Trump is completely unfit for the job, and yesterday made it undeniable

After days of hiding from the press, tucked away from the American people deep inside the White House, the President of the United States finally found a moment to emerge from seclusion when he took a phone call from a reporter earlier today. Asked about negotiations collapsing over the Iran war, Trump shrugged off the question entirely, saying, "I really don't care. I couldn't care less," because the discussions had "started to get very boring." This was the President of the United States discussing a deadly war that he started, and his response was that he didn't care anymore because it was boring.

Based on the events of 6-1-2026

The Breakdown:

• Trump told CNBC's Eamon Javers he "couldn't care less" about Iran negotiations because they had "started to get very boring"
• His only flash of energy on the subject was a threat to "blow them up to kingdom come"
• Hours earlier, Trump posted on Truth Social that talks were continuing "at a rapid pace"
• While he was posting reassurance, Iran was already moving to suspend its participation over Israel's escalation in Lebanon and threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz
• Trump told the reporter he was "going to ask" Netanyahu what was happening in Lebanon, while in the middle of a regional war his military helped start
• An hour later, Trump posted that he had a "very productive call" with Netanyahu and announced a ceasefire on every front
• Netanyahu publicly contradicted him, saying the IDF would "continue to operate in southern Lebanon as planned"
• Israel's defense minister Israel Katz denied there was any ceasefire in Lebanon at all
• According to CNN and The Times of Israel, the call was heated, with Trump reportedly telling Netanyahu, "you're f**king crazy" and "I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now"
• In private he was shouting. In public he was posting gratitude and "ETERNITY!"
• On gas prices, Trump claimed oil would soon be "dropping like a rock" with "1,700 boats right now that are loaded up with oil"
• Why this is a fairy tale told at our expense while families watch numbers climb at the pump
• How strongmen surround themselves with aides who manage them instead of informing them, until no one is left to say the true thing out loud
• Federal judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia temporarily blocked the Anti-Weaponization Fund
• Republicans in Congress balked, with some signaling they would not move their own immigration and law enforcement funding package until the fund was dealt with
• After Trump met with Speaker Mike Johnson, the DOJ said it would "abide by" the court's ruling
• An administration official described the fund to Axios in three words: "Dead for now"
• A hearing on June 12 could decide the rest
• Why this is what friction looks like when the guardrails are made of people who still do their jobs

Donald Trump held nothing together today. But the rest of the country did. We watched a President treat a war like a chore and a fantasy like a strategy. But we also watched the machinery of accountability creak back to life, just a little, on the very same day. As long as there are people still pushing back, we are not finished. Not even close.

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Transcript

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I'm Heather Clay Reese, and you're listening to Hope for America, where every day I bring you the truth about our politics, our country, and the forces trying to destroy them. Together, we cut through the noise, expose the lies, and stay focused on what really matters, fighting for the survival of our country. After days of hiding from the press, tucked away from the American people, deep inside the White House, while a giant UFC cage is being set up on the South Lawn, the President of the United States finally found a moment to emerge from seclusion when he took a phone call from a reporter earlier today. And when the reporter, CNBC's Eamon Joffers, spoke to him, Trump did not hold back. His lack of impulse control got the better of him. Asked about negotiations collapsing over the Iran War, Trump shrugged off the question entirely, saying, I really don't care. I couldn't care less. Because the discussions had started to get very boring. This was the President of the United States discussing a deadly war that he started, a conflict that has destabilized an entire region, rattled global economic markets, endangered American troops, and left allies and adversaries alike scrambling to understand what comes next. And his response was that he didn't care anymore because it was boring. He did not misspeak and he was not caught off guard. He said it, knowing he was speaking to a journalist who would be reporting on it later. And he still said he did not care because he was now bored with negotiating a peaceful end to the war. The war he ordered, the one being fought right now with real weapons and real bodies, no longer holds his interest. And the only flash of energy he summoned on the subject was a threat. When the conversation turned to whether Iran might still try to build a nuclear weapon, he said he would, and I quote, blow them up to kingdom come. That is the entire range of his thinking now. Indifference on one end and annihilation on the other, with nothing in between. No strategy, diplomacy, or visible grasp of the thing he set in motion. Just a shrug and a threat from a man who would clearly rather be doing something else. And unfortunately for all of us and the entire world, he is the president of the United States, and this is the job he volunteered for, campaigned for, and was ultimately elected to do. And here's what makes that answer so disturbing. Just before 11 o'clock yesterday morning, hours before he told the reporter he could not care less, the president posted this on True Social. Talks are continuing at a rapid pace with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Rapid pace, everything moving along, nothing to worry about. And then within the span of a single morning, those same rapid pace talks became too boring to follow. Now both of those statements came from the same man about the same war on the same day. They cannot both be true. And the reason they could not both be true is that he was not following the negotiations closely enough to know which version of reality he was supposed to be selling. While he was posting reassurances at 1043 yesterday morning, Iran was already moving to suspend its participation in the negotiations over Israel's escalation in Lebanon and threatening to block the Strait of Hermuz, one of the most important shipping lanes in the world, which they already are partially blocking. But we never know where the truth lies from minute to minute. This collapse was already underway as he typed the word rapid. He was not informing us, he was performing for us. And by the end of the day, the performance had changed completely. Because what he told that reporter at midday cannot be squared with why he posted later that same afternoon. Now, during the call, Trump said he was going to ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what was happening in Lebanon. Going to ask the president of the United States, in the middle of a regional war, his own military help start, told a reporter that he needed to find out from another country what was going on. And then a little over an hour later, he suddenly sounded as though he already knew everything. In his first post that day about it, he wrote that he had a very productive call with the Netanyahu and that there will be no troops going to Beirut, and any troops that are on their way have already been turned back. He added that through highly placed representatives, he had spoken with Hezbollah and they agreed that all shooting will stop. Then hours later, he posted the entire thing all over again, and the same claims, now wrapped in gratitude and wishful thinking. He said, I had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu today asking him not to go into a major raid of Beirut, Lebanon. He turned his troops around. Thank you, Bibi. I also had a conversation with representatives at the leaders of Hezla, and they agreed to stop shooting at Israel and its soldiers. Likewise, Israel agreed to stop shooting at them. Let's see how long that lasts. Hopefully, it will be for eternity. It was a remarkable announcement. A ceasefire on every front, it seems right, brokered personally by the President of the United States, and if his post was to be believed, possibly lasting forever. There was only one problem. The people actually fighting the war had not agreed to any of it. According to reporting across CNN, the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel, Netanyahu had publicly contradicted him, saying the Israel Defense Forces would continue to operate in southern Lebanon as planned. His own minister, Israel Katz, went even further, denying that there was any ceasefire in Lebanon at all. So the President of the United States announced a potential end to a war, that the people fighting it were still actively fighting. He declared victory before there was a victory to declare. He took a victory lap around a finish line that did not exist. And the call itself with Netanyahu was not the warm exchange that his thank you, Bibby, suggested. According to CNN, it was a heated phone call in which Trump pressed Netanyahu to scale back the operation and at points use excludes. The Times of Israel reported the words more bluntly that Trump told Netanyahu, you're effing crazy, and I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel. So in private, he was reportedly shouting, and in public, he was posting gratitude and dreams of eternity. The distance between those two things is the distance between what is actually happening and what he wants us to believe is happening. And he does not appear to know or to care which side of the distance he is standing on from one hour to the next. And nowhere was that clearer than when the subject turned to oil in his phone interview. Because while families across this country are watching the numbers climb at the pump, the president described a world that does not exist. He told that same reporter he was not worried about the prices at all. That oil would soon be dropping like a rock, that there were 1,700 boats right now that are loaded up with oil, and that it was going to be like an oil gusher. An oil gusher. That is the picture he painted. Here's the picture the rest of us are living in. Gas prices are devastating families. That cost lands squarely on the people who can least afford it. And people around the world. While the man responsible waves it away with a story about boats and gushers. And maybe he believes it. Maybe no one around him is willing to tell him otherwise. Or maybe he simply cannot be bothered to know or care what's really happening. And we have to imagine it is some combination of all three. But the result is the same no matter which it is. The president of the United States is creating and telling fairy tales at our expense and at the expense of the entire world around us. And I want to point that out. I know this doesn't stay just in our country. This is hurting people everywhere. And maybe the most dangerous part is that nothing he does is new. We have seen this before in other places and other times, not the specifics, but the pattern. Strong men will lose touch with the reality of their own world while insisting right up until the end that everything is going perfectly. Leaders surrounded by AIDS who learn that the safest thing to do is agree, who manage the man instead of informing him, who feed him the version of events that keeps him calm and keeps them close to power. That's the important part. The danger in that arrangement is not only the leader's detachment, it is that no one is left to say the true thing out loud. The reports grow rosier as the situation grows worse. The declarations of victory grow louder as the ground gives way. And the people who could correct the course decide one by one that it is easier to nod along. That is how a country drifts into catastrophe. Not only because the man at the top cannot be trusted, though he cannot, but because the man at the top does not know what is happening. And everyone around him has decided not to tell him for their own benefit. And moments like this remind me why I write these posts every night and why I bring these videos to you. I do not write them for the people who cheer him on, no matter what he does. I'm not writing to change their minds. And I let go a long time ago of the idea that the right words ever would. I write these for us, for history, for our children, and for our grandchildren, for our legacy, so that everyone who comes after us will know exactly what happened here, what they tried to do, and where we stood while they did it. I write so that we remember what we are up against and what we are fighting for. And I am not trying to win an argument here. I'm trying to remind us who we are, what our country is supposed to stand for. I'm trying to create a record and I'm trying to make sure that through all of it, we never lose our own humanity to his cruelty. We cannot let a single one of his failures go unnamed. When the man in charge treats war negotiations as boring, the temptation is to let our own attention drift too. To decide that if he does not care, then there is no point in us caring either. But that exhaustion is exactly what they are counting on. And we cannot give it to them. We hold on to them, we hold on to the facts, even when he tries to replace them with fantasy, because the facts are the record. And the record is what we are going to need. We pay attention to the price of gas, to the state of the talks, and to who is actually fighting and dying, even when the president will not. And we carry all of it towards the midterms because that is the next real chance we have to take back some measure of control from people who have shown us again and again that they will not use it carefully. We do not get to wait for someone else to come save us. We are the ones who will keep the lights on while he sleeps. Yesterday was another bad day for Trump. His relationship with Netanyahu is being stressed. He once again told a reporter something he should never have said out loud. And then the ultimate strike to his ego came yesterday when it was announced that Trump's anti-weaponization fund, the one critics warned, would be used like a pool of money that could end up rewarding the very people who attacked the Capitol on January 6th, was going to be shelved. After a federal judge in Virginia temporarily blocked it, ordering the department to stop transferring money into it, stop considering claims, and to stop dispersing funds, the pressure from both sides grew. Republicans in Congress balked with some signaling that they would not move their own immigration and law enforcement packages to fund it until the fund was dealt with, and it worked. And then earlier yesterday, Trump met with House Speaker Mike Johnson at the White House, and the fund was among the things they discussed. And then later that same day, the Justice Department put out a public statement saying it would abide by the court's ruling, even as it insisted it disagreed. It did not say the fund was finished, but administration officials told reporters something blunter. One of them described it to Axios in three words, dead for now. Whether that holds is another question, because even members of his own party are not satisfied with for now. They want it killed out, right? And they are holding the president's own immigration funding agenda hostage until it is. But the reality is that Donald Trump held nothing together yesterday, but the rest of the country did. This is what friction looks like. This is what it looks like when the guardrails are made of people who still do their jobs, even when the man at the top has stopped doing his. It is not finished. The decision may turn out to be temporary. And there's a hearing on June 12th that could decide the rest. But it moved in the right direction. And it moved because people pushed back. We cannot pretend yesterday was anything other than what it was. We watched a president treat a war like a chore and a fantasy like a strategy. But we also watched the machinery of accountability creak back into life just a little on the very same day. And as long as there are people still pushing back, we are not finished. Not even close. And that is why I still have hope for America and you should too. And remember, no matter how dark the days get, I will be here every single day, and together we will always find hope for America. I'll see you tomorrow.