“The Iranians don’t seem to realize they have no cards, other than a short term extortion of the World by using International Waterways,” President Trump huffed on Truth Social on Friday. “The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!”
It was vintage Trump: Pathetic bluster, a pointless threat, a misunderstanding of the situation, and an inability to grasp what those on the other side might be thinking.
There may eventually be an agreement to interrupt or even end the Iran war, mostly because the president is so desperate to extricate himself from the conflict he blundered into. But it won’t be because Trump is such a terrific dealmaker. In fact, the man who made his reputation on “The Art of the Deal” remains the world’s worst negotiator, and we’re seeing the proof right now.
While he wasn’t present at the brief negotiation in Pakistan between Iranian and American officials (he went to a UFC fight instead), everything about it had Trump’s fingerprints.
Aaron Rupar1d
here's Trump entering a UFC event as Vance says that negotiations with Iran have failed
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The US was represented by charmless Vice President JD Vance, Trump’s real estate buddy Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, whose talents for anything other than influence-peddling on a massive scale remain imperceptible. They apparently arrived insisting that since we are big and strong and the war has been a spectacular American success, Iran should make all the concessions. And when Iran failed to do so after a single day, Vance et al packed up and went home.
Aaron Rupar1d
JD Vance: "The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the US. So, we go back to the US having not come to an agreement ... they have chosen not to accept our terms"
