TRUMP SAYS THE OVAL OFFICE SHOULD BE TREATED WITH 'DECORUM, RESPECT, AND DIGNITY, NOT DEFILED BY THIRD RATE CLOWNS', ARGUING THAT VIRTUALLY EVERY STORY ABOUT HIM IS 'NEGATIVE, WRONG AND, IN MANY CASES, DANGEROUS', AND CITING HIS 2024 ELECTION WINS TO ASK 'WITH SUCH A CROOKED AND CORRUPT PRESS, HOW DID I WIN IN SUCH A LANDSLIDE?' - TRUTH SOCIAL

While speaking in the Oval Office to reporters today, U.S. President Donald J. Trump told reporters that he currently has no interest in talking to Iran, harped on the damage done to their forces, and doubled down on the effectiveness of the new “Economic D-Day” sanctions packages recently announced by the U.S. Treasury. The administration has shifted from a kinetic approach to significantly upscaled economic coercive measures in recent weeks, as efforts at diplomacy repeatedly failed to rectify the primary point of contention between Iran and the U.S., the administration of the Strait of Hormuz.