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.

Trump just said the Oval Office is disgraceful. REPORTER: "Mr. President, yesterday John Ossoff said you'd rather travel with your aide, Natalie Harp, and build the ballroom than do your job as President. What is your response? TRUMP: "John Ossoff? You mean Pee Wee Herman? Pee Wee Herman-lookalike. No, I would much rather do other things. It's a, we're building a great facility here. We're fixing a White House that hasn't been taken care of. You can look at this. This room was a disgraceful situation in the Oval Office. It was let go. The whole building, the White House, was let go."

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