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.
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
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.
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
Come on, at least we’re not shoving helicopters off the side of aircraft carriers into the ocean…………yet.
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
The Art of the Deal – ala Finger Painting
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?)
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.
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?
What happens when Israel continues invading Lebanon. Will Trump just ignore the whole region and move on to Cuba? Bring back that Donroe Doctrine talking points to Keri everyone off balance
As bad as this MOU appears to be, it is better to extricate ourselves from the quagmire known as the Middle East. What a complete waste of US manpower and resources while US citizens & the rest of the world have to contend with higher oil prices.
I don’t know that it’s bad for us. It’s much better for Iran. Congratulations to them for understanding how to negotiate.
Everything about this was a complete waste. It has cost so many lives.
Energy independence would extricate the US from the Middle East. Jimmy Carter was ridiculed for this.
So this is how you bankrupt a Casino. I had no idea
Keep watching. You are about to learn how to bankrupt a thriving first world super power.