Trump ‘flips’ position from negotiating to bombing Iran in matter of hours

We’ve really heard a flip in position as far as how Donald Trump has talked about these strikes. Just hours before these strikes were launched, if you remember, Trump was telling reporters how he did not want Israel to go in because it would “blow up” the nuclear talks that Iran was having with the US. Then, almost immediately after the strikes, Trump changed that to say that these strikes were, in his words, “excellent”. And then blamed Iran for those strikes, saying it was because that country did not accept the deal offered by the US to completely stop enriching uranium. He’s also warning on Truth Social that further strikes will happen that will be more brutal, saying that this is time for Iran to come back to make a deal. So what we are seeing here is Trump caught between two conflicting impulses that are really also embodied by the different sides of the Republican Party. We have those who want Trump to be the peace-making diplomatic president that he promised he would be during his inauguration speech. There is also the impulse from the war hawks for the US to be more involved in potentially bombing Iran directly, which Trump has also threatened to do. As far as which side he is on, it really appears to be whatever sounds more impressive to him at the moment. Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou Castro reports. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on X : https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #TrumpOnIran#IsraelIranConflict#MiddleEastTensions#USMilitaryMoves#NuclearDealCrisis#TrumpSupportsIsrael#IranStrikeThreat#RegionalEscalation#TrumpIranPolicy#USInTheMiddleEast #AlJazeeraEnglish