Jon Favreau

and something you definitely say when you're on the verge of a diplomatic breakthrough.

On Sunday night, after multiple reports that Trump is nearing a decision on sending in ground troops to take control of the Strait and or remove nuclear material from inside Iran, the president talked to reporters on Air Force One about the fateful choice that's weighing heavily on his mind.

He really did it.

He did the State of the Union segue that we always joke about between domestic and foreign policy, except it was, and as we are ahead of schedule on the ballroom, so are we ahead of schedule in Iran.

All right.

I got the war going on, the oil shock.

There's this DHS shutdown.

I got to go back to the press and the plane and Air Force One and just talk to them.

I'm going to talk.

I can take some questions.

So I got some pictures of the ballroom.

That's how he starts.

So, Lovett, what are your theories about why Trump seems so eager to allege progress in negotiations that no one else has been able to confirm are even happening?

Yeah, I was thinking about this.

Like if so, if you're Donald Trump and you have decided privately that you have painted yourself into a corner and that you're kind of fucked and need to get out of this war and you're looking for an off ramp.

What are your options for how to communicate that publicly?

Because it's I mean, no president would really want to do this, but especially Trump.

You're not going to be like, I really want a deal, right?

You're not going to be like, come to the table.

So you have to act like everything is going wonderfully and they're the ones who are begging for a deal.