Jon Lovett

Where were they, by the way?

That was the least presidential backdrop I've ever seen.

This is a deal to temporarily deal with the fallout from the stupid war we started in hopes of maybe getting a full nuclear deal to accomplish our goals.

I mean, you laid it out.

I mean, Trump described his goal as he did a video statement right after they started the war.

He said, we're going to destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry to the ground.

We're going to annihilate their Navy.

We're going to ensure that the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world, then attack our forces.

And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.

I guess we like- It's the Navy.

The Navy thing.

Yeah, we took out your Navy, but they still had the Strait of Hormuz closed, so that doesn't seem good.

So look, this is hard to message because this was the best deal available to Trump and for the world because it ended the war.

And we were seeing economies in Asia collapsing.

We could still see a global famine because of what was happening.

But Trump accomplished none of his goals.

And I think we have to message that.

And Iran now knows it can shut down the global economy at any time.

by closing the Strait of Hormuz.

And they could get hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief.