I’m not sure he knows anything about “deals.”

It’s just a word he throws around

Just trying to be helpful.

In fact, I think that's very likely. Hegseth and others lied to him before the war and about the war. And they are probably lying about this too.

If you or your people had any knowledge or common sense you would have expected them to fight back.

Is Iran different than most other countries whom have bluffed, stalled, promised, but not exactly signed any deals this second term?

Indeed, Iran has shown more balls in dealing with Trump than most of our media and corporations. But why? Because Trump is a corrupt and deeply dishonest person. He signed a trade deal with Canada and Mexico first term and didn't honor it. Why would any country, company or person trust Trump's word? They shouldn't and so Iran won't. They will only accept a deal they want on their terms. Anything else would be stupid, because Trump isn't going to honor any deal anyways. Do we all understand that yet, America? Who knows?

I am assuming that because of the decline in his physical and mental health, that's the reason why he's not out doing a MAGAt rally a couple of times a month, or whatever his schedule was in his first term.

He NEEDED that hit off of the crack pipe. He NEEDED to get out there and run through his tired, predictable material, and hear the adoring laughs and cheers of his morons in their red hats.

Just because his mobility decreased, the need did not. He keeps crafting these tales of how all of these authoritarian fascist dictator "strongmen" love him to pieces.

Xi insulted him to his face, it took him 24 hours to realize it, and when he did, he claimed Xi was referring to Biden.

I hate to replay this disclaimer every time I talk about Iran, but I also know "who" and "what" THEY are. I don't admire them. I don't respect the atrocities they have committed. That said, they are not Republicans in Congress or 1/3 of America in red hats. They're not impressed with Trump. They're not afraid of Trump. And we can never, never forget that the way Trump BEGAN THIS WAR was by murdering 160 innocent Iranian children.

I'm sure they haven't forgotten it either.

I'm sure you're familiar with the classic film Night of the Living Dead. If you have the opportunity to pick up one of the DVDs, like the Criterion Collection version, you can hear commentary about how director George Romero considered the movie to be an allegory for the Vietnam War. Briefly summing it up, America did the "HOO-RAH" thing, we're going to go over there and wave our flag and kick some ass and in very short order they realized they were out of their element, slogging through swamps, getting slaughtered by a country that was more prepared for them than they imagined. That's the "overwhelmed by flesh-eating zombies" part, the allegory, the metaphor, what have you.

And that's what happened with Iran.

We had a 79 year old rapist who thought the war would be a shits & giggles distraction from Epstein, and a drunken sexually abusive Fox "News" InfoTainment personality CosPlaying as G.I. Joe, and it was gonna be shock and awe and the MAGAts would cheer, except none of that happened, and now he doesn't know how to get out of it. and Iran is the cat with one paw on the mouse that's struggling to break free.