\u201cNo, sir,\u201d Bessent dutifully replied. He was disagreeing with a notion Trump<\/a> had just posited, but it was clear from his tone of voice that he didn\u2019t mean to disagree. He was simply trying to make real-time sense of what his boss had just said, which happened to be the semi-coherent and utterly baffling: \u201cThe stock market is more brilliant than anybody there is, including people on this stage, apart from me. What do you think, Scott, is the stock market more brilliant than you?\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, sir? No, sir? What, sir? It was clear at that point, just a couple of minutes in, that nobody \u2014 including his own team, or perhaps especially his own team \u2014 had any idea what Trump was talking about.<\/p>\n This was probably the most alarming Trump appearance to date. He was breathless and incoherent, ill-seeming and off-piste. He spent 32 minutes justifying his deal with Iran to the world<\/a> before mentioning a single discussion that had taken place among the G7 countries<\/a> at the summit, and the justifications spoke for themselves.<\/p>\n \u201cThis wasn\u2019t a three-month deal,\u201d he declared. \u201cThis was years in the making. You know why? Because I was the one who killed General Soleimani.\u201d<\/p>\n Soleimani, who has been dead since 2020, enjoyed repeated cameos throughout the proceedings. Trump called him \u201ca mad genius\u201d and \u201cthe boss of Iran,\u201d returning to him again and again like an aging musician who keeps bringing audiences back to his biggest hit because the new material isn\u2019t getting much applause. The implication, of course, was that Soleimani represented a job well done to Trump himself. This deal? Not so much.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s leadership, Trump explained, had suffered because \u201ctheir first set of leaders is all gone. Their second set of leaders, all gone. Their third set of leaders is a little bit gone.\u201d That\u2019s not technically \u201cregime change\u201d but it sort of is, he added, if you think about it.<\/p>\n The asides got more and more bizarre. <\/p>\n \u201cBibi Netanyahu is a good man, by the way \u2014 he gets a little excited,\u201d gave way to, \u201cAfghanistan is kissing our ass.\u201d <\/p>\n He thanked Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin for \u201cbeing very neutral\u201d during the Iran war, then immediately added that people probably wouldn\u2019t like seeing him thank them. <\/p>\n He interrupted himself to swat a fly.<\/p>\n On lifting tariffs on Iran and investment in the region, he was defensive and juvenile: \u201cLike, what are you gonna do, say you can never invest in a country?… We did $2 trillion of damage. Somebody\u2019s gonna have to help them out.\u201d<\/p>\n On whether it was true that the deal with Iran includes money for the country to rebuild, he started with, \u201cWe don\u2019t give them money\u2026 What happens is with time, if they behave\u2013\u201d and then seemed to lose his trail of thought and went back to, \u201cRegime change? The first group is dead. One morning they were having breakfast\u2026 They thought we\u2019d never bomb during breakfast.\u201d<\/p>\n In the middle of his speech, he took 10 minutes to mention the war in Ukraine, Ebola, the global economy, and his favorite piece of recurring fan fiction: that world leaders repeatedly tell him behind closed doors that they used to laugh at the US, but now it\u2019s \u201cthe most respected country in the world.\u201d Then he pivoted swiftly back to Iran, musing, \u201cIf they don\u2019t behave, they\u2019ll get hit again.\u201d <\/p>\n It was hardly Churchill at Yalta.<\/p>\n The recurring villain of his piece was the media, which supposedly are all in a grand conspiracy to ignore or devalue his personal victories. \u201cIf they said \u2018Praise be to Allah, Donald Trump is the greatest president ever\u2019… then the New York Times would say \u2018Iran had a great victory\u2019,\u201d he said, during a long segment about fake news.<\/p>\n When it came to questions, one reporter mentioned that the wording of the deal doesn\u2019t actually seem to say much about not developing a nuclear weapon, despite Trump\u2019s claims that it will ensure the country never has one, \u201cpermanently\u201d. Trump responded that so long as America doesn\u2019t have a \u201cweak, pathetic president,\u201d then Iran definitely won\u2019t have nuclear bombs, because when they start developing them, he\u2019ll just flatten their cities again.<\/p>\n \u201cSo you\u2019ll bomb if they don\u2019t comply, but there\u2019s nothing specific in the deal, is that correct?\u201d the reporter followed up.<\/p>\n \u201cDoesn\u2019t have to be,\u201d Trump responded. Because why would a deal that stops Iran from developing a nuclear weapon in terms much more stringent and powerful than \u201cBarack Hussein Obama\u201d ever allowed make explicit mention of nuclear weapons? Below the bombast and the egotism, the impression that the president seemed to give was: I don\u2019t know and I\u2019m tired. Words don\u2019t have to mean things, because bombs exist. Anyway, it all leads back to me, and once I\u2019m out of picture, do you really think I give a crap?<\/p>\n Besides the other, worrying things this might imply about the 80-year-old\u2019s ailing health, this speech also made extremely clear that Donald Trump himself doesn\u2019t think he actually got a good deal. <\/p>\n But hey, remember General Soleimani?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-645283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Trump](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2282076538...jpeg\")
Trump appeared breathless and incoherent during his G7 closing speech on Wednesday (Getty)<\/p>\n![\"Trump](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1189044710.jpg\")
Trump seemed fixated on \u2018Barack Hussein Obama\u2019 throughout what should have been his moment to tout a peace deal in principle, albeit for a war he started (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n