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He always chickens out. Good.

Trump talked to some Pakistani leaders, and that was good enough. He has announced a ceasefire.

President Donald Trump said he’d agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday, less than two hours before his 8 p.m. deadline to destroy a “whole civilization.”

Trump said the ceasefire agreement was made on the condition that Iran agree to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz.

Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!, Trump posted on Truth Social.

The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East, Trump wrote.

See? He thinks he won already. Iran said nothing.

How about if we just ignore him from now on and focus on the Epstein files and getting him out of office?

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Comments

  2. stevewatson says

    OK, so give him the Nobel Peace Prize to make him happy and distracted while serious people get on with cleaning up the mess he’s made.

  4. robro says

    And as I predicted in the earlier post today, the markets are back up sharply after hours. Real people are being killed so he and his co-conspirators can game the market, and!!! keep The Files out of the news cycle.

  6. Hemidactylus says

    I had recently fallen into darkness contemplating the potential usage of a nuke. I’m glad it apparently won’t happen (Trump’s conditional vagueness…) but putting yourself there takes a lot out of you that can’t be gotten back. I was having Thirteen Days flashbacks.

    Trump needs to have the 25th invoked and be placed in a rubber room or a home for deranged ex-presidents. Someone on a previous thread compared recent events to George HW Bush (via a Dana Carvey spoof) and the first war on Iraq. This ain’t it. He wasn’t insane and at least had more competent cabinet members (excepting Quayle at least). HW would be a RINO now.

  7. John Morales says

    Hemidactylus:
    “I had recently fallen into darkness contemplating the potential usage of a nuke. I’m glad it apparently won’t happen (Trump’s conditional vagueness…) but putting yourself there takes a lot out of you that can’t be gotten back. I was having Thirteen Days flashbacks.”

    I myself had no prob.
    No putting.

    Heck.
    This is nothing like the bad old Cold War days, worry-wise.

    —

    As Robro points out, markets kinda show the scene.
    There was no panic. Just fluctuations.
    Large-scale, they price in future expectation via the wisdom of the collective; narrow-scale, the fluctuations can be arbitraged.

    Trump says X, oil goes up. Says Y, oil goes down.

    (Many such oscillations, many market movements)

    —

    Many grifting methods, for example, I did notice big players bought up a lot of the tariff refund ‘futures’ for pennies in the dollar. All that stuff within hours. It’s been noticed, but hey.
    Profit first, then the disputation and the appeals and so forth.

    —

    And it’s always in 2-3 weeks, with Trump. The meme.

  8. Hemidactylus says

    John Morales @7
    I’m not so sure. With JFK during the Cuban missile crisis we were on the brink, but at least had competent cabinet members pushing back against Curtis LeMay and trying backchannels with the Russians. They legit brought us back from the brink.

    I’m not about to play up the Iranian regime’s side as noble, but with Trump we are far more like a bellicose unhinged Khrushchev than a reserved JFK. In a nutshell, back then we feared the Russians, though the LeMays and Goldwaters were scary too. Now it’s coming mostly from inside the house in horror movie parlance.

    I suppose the overall nuclear threat dynamic is different, but I was worried, and still am, that we will become the first use aggressor with that with an unhinged POTUS. I am not as afraid of being struck in the short term, but such usage changes the world for the worse.

  9. imback says

    I am still worried the ultraorthodox Iranian leadership will consolidate its position, the ultrarapacious US leadership will consolidate its position, the ultramalicious Israeli leadership will consolidate its position, and in a couple of weeks we’ll have circled the drain back to the same standoff but even further down the pipe.

  10. JM says

    The point of contention looks to be control of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump wants unconditional opening and that is what he has claimed. The Iranian government has said that the Strait will be under Iranian military control.
    Iran seems to be angling for getting some degree of permanent control of the Strait out of negotiations. Iran wants to charge every shit going through a fee and have some say in what and who gets through. They will probably settle for just a fee because the money would be great for propping up the government as oil becomes less valuable.
    As a side bonus having some degree of control of the Strait would give them a lot of ability to evade sanctions. It would give them lots of excuses to meet with ships in the Strait, making transfer of black market items easy.

  11. John Morales says

    “Iran wants to charge every shit going through a fee and have some say in what and who gets through.”

    :)

  12. StevoR says

    Wonder what Oman and the UAE think of Iran wanting to control the entire strait given they also have one side of it too? If Iran is getting “tolls” for allowing ships through and they aren’t and Iran is saying they control it and yet they contain its southern shores?

  13. John Morales says

    Excerpt from: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?smid=url-share

    The president opened the meeting, asking, OK, what have we got?

    Mr. Hegseth and Mr. Caine ran through the sequencing of the attacks. Then Mr. Trump said he wanted to go around the table and hear everyone’s views.

    Mr. Vance, whose disagreement with the whole premise was well established, addressed the president: You know I think this is a bad idea, but if you want to do it, I’ll support you.

    Ms. Wiles told Mr. Trump that if he felt he needed to proceed for America’s national security, then he should go ahead.

    Mr. Ratcliffe offered no opinion on whether to proceed, but he discussed the stunning new intelligence that the Iranian leadership was about to gather in the ayatollah’s compound in Tehran. The C.I.A. director told the president that regime change was possible depending on how the term was defined. “If we just mean killing the supreme leader, we can probably do that,” he said.

    When called on, Mr. Warrington, the White House counsel, said it was a legally permissible option in terms of how the plan had been conceived by U.S. officials and presented to the president. He did not offer a personal opinion, but when pressed by the president to provide one, he said that as a Marine veteran he had known an American service member killed by Iran years earlier. This issue remained deeply personal. He told the president that if Israel intended to proceed regardless, the United States should do so as well.

    Mr. Cheung laid out the likely public relations fallout: Mr. Trump had run for office opposed to further wars. People had not voted for conflict overseas. The plans ran contrary, too, to everything the administration had said after the bombing campaign against Iran in June. How would they explain away eight months of insisting that Iranian nuclear facilities had been totally obliterated? Mr. Cheung gave neither a yes nor a no, but he said that whatever decision Mr. Trump made would be the right one.

    Ms. Leavitt told the president that this was his decision and that the press team would manage it as best they could.

    Mr. Hegseth adopted a narrow position: They would have to take care of the Iranians eventually, so they might as well do it now. He offered technical assessments: They could run the campaign in a certain amount of time with a given level of forces.

    General Caine was sober, laying out the risks and what the campaign would mean for munitions depletion. He offered no opinion; his position was that if Mr. Trump ordered the operation, the military would execute. Both of the president’s top military leaders previewed how the campaign would unfold and the U.S. capacity to degrade Iran’s military capabilities.

    When it was his turn to speak, Mr. Rubio offered more clarity, telling the president: If our goal is regime change or an uprising, we shouldn’t do it. But if the goal is to destroy Iran’s missile program, that’s a goal we can achieve.

    Everyone deferred to the president’s instincts. They had seen him make bold decisions, take on unfathomable risks and somehow come out on top. No one would impede him now.

    “I think we need to do it,” the president told the room. He said they had to make sure Iran could not have a nuclear weapon, and they had to ensure that Iran could not just shoot missiles at Israel or throughout the region.

    General Caine told Mr. Trump that he had some time; he did not need to give the go-ahead until 4 p.m. the following day.

    Aboard Air Force One the next afternoon, 22 minutes before General Caine’s deadline, Mr. Trump sent the following order: “Operation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts. Good luck.”

  14. StevoR says

    PBS Newshour on this :

    President Trump is backing off, for now, from destroying Iran’s civilian infrastructure and wiping out its civilization. He also said he agreed to suspend bombing for two weeks if Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz. Trump called an Iranian proposal for a 10-point peace plan “a workable basis on which to negotiate.” Nick Schifrin reports.

    Source : https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-agrees-to-2-week-ceasefire-backs-down-from-threats-to-destroy-irans-infrastructure

  15. StevoR says

    Also :

    Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Wednesday it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war. Its statement said it would negotiate with the United States in Islamabad beginning Friday.

    “It is emphasized that this does not signify the termination of the war,” the statement said. “Our hands remain upon the trigger, and should the slightest error be committed by the enemy, it shall be met with full force.”

    Source : https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/irans-supreme-national-security-council-says-it-has-accepted-two-week-ceasefire-in-the-war

  16. StevoR says

    There was an interiew with an Iranian on that PBS newshour ep too which I thought was there ^ but isn’t (?) & can’t seem to find..

    @ 6. Hemidactylus : “Trump needs to have the 25th invoked and be placed in a rubber room or a home for deranged ex-presidents.”

    The Fletcher Memorial Home perhaps?

    Now there’s a Pink Floyd classic song that could do with an update!

  17. StevoR says

    @ ^

    Aha! This is what iwa slooking for!

    President Trump made a violent and extraordinary threat on Tuesday, saying he would erase an entire civilization if Iran didn’t agree to his terms for a deal. He backed down from that rhetoric later in the day, agreeing to a two-week ceasefire. To discuss the reaction in Iran, Geoff Bennett spoke with special correspondent Reza Sayah in Tehran.

    Source : https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-iran-is-reacting-as-trump-pulls-back-from-threat-to-wipe-out-civilization

    Giving at least one Iranians view on this.

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