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Donald Jr’s wedding in the Bahamas is skipped, he gives up the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster and remains barricaded in the fort of the White House asking his closest collaborators to cancel all the commitments made for the long Memorial Day weekend. For Donald Trump it is certainly the longest weekend, the hour of the most difficult decision: make the agreement with Iran or attack, ‘fifty-fifty’ of possibilities, he himself explains, surrounded by his faithful as he tries to extricate himself from the tangle of crisis. The weekend that could mark his presidency. The commander-in-chief’s doubts about how to get out of the corner he has put himself in with Tehran are many, and they weigh like a boulder. A resumption of attacks would risk having a very high political price in an election year. But even a bad agreement would remain as an indelible stain for Trump, intent at all costs to avoid an agreement with Iran that is similar or worse to the one Barak Obama reached in 2015. Difficult. So it’s a Saturday made up of briefings, calls, many phone calls and even several interviews, the ones the tycoon can’t give up. The chances are precisely ‘fifty-fifty’ between agreement and bombings, he explains to Axios on the phone in the Oval Office or in the Situation Room where he gathers his entire national security team.
To CBS News: “We are getting very close to an agreement”
Shortly after with CBS News he appears more optimistic: “We are getting very close to an agreement.” Conflicting messages, often ambiguous, as almost always, which do not reveal what is really going on in the president’s head. With him, among others, are the envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and then also arrives Vice President JD Vance, the most skeptical of the war within the administration. Certainly more than the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who was absent because he was on a mission in India. Busy studying Tehran’s latest proposal sent by Pakistani mediators, the president maintains contacts with his Gulf allies and with Israel, with whom the line is direct and continuous. This doesn’t stop Trump from finding time for a long series of posts on the Truth social network. In one he publishes an image of Iran marked with the colors of the American flag. In another he revived his sights on Greenland. In yet another he thanked the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for saying that «Trump is the leader the world has been waiting for for centuries. Not only does he talk about strength, he projects it.”
One of the darkest weeks of his second mandate: the polls show him in sharp decline
But what has just ended for the president is one of the darkest weeks of his second term. Polls indicate it is in sharp decline: only 29% of Americans promote it on the economy according to a survey by Fox News, their favorite network. The victories of its candidates in the primaries held in many US states in recent days have not convinced the Republican Party. And his deal with the US Internal Revenue Service has raised a fuss even among conservatives. The Republican-majority Senate left Washington at odds with the president without voting on the immigration measure pushed by the White House. A rupture linked to Trump’s agreement with the tax authorities: the president withdrew the 10 billion dollar lawsuit and, in the role of vigilante, agreed to the creation of a fund to compensate allies who were victims of Joe Biden’s “corrupt” Justice Department. A move that also irritated Republicans, pushing them for the first time in Trump’s second term to turn their backs on him. The rift risks having serious consequences for the president’s agenda, as well as making the race for the conservatives in the mid-term elections even more difficult, where they will have to deal with the anger of the Americans for the war in Iran that the president is having many difficulties in closing.