Jen Psaki

Normally, you would talk about, say, the war you launched four weeks ago and the impacts of it and what every cabinet member and agency should be doing about it to bring it to an end, what the strategy is.

Well, that wasn't what he was focused on.

He was laser focused on, of course, another very important issue facing the American people, the quality of our pens.

Okay, I just want to note that we literally had to edit that together because he spoke about the pens for so long.

It was more than four minutes.

That would have taken up way too much time.

But I do love the fact that he discloses there at the end that none of that was staged, as if any of us thought the extended riff on pens was part of his strategically written prepared remarks.

I certainly don't think it was.

And I promise you, he went on, as I said, about the pens a whole lot longer than that.

And when Trump finally did move on, he showed a lot less urgency and a lot less passion about the war he started than he did about America's calligraphy crisis, I guess you could call it.

In fact, he said that contrary to all the reporting we're seeing, Iran is actually begging him to make a deal.

I don't care.

He's the opposite of desperate, everyone.

You heard it there.

He doesn't even care if the US makes a deal with Iran somehow.

And remember, Trump set a deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by tomorrow, threatening to attack their civilian infrastructure if they don't.

Well, late today, Trump announced that he was extending that deadline by 10 days, which doesn't feel like something he should have to do if Iran really is so desperate to make a deal.

That doesn't make a lot of sense.

Trump wants the public to think that he's got this all in the bag, that we've already won.

He says that all the time, that he's just tying up some loose ends, finalizing a few words in the final document.