For a man who has trouble staying awake on camera these days, Donald Trump is really pushing the envelope. After staying up into the wee hours celebrating his birthday last Sunday at the UFC spectacle on the White House lawn, our 80-year-old president hopped on a plane to France for his sixth meeting of the G7.He arrived bearing a “memorandum of understanding” between the U.S. and Iran’s governing regime that supposedly opens the Strait of Hormuz and extends the current ceasefire for another 60 days while the parties hammer out a hypothetical long-term agreement to end hostilities.
According to a draft of the agreement read aloud to White House reporters on Wednesday, the agreement would also somehow bring an end to Israel’s war in Lebanon, create a reconstruction fund of $300 billion for Iran, lift all sanctions on Iranian oil and push discussion of its nuclear program into future negotiations. Some Republican senators have already expressed misgivings, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he won’t be bound by this agreement, so it’s very hard to tell what this actually means.
