Trump’s Iran agreement may be a dud, but he’s getting what he wants

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/18/politics/trump-iran-deal

Donald Trump insisted last month that he didn’t think about Americans’ finances when negotiating with Iran.

“I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that could have happened,” Trump said Wednesday, in seeking to explain what critics see as a deeply flawed agreement to end the war.

Trump’s comment, in France, was a revealing moment. It shows how, under political pressure, he often grasps for short-term advantage over the long-term strategic grind. And it underscores his reverence for the wisdom of the markets, which he said were “more brilliant” than any of his advisers “other than me, of course.”