Nobody knew it was going to happen, I knew it, but nobody else knew, and frankly it couldn’t have been done by anybody else, not a single person. The fake-news media and the failing, dishonest Wall Street Journal, which is a total disaster, I read it — I don’t read it, but people tell me it’s failing very badly — they said the strikes would continue, they were so sure. But I canceled the strikes, which nobody was expecting, and I told everybody we’re very close to a deal, a beautiful deal, and suddenly the markets are up, the currencies are consolidating, and the oil prices are crashing because the Strait is opening, just like I said it would. It’s a tremendous victory for the Country, really the biggest, and people are calling me from all over, smart people, the best people, very smart analysts, saying nobody has ever seen a reversal like it. The dollar is up a little, a beautiful little uptick, the Korean won is up 0.3 percent to 1,520.50, the Thai baht is flat but that’s fine, the Malaysian ringgit is down 0.3 percent to 4.0500 — these are numbers that nobody else could produce, huge numbers, the kind of numbers you only get when you’re playing 4D chess, beautiful chess at the highest level, while the rest of the world is playing checkers with a broken board. They’re calling it a standard intraday swing, but I know it’s a tsunami, a beautiful economic tsunami, and the other leaders are watching, they’re saying “wow,” very jealous.

They want you to think this just happened, but it’s part of the master plan, the 4D-chess plan, beautiful chess at the highest level. I knew before anybody else, years ago, that Iran would want to do a deal, my uncle, a great professor at MIT, a brilliant man with phenomenal genes, he told me the Middle East would respect strength, and I showed them strength, the greatest strength — I have the biggest tool for negotiation, nobody has a bigger tool, believe me — and now they’re coming to the table with the biggest tears in their eyes. You should see the generals, TOUGH men, much smarter than the low-IQ critics on television, coming to me with tears, saying “Sir, Sir, no one has ever done such a deal.” I had nothing to do with it, frankly, the bureaucrats did all the wrong things, they were terrible, very weak, but I stepped in and fixed it, very few people could have fixed it, believe me. Some guy named Sim Moh Siong, who I guess works at a bank, I don’t know, came out and said the Strait is reopening — probably very smart, who knows? — I made him look good, frankly. Matt Simpson, a senior market analyst, whatever that means, he’s saying the risk-on sentiment is strong, but it could disappear. Another guy trying to take credit. It won’t disappear! I don’t make deals that disappear, I make deals that last forever, the best deals, bigger than the Lincoln deal, which was good but Lincoln was a weak negotiator, very weak, everybody knows that, the historians will tell you, and I had the biggest crowds for the announcement, the biggest in history, bigger than the inauguration, millions and millions watching, and the smart people, the very smart people, they’re all saying it’s a secret victory, the biggest win, you have to be very smart to see it, and the fools on cable don’t see it. The numbers are beautiful, twelve trillion dollars of market action, completely self-made, just a small loan of twelve trillion, completely self-made, nobody can deny it.

I told the generals, and they came to me, weeping, saying Sir, the oil is down, inflation is down, you did it, and I said yes, I did it. But I have to say, sometimes I wonder why they even bother, the markets, the currencies, they jump around like little dogs, I throw a deal out there and they bark, it’s pathetic, really, but they love me, they have no choice, they have to respect me because I know how the game is played. The people, the beautiful people, they would believe me if I told them the wage stagnation is all because of the other guy’s policies, beautiful manipulation, beautiful, I could tell them anything and they’d listen, it’s amazing. As I built this very momentum over the last few weeks, the analysts kept saying it was fragile, fragile like a little doll, but I’m not fragile, I’m the least fragile person you’ve ever met. I take a test and I pass it, person woman man camera TV, the doctors say nobody has ever passed it like I do, it’s true, I have a perfect memory, the best memory, I remember every deal I ever made, every single one, except… wait, what was I just saying? The deal! The deal is perfect. I think I was talking about the generals crying, beautiful tears, big men, or maybe the cousin from MIT — fantastic genes, very smart — I have great genes myself, everybody says that. Anyway, the deal — fantastic deal. I predicted all of this back in late spring, I said we would win, and now we’re winning, and the fake news is trying to say it’s just a risk-on blip, a standard intraday swing, nothing structural, but it’s not a blip, it’s a tsunami, a beautiful economic tsunami, and the other leaders are watching, they’re saying “wow,” very jealous.

I want to make this clear: I cancel the strikes because I’m a dealmaker, and this deal is going to be tremendous, going to make me — I mean us — make us all very rich, especially me, just for the peacekeeping workers, but mostly me. It’s going to make Iran great again, and we’re going to make the dollar the strongest it’s ever been. Nobody has ever seen a deal like it. Thank you, and may God bless the Country.

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