{"id":3285,"date":"2026-06-02T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:25:20","slug":"trumps-ennui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=3285","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Ennui"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Netanyahu listened, kinda sorta<\/strong>: The Israeli military has stopped striking Beirut, seemingly buckling under pressure from President Donald Trump and others to deescalate lest a regional ceasefire be threatened. (Iran will not make a deal if Israel continues to strike allies.) Still, Israel’s prime minister has decided to maintain the military offensive against Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon, issuing new evacuation orders Tuesday for Nabatieh, one of the region’s largest cities, indicating that more strikes will follow.<\/p>\n

“Trump later said on social media that Israel and Hezbollah had\u00a0agreed to stop their attacks on each other,”\u00a0reports\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, “while the Lebanese government\u2014which does not include or control Hezbollah\u2014said a new truce was taking shape.”<\/p>\n

“I spoke with President Trump tonight,”\u00a0said\u00a0Netanyahu yesterday, “and told him that if Hezbollah doesn’t cease its attacks on our cities and civilians\u2014Israel will strike terror targets in Beirut. This position of ours remains.” Everything looks very tenuous right now, and so naturally Trump is\u2026losing interest!<\/p>\n

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As for Iran:\u00a0<\/strong>“I don’t care if they’re over, honestly,”\u00a0said\u00a0Trump, referring to peace talks with Iran. “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” Trump told CNBC on Monday, saying the negotiations “started to get very boring.” (Reminds me of his wife’s\u00a0iconic jacket\u00a0that she wore to a\u2026migrant detention center.)<\/p>\n

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“Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,”\u00a0wrote\u00a0Trump on Truth Social yesterday. “But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively ‘chirping,’ at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever. Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – It always does!”<\/p>\n

The White House is trying to make this a catchphrase:<\/p>\n

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