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You want to do your Trump impersonation?

Yes.

And so and then let's read the next truth from Trump Social and then we'll bring Jeremy in to get his reaction to it.

He posted, Iran doesn't want the Strait of Hormuz closed.

They want it open so they can make $500 million a day, which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed.

They only say they want it closed because I have it totally blockaded, parentheses closed.

So they merely want to, quote, save face.

People approached me four days ago saying, sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait immediately.

But if we do that, there can never be a deal with Iran unless we blow up the rest of their country, their leaders included, exclamation point, President Donald J. Trump.

All right, so let's bring in Jeremy Scahill to unpack what on earth President Donald J. Trump is talking about here.

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Okay, so Jeremy, what is going on here?

Let's start with kind of from the kind of MAGA perspective, from the Trump perspective.

How are they explaining this series of posts and this kind of about face?

And so that's, you know, that's significant news right there.

And as you reported yesterday, too, that the Iranians were ready to come to the table, the

Meetings would happen tomorrow.

The Pakistanis told them, the Pakistanis and the mediators, that Trump was going to make X gesture and the gesture was going to be on lifting the blockade and extending the ceasefire.