REMINDER: Saudi Arabia does not want the war in Iran to end before there is regime change. The Saudis are paying a top U.S. negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions annually. The negotiations just ended without a deal, exactly what the Saudis wanted.

Glad he's laser focused on the peace negotiations.

Marathon talks? Compared to what? It took years for Obama to deliver a detailed Iran deal. The Trump admin are packing it in after 20 hours. (H/T @bgrueskin.bsky.social)

"Why can't actual war be as easy as hosting a cage match on your front lawn???"

"How many divisions does the Pope have?" www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

I know it's fun to mock JD for this, but the reality was that the "ceasefire" (aka the climbdown from Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization) was based on a phony deal all along, and there was never going to be any way of reconciling the two sides' stated positions, which were 180 opposite.

Pretty mixed messages to suspend sanctions on Iranian oil, and then threaten to blockade it entirely

Repost. My response is the same. They're going to have to put limits on numbers of executive orders and pardons too.

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👀 Oh. My. Gawd. Now we know why Melania gave that Epstein presser on Thursday. An interview with Amanda Ungaro is about to be released by El Pais on Sunday morning (and it’s after midnight right now in Spain). And on Monday, she will be on CNN.

Reagan’s OMB Director:

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

A ground invasion is also a terrible solution to our problems. But Trump's manhood is now threatened.

I worry that Trump is going to go for a ground invasion. Any military solution to the problem of the strait is going to be a low-level forever war and therefore ineffective at bringing back commercial shipping at an acceptable cost.

I thought Trump said a few days ago that Iran was begging him for a deal?

So now we go back to bombing them until they agree to the deal Obama had that Trump tore up… and open up the strait that was open before we attacked them? Continuing a war we “already won”? Do we have that right?

It is an insane dereliction of duty for any president or Secretary of State-even Trump and Marco Rubio-that they’re at a UFC fight instead of monitoring inept liar JD Vance, untrained real estate developer Steve Witkoff and serial grifter Jared Kushner as they tried-and failed-to negotiate with Iran

Surprised JD Vance wasn't able to close a deal with the Iranians. His only skill is saying whatever people want to hear.

And obtw the president

At least we haven’t murdered the negotiating team this time… Yet. #Progress

Heads we win; tails you’re fired. Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

Vance: “They have chosen not to accept our terms… We leave here with a very simple proposal… our final and best offer.” Doesn’t really sound like negotiation.

Best and final offer on Day 1?

sending the guy who very publicly tried to distance himself from the war without doing anything to try to stop it on a futile mission to negotiate peace while you go to a UFC fight… pretty good bit unfortunately

You can see how until this precise moment Vance might have believed he had the fascist Mandate of Heaven

The gait of a man who is realizing he will never rise above his insane boss’s most moronic and disastrous mistake, and maybe he should not have thrown in with these people at all

Obviously it will be awful if the war’s back on, but at least we got this incredible photo of JD Vance failing miserably

"As Mr. Vance was detailing the impasse in negotiations, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were at a sports arena in Miami for UFC 327, watching a video montage of past fights." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

The Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that Trump ripped up (and whose terms he would love right now!) took at least 20 months of negotiation. Months. Not hours.

What is with the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal calling less than a day of discussion “marathon talks?“

Plans are woke and DEI

So.... 1. War without any planning at all. 2. Cease-fire without any planning at all. 3. Peace talks without any planning at all. 4. ???

jd is toast. not only does he come out as a totally failed incompetent negotiator when a huge amount was on the line, but trump can now bind him to the war in ways he was trying to avoid.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty)

Trump & his clown cabinet couldn't negotiate their way out of a paper bag...

Who could have predicted that Alex Jones would denounce this war before Mitch McConnell did.

How the fuck is the president and Secretary of State at a UFC fight in Miami while war negotiations affecting the world economy are falling apart. And I know that MFer isn’t going to try to play golf tomorrow too.

Kushner looks like even he can’t believe he’s getting away with being a lead negotiator when he’s the son in law of the president and their family has billions of dollars worth of deals in the region

One thing that really feels like it’s undermining negotiations is the administration’s conviction that we won this war, and are negotiating for Iran’s surrender

Iran War negotiations failed tonight, and the Secretary of State and President are at a UFC fight. Deeply unserious people in the most serious jobs on the planet.

Mixing a technology that has driven people to psychosis and even suicide, with a business that sells people what appears to be direct access to the divine…what could go wrong?

Every day is another well-earned indignity for JD Vance. Unfortunately, far too many of those indignities have negative consequences for the rest of us.

I also described the partisan imbalance in superPAC spending, and discussed research suggesting some people might not vote for women for misogynistic reasons. A couple of very loud group members did not like any of those points, and I didn’t get asked back this year. Funny coincidence.

TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, CBS, and CNN all have Trump-aligned owners. Here’s why US media has a liberal bias problem.

I *really* want to see the instructions, probably written in sharpie or crayons.

👋 I've conducted successful international negotiations on behalf of the US government. Happy to help out.

the fuck is the literal Secretary of State and supposed national security advisor doing at a moment like this

that was some historically stupid shit even for America. We are not sending our best. And we sent 5, they sent 60 so only Iran was serious. We were just stupid jerks again.

Well at least it’s a slow day in foreign policy