Karoline Leavitt Sets Unhinged Timeline for Trump to Decide on Iran
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The world is on edge waiting for Donald Trump to decide if he will order the U.S. military to attack Iran. And according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, everyone will have to wait a little longer—two weeks, to be exact.
Leavitt revealed Trump’s decision-making timeline during a press briefing at the White House Thursday.
“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” Leavitt said , reading out a statement from Trump.
A reporter then pointed out that Trump often sets two-week deadlines only to move them to suit his needs, as he has done while tepidly trying to convince Russia to stop its war in Ukraine.
“How can we be sure that he’s going to stick to this one on making the decision on Iran?” asked AFP’s Danny Kemp, referring to a similar two-week deadline Trump has repeatedly given Russia to stop bombing Ukraine (with no tangible results).
Leavitt stammered as she claimed that Iran negotiations and Russia-Ukraine negotiations were completely different before pivoting to a tried-and-true fallback: blaming Joe Biden.
a reporter points out to Leavitt that Trump says something will happen in "two weeks" all the time and then it doesn't happen 🙃 pic.twitter.com/IEWCZ4mXtG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 19, 2025
Trump has previously claimed that Iranian officials want to come to Washington and negotiate an end to Israel’s war, which has so far killed at least 639 people in Iran, according to human rights groups.
Tehran, for its part, has said that “no Iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the White House.”
“The only thing more despicable than [Trump’s] lies is his cowardly threat to ‘take out’ Iran’s Supreme Leader,” the Iranian mission to the U.N. wrote on X Wednesday.
Either way, making a people under attack wait two weeks to see if they will face further bombardment is a bonkers decision. It also marks a significant change in tone for Trump, who has so far indicated he is open to attacking Iran and has repeatedly demanded “unconditional surrender” from the Middle Eastern nation. But maybe he’s content to sit back and let Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do all the dirty work .
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In two weeks (assuming he doesnt give it "two weeks" more after that) will bring us to about a month since Israel decided that Iran was imminently ready to build a nuclear weapon. I think they said two weeks.
Trump doesnt know what he is doing, and Americans have been conditioned to disregard that harsh truth.
do you think anything might have happened in the interim to delay Iran's ability to build a nuke?
Trump doesnt know what he is doing. If it all turns out well it will be pure luck.
Just to be clear, you are attacking him for not rushing into a decision to bomb another country and instead letting events play out?
He doesnt know what he is doing. If it works out it will be by the grace of God.
No, he's attacking him for being an ignorant buffoon.
If Biden said he would decide on this in "two weeks" you would be calling him senile.
Difference is it probably wouldn't be Biden making the decision.
“If Biden said he would decide on this in "two weeks" you would be calling him senile.”
two weeks, two months, two years, two days, it wouldn’t matter. He is senile.
He’s always promising shit in two weeks that never happens.