President Donald Trump said in a Sunday post to Truth Social that Iran’s response in the latest round of diplomacy with the U.S. was “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,” raising the prospect of renewed fighting in the Middle East.
Trump ordered a blockade of Iran on April 12 after the Islamic regime imposed a toll on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. An April 7 ceasefire deal, announced hours before a deadline for the Iranian regime to agree to a series of terms, remains in effect.
“I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump hit at the Iranians in his brief post.
The United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on Feb 28 after talks regarding the Islamic regime’s nuclear weapons program broke down. Trump and other administration officials maintained Iran posed a threat to the U.S. without providing specific details, even after they repeatedly asserted the Iranian nuclear program was “obliterated” after the June 2025 strike on multiple Iranian nuclear sites.
Vice President JD Vance, Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner met with Iranian representatives in Islamabad for 21 hours April 11, but failed to reach an agreement for a permanent end to the conflict. Trump cancelled a second trip for Kushner and Witkoff on April 25, saying it would be “time wasted,” and also sounded a pessimistic note about negotiations during a May 1 gaggle with reporters.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright maintained during a Sunday “Meet the Press” appearance that Iran had material for multiple nuclear devices and nearly 1,000 pounds of enriched uranium. He also told host Kristen Welker that ending the Iranian nuclear weapons program would lower energy costs for Americans in the long term.
Witkoff alleged Iranian representatives had made the revelations about having sufficient material for nuclear devices in a March 2 interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. The Trump administration has not offered evidence to corroborate Witkoff’s or Wright’s claims.
In another post to Truth Social early Sunday afternoon, Trump appeared to be losing patience with Iran, appearing to say former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden gave the regime a “new lease on life.”
“Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit ‘pay dirt’ when Barack Hussein Obama became President. He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life,” Trump posted. “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and 1.7 Billion Dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter. Every Bank in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out — It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian Thugs had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck.”
“They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President. He was a disaster as our ‘Leader,’ but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden!” Trump continued. “For 47 years the Iranians have been “tapping” us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer!”
Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent resigned March 17 over the conflict, maintaining in an X post that Iran didn’t pose an “imminent threat” to the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said American forces launched strikes because an Iranian response to Israel’s planned attack could have targeted U.S. forces, and the Trump administration elected not to “absorb the blow.”
On April 7, The New York Times reported that, despite skepticism from Vance and other top officials, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinced Trump to join Israel’s planned military operations against Iran during a Feb. 11 White House visit.
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