Trump’s Bizarre Statements in Defending the MoU With Iran

President Donald Trump at the G-7 meeting and afterward has provided the world with his thoughts on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran. It was quite a performance. He praised Qatar, the Arab state that provides financial support to Hamas and refuge for the terror group’s senior leaders. Trump, addressing the Qataris, proclaimed that “I will always be your friend.” He denounced Israel, claiming that Israel’s strikes against the jihad group nearly broke the U.S.’s negotiations with Iran. “Why did Bibi have to do a f—ing attack? I was so pissed off. I let him know. He has no f—ing judgement,” Trump raged.

More on his praise of the Iranian negotiators whom Trump described as “very nice people” and his warning to Israel to stop hitting Hezbollah because “too many people are dying” can be found here: “Trump says he sent Israel draft of MoU with Iran, expects signing to happen soon,” Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2026:

“US President Donald Trump said that reports of a $300 billion fund slated for Iran are false in comments to the press on the sidelines of the G7 summit on Wednesday.

…Trump said that reports of a $300 billion fund slated for Iran are false in comments to the press on the sidelines of the G7 summit.

“We’re not putting up 10 cents. People can decide to do that, but that is up to them,” he said.

“We are not investing in it, and we do not have a fund,” he said, “That’s a false story that got picked up incorrectly.”

Trump added that he was not asking Gulf States to invest in Iran as well….

This is deceptive. He is not asking the Gulf Arab states to directly provide Iran with money, but he will help find private parties in those states to invest up to $300 billion in Iran.

Trump said that the MoU is “great for a lot of reasons, but number one, by far… is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.”…

He cals the MoU “great for a lot of reasons.” Don’t let him forget that remark.

Trump also discussed regime change, claiming that he “never cared” about it….

Trump now denies that regime change in Iran ever mattered to him, declaring that he “never cared about it.” Has he forgotten his promise on Truth Social to the anti-regime protesters in January that — all caps — “HELP IS ON ITS WAY”? Does he have any idea the effect of his new claim that he “never cared about regime change” will have on Iranians desperate for the regime to be overthrown, and wanting some signs of support, and now Trump, for no good reason, has left them in total despair? He could have said something else: “I was hoping for regime change after the nationwide protests in January, but then the government killed 40,000 of its own people. I hoped again after the battering Iran received in February from us and from the Israelis. But a reign of terror for now keeps the fanatics in control. Now I know it will take longer, but I haven’t given up hope, and I haven’t forgotten what the people of Iran want. And eventually they will get it.”

“I guess you have regime change because… the first group, they’re all dead, the second group, they’re dead, and part of the third group is gone,” he added.

The killing by Israel and the U.S. of various members of the Islamic Republic’s civilian leadership and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has not changed any policies in Tehran. That is not “regime change,” as Trump tries half-jokingly to insist. If anything, Iran analysts uniformly claim that the regime has not changed, but only hardened.

Trump says the ones now in power in Tehran are “very rational people.” No, they are Muslim fanatics, they are —pace Trump — “radicalized,” and they are not “looking to help their country,” but to remain in power no matter what. These people who were “very nice to deal with” are willing to sacrifice the welfare of the entire civilian population of Iran in order to arm the country to the teeth. The regime’s priorities are clear: it is willing to have its population sink ever further into poverty while spending fantastic sums on weapons. Iran has spent on its nuclear program alone close to $100 billion. And tens of billions of dollars have been spent spent on its ballistic missile program, its drones, and other armaments. As for calling the Iranians “very nice to deal with” — such self-deception leaves one gasping.

“I’ve watched regime changes for years – they never work,” he stated.

Regime change “never works”? Doesn’t he think that the regime change in Washington, from Biden’s administration to that of Trump, has “worked”? What about “regime change” in South Africa, from Willem de Klerk to Nelson Mandela — did that not work? The “regime change” in Germany from Hitler to Konrad Adenauer surely “worked,” as did that change from Vichy France to a liberated France under the Third Republic. Did regime change in Italy, from the Fascist rule of Mussolini, to a brief Monarchist rule, and then to the true democracy ushered in with the election of Alcide De Gasperi, not work? What about the change of regime in Poland, when Lech Walesa led a popular revolt that undid Communist rule? Or all the “regime changes” in the former Communist states of central and eastern Europe? Of course Trump knows almost none of this. He is not interested in history, and knows very little of it, even of the history of the last century. He is the leader of the Know-Nothings.

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