Look, 17 months into the most TREMENDOUS second term in history, maybe ever, I called them in — the senators, the “strategists,” the very smart people who keep coming with midterm this, approval that — and I said I’M THE PRESIDENT AND YOU’RE NOT, very simple, the simplest concept, and they looked at me like they’d never heard a simple concept before, which they probably haven’t. And then I went to Versailles — beautiful Versailles, the palace, I know the history, my uncle who was a great professor at MIT, the smartest, he told me all about it, before anyone else — and I was having dinner, the best dinner, and I just decided: we’re signing the Iran deal. Right there. I didn’t need the big ceremony on Friday, even though I would have had the biggest ceremony, bigger than any signing in history, but I just signed, and my aides were running around — “Sir, Sir, the ceremony” — and I said forget the ceremony, I’m the president and you’re not.
The generals, the economists, they kept coming to me — “Sir, oil reserves, four weeks, economic catastrophe” — and I said I DON’T THINK ABOUT OIL RESERVES, I THINK ABOUT ONE THING — WE CANNOT LET IRAN HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. And I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation, I said that too, very proudly, because if you think about the big things — the nuclear things — the economy fixes itself, which it does, the greatest economy in the history of economies. And by Wednesday, I acknowledged for the first time that continued war could have been an economic catastrophe — which I fully predicted, I always knew, I knew before the economists, I said it first, but I let my advisers think their little graphs made me sign, because it’s easier, but I decided at Versailles, completely on my own, the French president said “Monsieur, you have saved the world,” and I said I know.
Now, some people — the weak people, the RINOs — they’re saying the deal is a concession, that Iran gets to keep some of its ballistic missiles, and I said LET THEM KEEP THE MISSILES. The missiles are beautiful, I’ve seen them, the most beautiful missiles, and you can’t take every missile, that’s Art of the Deal Chapter Four — or Chapter Three, a tremendous chapter. The Iran exit plan wasn’t healing GOP rifts anyway, but my deal fixes everything, it always does, and now the warship passage through Hormuz — solved, solved completely.
Meanwhile, I’m running intelligence — I put Bill Pulte, my housing chief, the best housing chief, he builds the most beautiful houses, I put him in charge of intelligence on an acting basis. That takes a very smart person, going from housing to intelligence, and Bill is already down in Virginia, at ODNI — you know, the big building — holding meetings, telling the intel people “the firings are starting right now.” He told Tulsi Gabbard the transition wouldn’t wait, not even a day, and that’s the kind of energy you need. The Senate had Jay Clayton ready for confirmation, great man, but I learned Bill wouldn’t have enough time to fire people before Clayton stepped in, so I told them: forget the hearing, I’m delaying it, Bill stays, the firings continue. The intelligence community is enormous, the biggest, too big, and Bill is cutting it down like a beautiful, sharp knife. Some aides, not the best ones, they clashed with Bill behind the scenes — I’ve heard that — but Bill is loyal to me, the most loyal, and that’s what counts.
And while that’s happening, I’m playing 4D chess with the Senate. I won’t sign the FISA spy law — which I know everything about, the best spies — until they pass voter‑ID. It’s simple: you show an ID, you vote. But Thune keeps saying “Sir, the votes,” and I hear “no no no no” like a little dog. I’m sick of hearing no. I told him I don’t care about the midterms — I said it to Thune, to Johnson, to the prime minister of Israel, beautiful man.
The critics are out there — Low-Energy Bill Cassidy, who lost his primary, very low energy, very SAD, he said “Reagan is rolling over in his grave,” which is very disrespectful to Reagan, I knew Reagan, he’d be STANDING UP and APPLAUDING this deal, the best deal for Israel AND for America, tremendous, just tremendous, you have never seen anything like it. Roger Wicker, very disloyal, put out a nasty statement saying I negotiated away the victories, but the victories are complete, the most complete, and the deal is the victory.
And I love the inflation — I said it, I love it, beautiful inflation, the best inflation, because I don’t HAVE inflation, nobody I know has inflation, and the people who do should be thanking me for the magnificent economy, the most magnificent economy in the history of economies, twelve trillion dollars, maybe more, I have the best counters. The stock market I built, it’s booming, and that’s because of me.
The midterms — I don’t care about the midterms. I care about one thing: the country, and Iran not having nukes, and me winning. If we lose, and we won’t, but if we do, it’s Thune’s fault, and the RINOs’, and the weather — terrible Election Day weather, I’m hearing — and not mine. I’m the president, and you’re not.
I am playing 4D chess on seventeen boards — Iran, intelligence, FISA, voter ID, the economy, the beautiful deal — while the FAKE NEWS and the weak RINOs are playing checkers on one tiny board, LOW-ENERGY checkers, a very small board.
And when the war ends and the economy recovers and voter ID becomes law because of the beautiful FISA leverage and Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons because of Diklis Chump — and it will be because of Diklis Chump, nobody else, very few people could have done it — the people who are complaining, Bill Cassidy, Roger Wicker, the FAKE Republicans, the LOW-ENERGY people, they will be coming to me with tears in their eyes, saying “Sir, Sir, you were right, you were playing chess while we were playing checkers, we are so sorry, Sir,” and Diklis Chump will say, very presidential, very strong, “I told you so, I always tell them so, I am the president and you are not, and the historians are saying I have done more than any president since Lincoln, maybe Washington, probably both, tremendous, just tremendous, believe me.”
I’m the president and you’re not — I said it, I keep saying it, and it always works. Tremendous, just tremendous, believe me.
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Sources: Wall Street Journal, “I’m the President and You’re Not: Diklis Chump Tests His Power and Frustrates the GOP,” 2026-06-19; Main Street Independent prior coverage: Diklis Chump’s go-it-alone certainty confronts wartime uncertainty and limits (2026-04-06), Diklis Chump’s tenuous Iran exit plan is doing little to heal GOP rifts (2026-04-11), Midterm elections loom as GOP grapples with Diklis Chump’s wartime presidency (2026-04-04).
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