump. I thought he would sign a crappy deal and claim victory when in fact he signed a crappy deal and admitted defeat!
If he did that more frequently he’d be less hated. His line about blaming JD was funny because it was true. And Little Marco (the Cuban John Bolton) stood there stone-faced knowing his 2028 prospects are somewhere between far-fetched and nonexistent. Besides he’s too short to be president by modern standards.
At least there’s comedy gold in these times, watching these guys gyrate.
Yes, must be tall, and possess what the strategists call “charisma”.
Trump is 6’3″ and 230 lbs, like a typical NFL QB
The camera takes away 4 inches and adds 80 pounds
israel is a useful idiot and pawn for pax amerika. nothing more. as we retreat from mideast, zion goes bye bye.
Inshallah. https://e3.365dm.com/26/04/768×432/skynews-parsons-jesus-statue_7226523.jpg
Fascinating! As many said, Iran had all the leverage, and successfully used it. More importantly, they will continue to use it. Trump’s folly has turned them into a much stronger player on the world stage to the detriment of the other countries in the region, and the entire world in general.
As expected, oil prices are dropping on the hope that flows will resume soon, and the belief that we could be in surplus by 2027.
In the meantime, Iran is sending out their tankers, and collecting payments on those sales and previously sanctioned sales.
But the strait is not yet “fully” open, and tankers from the other countries will not return to normal shipping levels anytime soon. Trust in the ceasefire is low. It will take time to see if we can get back towards “normal” levels of oil and other product shipments.
Global inventory drawdowns continue. US SPR down to 340 mb, and will continue to drop to the 250 mb level, according to the agreed releases. I am watching with great interest to see if the caverns can hold together as levels drop (lots of speculation, no one really knows for certain).
Commercial inventories are still dropping and will continue to drop for many weeks. Cushing is at the 20 mb operational minimum. Watching that as well.
Refinery crack spreads for diesel have dropped a bit, but are rising towards all time highs for gasoline again.
Patiently waiting for shortages to appear, and higher prices. Currently using some of my above average cash position to add to many stock positions as oil prices drop.
I expect higher oil prices this summer, even if the ceasefire holds. And a spike in prices if the ceasefire doesn’t hold.
And if/when a hurricane threatens the gulf? A significant spike up.
If a hurricane hits oil infrastructure at category four or five?
Game on!
Iran’s surrender terms seem quite generous. After all it was the US that provoked and started this war, even dastardly using negotiations to obscure its first strike. Iran had the leverage it seems, to demand that the US leave the region entirely and stop supporting Israel with intelligence and military hardware. This may happen anyway.
Its funny how analogous international relations can be to Junior High School. Trump is the bully / blowhard that has been harassing the small kid all year, finally provokes the kid into a fight who then beats the crap out of him, and pantses him to boot. Israel is the evil girlfriend egging the bully on.
Hopefully the evil girlfriend will fail in trying to convince the bully to get back into the fight, and he will be smart enough to dump her.
+100 or Bingo… 😉
If you deem Iran’s terms generous, what would you have advised them to demand, in terms of marginal concessions from the USA? A Trillion dollars in reparations? Immediate Strait tolls? Some other stuff?
How about get all of their money unfrozen now?
I would have advised them to demand the evacuation of all US military personnel and abandonment of all US military bases in the Gulf Region, as well as the end to all military equipment transfers and intelligence support to Israel.
honestly i am rooting for trump now. my rage at his war has now turned into delight and support. no other president, on purpose or not, could achieved the dismantling of american empire in my life time. hopeful this changes the politics in usa as well. how can we justify this bloated military anymore when it’s clearly antiquated? Hopefully now we stop hearing war talk about china from congress. who could say such things after all this with a straight face?
I think Trump’s expectation for the future welfare state is a warfare state: millions of guys in uniform, available to pull off some frightening domestic stuff on behalf of an elite-driven “restructuring”. I would see it as similar to what USSR-Russia transition did to the wide populace: draw up the capital drawbridge. Rights for all are too costly. Of course they will dress it up as something other than that.
I live in a city and region with a military fiscal backbone going back 120 years. The propaganda here is deafening. All local news is jacked up 24/7 about sporting-military-adjacent “events” this summer. They are trying to drown out any other kind of popular culture. It is all fighting sports, car races, electric guitar wails, garish graphics, militarist stuff.
5D chess yet again from the Master !!!
Israel wrecked on the global stage — twas the plan all along.
I nailed this call long before Mish (loz)
Still waiting for one of Mish’s seven prior “recession” calls to pay off (lolz x 2)
Wouldn’t it have been easier and make Trump look like a strong leader by simply telling Israel to fuck off in the 1st place?
You MAGA chuds really are in a cult. Wow…
What, snap your fingers and AIPAC vanishes? How does THAT work? Trump was going all in on campus speech, etc., in the opposite direction to what you imagined here. Of course, he is not above pivoting in the weirdest times for the strangest reasons.
Put it back in your pants, Joe.
dude, that acorn is forever hidden in the bush
South Park has decade worth of material here…
Trump has totally folded in a sudden capitulation and reversal to everything he has been saying since day one of his war.
Israel should be paying war reparations to Iran, Lebanon and the US in my opinion.
BTW, by throwing JD under the bus, Rubio moves to the favored son in the Republican Party.
Does Hegseth now run the “Department of Capitulation”?
Or, “Depleted ordinance Department”?
Possibly the ” I wish we would have thought this through Department”?
Yttrium stockpiles are now depleted and Military jet engines can not function without being re-coated. Sucks to have ignored the need to stockpile essential rare earths before starting a protracted war. Also sucks to alienate trading partners.
I vote for ” I wish we would have thought this through Department”, but “We can’t win a war but we can shoot fishermen at sea Department” sounds good too.
Not to mention we are very good at murdering schoolgirls and rescue workers.
Men who are capable of fighting back? Not so much.
How about War Comprised of Shooting Ourselves in the Foot Department.
Rubio may be the biggest douchebag in the administration. Zero principles and willing to do or say anything for money and power. So yes, definitely the prime Republican candidate.
Rubio cleverly ducked and let JD take the hit. You know, Rubio was a protege of Jeb Bush. Yeah, that Jeb Bush. The little fella can run some fancy broken-field patterns between these big fat oafs.
Luckily, your opinion does not count towards anything.
Why did Trump lose Jojo?
Why did the chicken cross the road? The answer is unknowable until he/it tells us.
JoJo,
Sorry that your little killing Zionist heart is broken. The entire Middle East is now solidly against you and your bully big brother just went into re-hab.
You are on your own and raping or killing schoolgirls has consequences!
Reminder ~ ~ ~ “Broken Hearts are for Assholes” Frank Zappa
wristwatch, Crisco, pud
Meowrrp?
Their first movie had Saddam and Satan as the antagonists. They could easily make another movie with Satan and Trump as the new antagonists. Comedy gold.
SP’s Season 28 was Satan having Trumps love child…
Fantastic!
Who is Ben?
He doesn’t care who US vice president is.
He doesn’t care who US president is.
We all know he cares only state sponsored terrorist genocidal country, Israel.
The Iranian Regime has killed millions of its own people over the years, including significant number so non-Shia minorities. More than 50k this year along!
Doesn’t that count as “genocide” in your addled brain? Why aren’t you calling out the Iranian Regime? Because you have a one-track mind and focus?
Where is the evidence for this loony statement?
If he had evidence he would post it
Fifty million, fifty thousand …five. Either way it’s bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGsJriTylsY
Wake up! Evidence isn’t required on the internet. Anyone can post anything they believe as is seen often here and elsewhere. 😁
lies lies and more lies. anyone who believes iran “gunned down” 50k has obvious cognitive impairment. why not just say 100k or a million since we are just making shit up over here
Well, in his defense, he did say “millions over the years”. It is total BS, but it is something he’s had to tell himself to give himself permission to be happy about killing all those little school girls.
How to show a big Military win to distract us from this loss ? —-Will America invade little Cuba next?
Can’t allow the Epstein files to come fore again, after all.
Rubio can lead a staged San Juan Hill type performative publicity charge. And the USA people will again be left with the dinner check.
This was sad!
Trump is treating the Iranian Regime the same as he rationalized support for Putin 18 months ago, when he threw Ukraine under the bus. Now he is throwing Israel under the bus. Clearly son-in-law Kushner didn’t have much influence in this agreement. Rubio and Hegseth weren’t on board. And Israel politicians aren’t happy and are blaming Netanyahu.
Was Trump really so afraid of oil prices and inflation affecting the midterm elections that he bent over for the Iranian Regime? Or did Qatar’s birbe of a $300 million airplane (and whatever other local Arab oil potentates deposited into Trump’s bank account) come into play here?
Trump simply realised he held no cards, and that his opponents were only too happy to call his bluff. Trump forgot to read Sun Tzu’s art of war (not a thick book at all, probably even he could have handled it), who teaches that you should not go to war of you don’t know in advance how you’ll win it. Trump had no plan, Hegseth had no clue, and there you go: Iran is now a lot richer and more powerful.
I think what Trump, Putin and other modern day blowhard’s such as Xi and Kim Jong-Un are or should be learning is that you can’t win a war, even with modern weapons, if you refuse to put boots on the ground and people in those boots are not allowed to rape, pillage and kill anyone who stands against you (and their families) as the armies of history did.
We are close to being able to field humanoid fighting robots. I wonder what would have changed if we sent in a few hundred thousand Terminator type autonomous robots? Certainly the UN and pacifists everywhere would complain mightily!
But you can win a war. Iran just did.
And we aren’t close to being able to field “a few hundred thousand Terminator type autonomous robots”. The (whatever number) robots ‘we’ might field in the future lack the survival abilities and the self healing.
Which means you better field them wherever they can’t be shot at.
History is replete with examples of how empires die when new weapons are introduced. There will be no terminator style robots. AI messes up without a human in the loop. But drones, they are the 21st century equivalent of fighter aircraft and every country is making them cheap except those who are held back by the greed of the military industrial complex. God is merciful and He keeps extinguishing fires of war every time it is kindled and does not like corrupters
no the key take away is that $5M worth of drones can take out a $20B aircraft carrier…. the iran military is thousands of times more cost effective than our WW2 era equipment. jets/tanks/carriers OUT. Drones/missles/submarines IN.
Kiev just hit an oil refinery outside Moscow with drones. Half a dozen columns of flames and smoke are going up, with what they call “oil rain” falling on the city. Thinking of 1943 over Germany, we had our flyers falling out of the sky in horrible numbers, and had to pull back for months, until we got P-51 escort fighters there. We faced awful losses trying to take out the Ploesti oil refinery in Romania.
So we had 3 aircraft carriers in the region. WHY didn’t the Iranian Regime choose to make a statement, show how powerful they are by taking out one of these ships?
Logic is not a strong suit of you Iranian Regime fanboys.
So here’s the part you’re missing Jojo. We, the Americans, are supposed to be the good guys, not the bad guys. We want to maintain a self-image of the good Christian nation, protecting innocent women and children from wonton slaughter. Not the bad guys, like the Iranians, gunning down protesters in the street. Going in and raping and pillaging makes us the bad guys. So its not just a question of winning or losing a war, the bigger question is who you are as a people. Are you leading the world to be a gentler, kinder place, or a world full of death, mayhem and destruction? Hard concept to grasp for some, I get it.
But for many in Israel the endless perception of existential threat shifts the equations of psychology, etc. (Is this a self-fulfilling prophecy, driving itself ever-more-intensively? Is there an alternative? I don’t have the expertise to say.) The USA has almost always had an easy walk over adjacent weaker parties, allowing the luxury of a more seemingly gentle good guys self-talk rhetoric. I suspect this would all be a bit academic to someone watching their family burnt to cinders in Dresden or Hiroshima.
Very well said.
War is place to trample the weak and hurdle the dead, not be a kinder, gentler military force!
When you play at war, like you, the UN and so many other weak-kneed pacifists want, by instituting all sorts of rules and regulations, basically pussy-foot around, wars become unwinnable and many more civilians die, get injured, go hungry, etc.
Better to exert maximum force and get the war over with.
P.S. The US is NOT a “Christian nation”. It was originally a Protestant nation and is now a mixed religion with a significant number rating themselves either agnostic or atheist.
No one has ever been secure around Israel. Nothing but war and terror has come from your vicious, self centered country. Always pretending to be victims…
I hope Trump pulls all US support and lets your tribe fight your own wars.
Your nation state had the opportunity to live peacefully, but instead chose intolerance, aggression and genocide. Reap what you sow!
I hope Congress pulls all handouts from farmers and gives the money to Israel.
Lame attempt at a realityczech
Both Iran and Venezuela are more about controlling China’s access to energy. All smoke and mirrors otherwise. More than likely, there is some sort of back-door deal. The US can wipe Iran off the face of globe in the matter of hours but toyed with them. The US has more leverage as they enter into more economic conversations with China.
Governments consistently lie. I have zero confidence that all the facts have been released. Therefore, analysis of crap that the government spews is pointless.
China is building a massive infrastructure of nuclear power plants and solar/battery. EV auto sales surpassed ICE autos for the first time this year in China. The price of used ICE vehicles are collapsing because no one wants them. In 10 years, China will be essentially independent of fossil fuels. So the best laid plans of “controlling China’s access to energy” will work just about as well as our military did against Iran. They’re both 20th century thinking in a 21st century world. America is being bypassed because Americans are wedded to ideas from the 20th century that made them wealthy and powerful. Just like the British were wedded to 19th century ideas when the US bypassed them. And it’s not going to change, it’s just human nature.
There is only one asshole who is stopping windmllls and solar projects from being built.
Have you ever seen the Deep State neo-cons give up? In expanding NATO, against Cuba, in calling Taiwan a “country”? This is a Minsk Accord deception delay to enable Iran Regime Change part III Return of the Shah.
Remember even Obama screwed the Iranians on sanctions relief before 2017. The Fat Lady ain’t even in the dressing room yet.
Wait until oil reserves and weapons stocks are (more) full and they think the pipeline workarounds are ready, then Blammo!
Isaac Chotiner interviews Shimon Riklin, an anchor on the Israeli right-wing Channel 14, on the Iran deal
Shimon Riklin, an anchor on the country’s right-wing Channel 14, and a Netanyahu ally, thinks America stabbed Israel in the back.
https://archive.is/fglc3
Israel delenda est.
Iran War – It’s too much winning
You may even get tired of winning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWVEddn0LM
It’s about time for the end of the empire – the Epstein class have been running this con for their own benefit for decades. What has the average American gotten for all the blood and treasure spilled? No healthcare, no jobs, AI everywhere and 40 trillion in debt.
The no healthcare and no jobs and the debt were not imposed by a foreign alien government somewhere. We are where we are because someone here (a whole lot of someones here) wanted it that way. We have seen the enemy and he is us.
Meanwhile Israel has free healthcare, free college and a booming economy. Suck on that goyim.
Not to mention, free American money and diplomatic cover.
We have to stop billionaires. there should be none – once you make a billion you should get a trophy that says you won capitalism and the rest should go to the society that made your wealth possible. I was a repub many years ago. but I will be voting social democrat from now on. Greed at that level is a disease no one needs that much money. period . It is the fatal flaw in our system and will either end in tax legistation or in violent revolution
Nay, for 250 years next month. Or do you think that the founding fathers weren’t screwing their slave young women and girls?
Now things get worse only because he is changing from a guy who thought he could do no wrong and insisted he should be our king and dictator to a guy who no longer cares what anyone thinks about anything he does. Hes a sick man who is gonna disappear pretty soon, and that has all the safety of a guy who gets behind the wheel not giving one hang about who he hits and kills.
He has dementia….have a little charity
Only when he steps down. No charity for the evil of waiting for the 25th to be 86ed or, worse, the end of his term.
I was a naysayer and Mish was a yea sayer. I thought it would take a lot longer for Trump to cave. Well into the fall. Once again, Mish was right and I was wrong. Obviously this “deal” – such as it is – could still be sabotaged by Israel, so we’ll see how it goes.
Isn’t amazing we went from “we have all the time in the world” to “we would run out of reserves in four weeks” to signing the MOU 48hrs early.
The speed of deterioration in will on the part of Trump was a sight to behold, but usually things of this nature where one side in a three man war wasn’t even at the negotiating table, doesn’t end well.
And after it’s been signed Iran is demanding the US put a leash on Israel.
We’re no closer to solving this issue as when it all started. And there’s some serious road blocks to the success to this thing, and maybe purposely so.
I believe between the months of July, August, and September it will be evident that peace was never gonna happen.
I said from the beginning of Trump’s second term that he would crash the global economy. It’s something republicans seem to do every decade, their incompetence has only one outcome.
Even Trump agrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRndMiVIB-w
It’s why “Got Puts” and “Got Exit Strategy” are frequently posted. Just give it time…
Do worry, Trump & Walrus will find a way to make things even worse.™
Oh and I read Iran gets $425 billion not $300. Imagine what you can do with all that chedda’ !
Drudge headline says Iran ordering Israel out of Lebanon. Lol. Total humiliation.
But couldn’t the United States of Amerika have given their money back without a war?
Those school kids needed to die. It was part of God’s plan.
I saw an article of ZH today showing where Iran’s frozen funds were….it claimed to be from some UN or other report. It reported that the US has only 2 billion in frozen funds vs around 20 billion frozen in China. Note it is frozen there because it is in dollars and the US is somehow blocking any transfers. The report diode;t explain this.
Stop it, you’re making to much sense.
Everyone I’d like to have a moment of silence for our friend Jojo, who fell dead from a heart attack when he read the agreement. He was a great commenter beloved by all for the laughs he brought us, and he always knew how to light up my day. Rip JoJo 1932-2026
old bastard, eh. on another political blog we had a get together in to have beers and meet each other face to face in gotham post covid. fun times to meet blog pals face to face.
he lives on! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAXe-dTMWRcqDdt5pYLwHCA
I’m afraid that bloodthirsty Zionists in America who so enjoy killing of innocents by Israel will go into withdrawal if Israel is reined in and start killing random people here. They’ll claim they were driven mad by antisemitism.
“Any reports of my death are greatly exaggerated!” ( ͡°👅͡°)
That did make me smile 🙂
Iran Is a Bigger Defeat Than Vietnam
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/16/iran-vietnam-strategy-defeat/
trump circus family grifters made mucho dinero. all that matters in this crumbling evil empire. trump is a nihilist. like many amerikans are. why the people love him so much. fight night at whitehouse was a hoot. idiocracy. president comacho.
US forces employed Elon Musk’s Grok AI to strike over 2,000 targets in 96 hours during the joint US-Israel war on Iran, according to a written declaration from the US Department of Defense’s digital and artificial intelligence chief, Cameron Stanley.
The testimony does not provide specific dates of when the technology was deployed and whether it coincides with 28 February, the first day of the war, when the US struck a school killing 156 civilians, including 120 school children.
Stanley characterized the use of GrokAI as “a testament to the greatly increased operational efficiency made possible by the Grok Gov Model”.
Stanley’s sworn testimony marks the first time the Trump administration has directly admitted to using Musk’s AI during the Iran war.
just collateral damage to the great riches the grifters of usa made on the war.
Sure a good thing they had Crock or they wouldn’t have won the war.
Yep Grok made a great decision order a war crime and to bomb that school killing hundreds of young girls….Hog’sbreath will be pleased.
So will the trillionaire Musk.
meanwhile: Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in historyhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-raises-eyebrows-after-claiming-he-fell-deeply-in-love-with-egyptian-president-after-meeting-in-hotel/ar-AA25SJWl
Bone Spurs Moloch Orange Jewlius Trumpenstein said he loves “the inflation”, too.
I believe the threat is to pull back unemployment administrative cost funding not unemployment benefits
Come on, at least we’re not shoving helicopters off the side of aircraft carriers into the ocean…………yet.
Maybe they will shove Pete Hogsloth off the side of the USS Gerry Ford.
No, because the aircraft carriers were shoved off the theater for being such juicy targets.
Lets give Trump a small bit of credit for finally doing the right thing, after all other alternatves were exhausted.
Of course all neo- cons and Zio-nazi-cons are losing their ship, who cares what those losers say anyway, they backed starting this idiotic war.
all our wars since 1945 have been just MICC grifting. includes wall street and raytheon and congress………..to believe anything else is really naive. 9.11.01 was a great gift and an inside job……..so obvious they looked the other way after egging them on.
the right thing?? After Months of War, Trump Says Iran Has Right to Nuclear ProgramTrump now says it’s just “common sense” for Iran to have a nuclear program.
https://newrepublic.com/post/212003/trump-iran-right-nuclear-program
Getting out of a lost war is the right thing to do
Losers of wars dont geg to dictate terms, winners do.
You lost, get over it
Sure, they can have a nuclear program but NOT enrich uranium or build a nuclear weapon.
As Iran has always stated, confirmed by all the Usonian intelligence services, and that the US agreed on in the JCPOA?
I applaud Trump big, very big.
taco
Taco
TACO , yes, TACO!
The 🍊’s only virtue is TACO.
Give it a bit. They’ll be back and raring for Round II.
Indeed. I don’t the derisive tone of this article. When a war criminal waves the white flag it should be celebrated, not derided. The next step is to ferry him to international courts and to Nuremberg him.
The Art of the Deal – ala Finger Painting
The Art of the Deal – Bone Spurs Moloch Orange Jewlius Trumpenstein, member of the Epstein Class and President of the Epstein Empire, losses, gets nothing.
They aren’t going to need 60 days. Its been obvious for weeks now that downblending to 3.5% was going to be the “solution” with perhaps Iran shipping some relatively small fraction out of country (ie, selling it to Europe). There will probably be some attempt at limiting the total SWU of their new/rebuilt cascades.
IAEA will return to monitor everything, sign here, done its over.
To me the big question is what Iran does with Pezzbolah. It is in their own interests now to find a way to cut them lose, though they’ll need to maintain face in doing so.
So Trump has admitted:
Where are all the tools & fools bragging about “owning the skies” and “decimating Iran” and all that hooray blah blah blah? Looks like reality isn’t the same as Hollywood. MAGA morons lose again. Tired of losing yet?
“Regan rolling over in his grave….” -Senator Cassidy.
Only Trump could make that happen.
🔆🔆🔆 3-Star Mishelin award issued on this post for excellence.
I’m not getting the “Reagan rolling over in his grave” thing. Reagan treasonously stabbed the Carter Administration in the back by conducting shadow negotiations with the ultra-revolutionary mullahs and then supplied them with weapons in exchange for cash to fund the Sandinista war in Nicaragua. Seems to me Reagan would fucking love what Trump achieved and perhaps wish he had dreamed that big.
I don’t get it either, my point was to illustrate MAGA on MAGA hate and invoking the “saviors” name (Regan) to do it. Trump always looked up to Regan and assumed he would be as loved.
reagan was a lifelong pitchman for GE and a great actor and grifter, too. Donald is the empire’s greatest grifter and con man. the history books will be littered with PHD in Trumpology over the next 500 years.
Trump threw Cassidy under the bus, so that is now a fringe voice to MAGA. Still wishful to say MAGA is splitting down the middle, though we’ll see.
Don Regan was the Treasury Secretary and Chief of Staff for Ronald Reagan.
Reagan was a snake, a stupid snake.
exactly correct. Someone on this site knows their 20th century history. our family(wall street) made mucho moolah with the shah of iran. our gravy train ended with the mullahs. no moolah with the mullahs. the shah was a very generous client.
“Israel gets thrown to the wolves.”
Ha, ha, ha. Oh, that is rich. Israel is the biggest war-monger on the planet, taking over land in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza. Oh, poor Israel.
Face it, the Israelis don’t give a shit about America, and only use the country to obtain its goals.
israel is amerika’s bitch and useful idiot and offhore platform for intelligence…..in the sea of oil we think we control since the 1920s. you have it backwards old sport.
Israel can temporarily occupy whatever it wants but it won’t last the same way the British didn’t hold on to any territory over the long haul nor the French nor Dutch or other colonizers. Heck, “European-Americans” are barely hanging on to North America as hordes of “invaders” take over. Wouldn’t be happening were it not for an internal demographic death spiral.
It’s a numbers game, those that reproduce faster win the race over time. The Muslim community has a 500m to 10m head start in the Middle East.
Trump is throwing Israel to the wolves if you think in 4D. Just wait a decade or two and get back to me on where Israel is then.
correct. 100%. israel won’t last until their 100 years.
“Israel gets thrown to the wolves.”
No, Trumpster gets another golden pager from Bibi…one that works this time.
If JD had an ounce of intelligence he would have told trump, “Mr President, I have but one job, that is waiting for you to die.” “You can have someone on your staff contact me when you’re gone, please don’t take too long”.
Damn fool should have told trump that on Jan 21st.
Sadly intelligence is not on the menu wrt to this republican adminsitration.
JD is actually pretty smart. You try navigating the Neocon power structure that constitutes the DeepState. I hate to see him constantly having to kiss Zionist asses, but no one thrives in the Republican or Democratic parties without doing it.
That’s fair. One would hope though that they would also apply those smarts to governing, not just power struggles.
Dang, a 3 Star Mishelin award.
crumbling evil empire 101. as we crumble, israel will need a new protector or evacuate to brooklyn and miami and los angeles.
Naw JERSEY give em Jersey.
Wow, that would be like Saigon ’75 or Kabul ’21 or Germany ’38. Kind of scary to imagine. That’s a whole different epoch of history.
Taco has been and will always be a buffoon and known as the worst president in our nation’s history. Hard to believe how any human being can support such a deranged character. He wouldn’t think twice of selling out the US for less than thirty pieces of silver.
And would call it a great deal.
Few thoughts:
Well done Trump, Bibi, Hegseth, Rubio…
I heard the Iranians were going to add a provision regarding the name of the Strait of Hormuz, changing it to (in Arabic) “قصة انتصار إيران على الرئيس الأمريكي الشرير ترامب.” which translates roughly to: “The Strait of Iran’s Triumph Over the Wicked American President Trump.” So, in the future, unless you can say it in Farsi or Arabic, please refer to the The Strait of Iran’s Triumph Over the Wicked American President Trump as being open or closed. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Yikes, what a turd sandwich we all are forced to devour. Trump’s rationalizing afterwards is almost worse.
it is exactly what he should have been rationalizing on day one instead of listening to Bibi and the neocon/israel hawks.
Trump surrendering is fine by me. Iran never did nothing to me. The bad part is the blood of thousands of innocent Iranian civilians on our hands and the $1/2 trillion or so this will have cost us in the final analysis.
How about the botch job we did on Iraq? The fatalities and ruin and chaos increased? The horrific expense for us (borrowed, during domestic tax cuts, not unlike Vietnam)? Same old same old.
These are forms of stealth taxation on the American people (wealth transfer), along with blood taxation on us and others. The dividends of our winning wars (WW2, Cold War) have been reinvested in ever-stupider wars.
Absolutely no mention of the dynamic duo–Kushner and Witkoff
“If it doesn’t work out, I’m blaming JD.”
The Adelsons file for a refund.
The Chief Pedophile of the United States has to regard this as a big win for him. No mention of Epstein.
There is no way this MoU turns into a final agreement in 60 days. It’s just impossible to imagine these two countries sitting down and finalizing terms, especially with Israel focused on trying to blow up the deal.
You aren’t counting on Trump doing something like what he did with one of the Palestinian leaders (I don’t remember which one), or with the boy Kim from North Korea. If you remember, Trump told the Palestinian leader, “You lied to me,” which must have been a big surprise to the Palestinian since he thought he was allowed to lie. Again if you remember, Trump flew all the way to Thailand to meet the boy Kim, and then turned around and flew home, leaving the boy Kim to go home by train. I suppose Kim had gotten a bit carried away with the idea that he was actually meeting on equal terms with the President of the United States, and wanted a lot more than he could actually get. It must have been a good lesson to him.
I don’t think Trump is so weak that he is in Netanyahu’s pocket. Netanyahu probably doesn’t think so any more either, though he may have started out with that idea. I hope Trump gives him political asylum when he needs it. The Israelis have a nasty habit of putting their leaders in jail after they leave power.
Does it Matter?
No, if this goes on for 60 days time will be extended, no way Trump wants to go back to war before the election. In that case it won’t matter.
If the MoU blows up in the next 30 days, however, there is a good chance we go right back into the war, or another standoff with the strait closed. Israel will do everything it can to force that outcome. I hope that doesn’t happen. The sooner we send the Navy off to other seas the better.
What is next? – Maybe Trump will actually GIVE nuclear weapons to Iran, along with ballistic missiles, and provide training for the IRGC in how to use them. This is along the same line of thinking where city governments provide needles and “safe spaces” for heroin or meth addicts to shoot up.
Clearly, they need nuclear weapons. They are constantly being attacked and threatened with “civilizational destruction”. Anyone who uses that language would clearly intend harm. (Isn’t that what the pro-war faction ascribes to “death to America” chants?)
Clearly the Iranian ballistic missiles are better than the Usonian ones. As a matter of fact, Iran could teach the US how to make hypersonic ones. Alas, Iran would never.
More of the howling about the U.S. capitulation should be directed at Netanyahu, after all he was the architect of this mess…
Trump is President. You can’t deflect any of the blame. It falls directly on Trump and the Republican’s shoulders.
Trump himself sure doesn’t seem to want to own this turkey. In fact, he seems eager to hand off blame to Vance or anyone else.
At least he knew when to throw in the towel in this big mistake he made. Would you have rather him continue the war?
I have stated that at least three times in other posts.
I will add it here. It’s something I meant to say.
The addendum is still in a defeatist tone, when it should be celebratory. Which tone is it? How do you really feel about it, since you bothered to write an article about it?
these are the same group of people who tariffed uninhabited islands.
did you think they’d be competent enough to negotiate anything, let alone this?
They took away a picture of the world’s most famous B-29 bomber, with the pilot’s mom’s name, “Enola Gay,” painted on its fuselage, because it said “gay.” This is the Beevis and Butt Head admin.