And so it goes ...

President Donald Trump departs Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,
 Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Bethesda, Md. Brenda Bazán/Associated Press

The picture says it all. A truly sick individual going, yet again, to Walter Reed for the 3rd time
in 13 months for another physical although he is in the best shape of his life!
As for yours truly, once a year's enough. :)

But this isn's about the orange menace. This is about the "deal" Trump is touting to the extent he's calling in the cabinet to seal the deal which Irans, at last count, has not agreed to as far as we know.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will meet with his Cabinet on Wednesday at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the war with Iran, just days after insisting that his administration and Tehran had "largely negotiated" a settlement but with the negotiations still in a state of flux.

Prospects fade for imminent end to Iran war as attacks restart

As he prepares to huddle with his top aides, Trump is projecting confidence that he's closing in on a deal that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and provide him a credible argument that Iran's nuclear capability has been diminished enough to declare victory, winding down a conflict that's been politically unpopular for Republicans.

But as things stand, Trump also risks finding closure to his war of choice comes with an unsatisfactory ending.

The emerging deal puts off many critical issues to be resolved later and has already exposed the president to fierce criticism — even from some of his own supporters — that Iran's hardline leaders will emerge from the conflict battered but emboldened. It all comes to a head just as the midterm elections to determine control of Congress come into focus and as Republicans worry that rising costs and fuel prices are darkening the American electorate's mood. 

Stepping on one's dick ...

'Stunned silence' as Trump ties Abraham Accords to Iran deal

Trump on Monday said any agreement to end the Iran war should include a requirement for several additional countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Pakistan, to join the Abraham Accords, the U.S.-brokered agreements from Trump's first term aimed at normalizing diplomatic and economic relations with Israel.

Trump's optimism that the other Middle Eastern and majority Muslim countries could soon sign on to the accords might be overly ambitious.

Just a tad. Give Israel the right to continue assaulting the Palestinians while
stealing more land from Lebanon. That works, right?

And so it goes. K, Vonnegut