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Skipped His Son's Wedding for 'a Thing Called Iran.' Same Weekend: MOU 'Largely Negotiated.'

TRUMP · MAY 22–24, 2026 · T1

TRUMP
"I have a thing called Iran and other things."
"That's one I can't win on. If I do attend, I get killed. If I don't attend, I get killed by the fake news." — Oval Office
Human-interest wedding story ate the operational one. He said he couldn't leave Washington because of Iran during the exact weekend he posted that peace with Iran was largely done. The fake-news trap quote ran as personality. It was also an admission that the press picks the frame — wedding or war — and he knows it.