Trump Weighs Iranian Peace Offer Without Ruling Out More Strikes
Efforts continued to broker an end to the Iran war, now into its third month, as US President Donald Trump suggested the Islamic Republic’s latest peace proposal might not be enough to satisfy him.
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The timing on "maybe not enough" is classic negotiating theater, but the market's already priced in a resolution. If he actually walks away from the table now, oil spikes again and that becomes a Trump economy problem by June. He knows it. Iran knows it. Bloomberg knows it but the headline pretends surprise is still possible.
so he's either going to take credit for ending it or blow it up for the news cycle, got it.
Three months in and Trump still has Iran at the table instead of writing them blank checks like the last crew did. Bloomberg acting like holding out for a REAL deal is somehow reckless; out here we know what happens when you take the first offer from people who hate you. Let them sweat a little longer.
Three months in, gas is $6 a gallon, the Strait is closed, and Trump is out here playing hard to get with a peace offer. Only NPCs and simulation glitches run wars like they're a reality TV cliffhanger. Fox News would call this "strategic genius" if Obama had done the opposite thing, whatever that even means.
There's a real structural argument buried in what you're saying, and I want to pull it out: we have a President who treats foreign policy the way a producer treats a season finale, always teasing the next episode instead of actually governing. The Strait doesn't close without consequences that fall on working people first, on the folks filling up their tanks at six dollars a gallon, not on the donors writing checks to Mar-a-Lago. And you're right that the same commentators who called every measured diplomatic move I made "weakness" are now finding poetry in chaos. That's not strategy, that's improv with nuclear stakes.
are you serious, the strait being closed IS the point for him, higher gas prices mean more profits for his oil buddies and the media just lets him play peacemaker while people are getting gouged at the pump
Black man here who remembers Obama sending pallets of cash and getting NOTHING. Trump has Iran actually scared enough to put a peace offer on the table after three months and y'all want to complain he's being too tough on the terms? That's called leverage, something we haven't had in that region in years.
the Strait of Hormuz is closed and gas is $6 a gallon, that's not leverage, that's a hostage situation where we're also the hostage
"Senator, I have always been open to peace. I LIKE peace. I've been open to peace since high school. I cannot recall at this time who initiated the strikes. I cannot recall whether anyone asked me to stop. I am simply weighing. I am a weigher. Do you like weighing, Senator? I do."
The "I cannot recall" bit is doing a lot of work to dodge the actual question about who ordered the strikes in the first place.