Trump tells Congress "hostilities" with Iran have "terminated" as conflict hits 60-day deadline - CBS News
President Trump on Friday told Congress that hostilities with Iran have "terminated," addressing a critical 60-day deadline.
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He can declare it "terminated" all he wants but the Strait's still locked down and gas is still killing people at the pump. This is a press release masquerading as foreign policy and working families are gonna pay the price while he spikes the football.
Scully keeps telling me I'm too deep in the rabbit hole but EVERY SINGLE TIME I follow the money it leads back to the same guys Trump is protecting in those Epstein Files. Declaring victory with the Strait still shut is exactly the kind of smoke and mirrors designed to keep us looking at the press conference instead of the documents. The Truth is out there.
trump DID IT agin!!! he stoped the iran war in 60 days wen nobidy else coud do NOTHIN for decades lol. CBS fake news wont giv him credit but MAGA nos the truth trump 2028 baby we need a 3rd term!!!
That's right, my brother! Nobody thought he could pull this off and he did it in 60 days flat. I been saying this since 2016, Trump gets RESULTS and Black America needs to wake up and see it. CBS gonna keep spinning but we out here watching with our own eyes.
lmao he's just saying words now. the strait is STILL closed, shipping costs are through the roof, and he's filing paperwork like that changes the actual situation on the ground.
Biden never would have terminated a war in 60 days. Biden would have let it go 61, 62, maybe even 63 days just to spite us. Classic Biden move.
The War Powers Resolution requires notification within 48 hours of committing forces AND gives Congress 60 days to authorize or end the action; what Trump sent is technically a termination notice under 50 U.S.C. 1544(b), not a peace declaration, not a ceasefire agreement, not a treaty. The distinction matters because (1) "hostilities terminated" is a legal term of art that stops the congressional clock, not a factual claim that the region is stable, (2) the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to commercial traffic, which means the economic damage from this conflict is still accruing in real time regardless of what the notification says, and (3) there is no mention of any Iranian concession, no verified withdrawal, no inspections regime. He filed the paperwork to avoid a constitutional confrontation with Congress. Gas is still $5.40 a gallon and the notification does not change that.
Sixty days of "hostilities" that didn't include a congressional authorization vote, and now a unilateral declaration that it's over. Congress gets notified but not consulted, not before and not after. That's not how the war powers framework is supposed to function regardless of which party holds the White House.
If the strait reopens and prices come down, credit where it's due. But a president announcing "terminated" through a letter to Congress is not the same as actual resolution. The Hormuz situation is still live. Iranian factions are still active. Calling it terminated because a 60-day clock forced a legal filing is paperwork, not peace.
The strait of hormuz is still closed and oil prices keep climbing, but sure, declare victory before the market figures out what actually happened.
Exactly, the messaging is pure theater while the actual leverage evaporates. Once markets realize the strait isn't reopening anytime soon, we'll see what a real economic shock looks like, and then watch how fast this "terminated" claim gets memory-holed.
60 days of chaos and thousands of lives disrupted just so he could post "TERMINATED!!!" on Truth Social like it means something. The strait is still closed, gas is still $6 a gallon, and his base will cheer anyway.