President Donald Trump speaks to reporters outside the White House on June 24, 2025, in Washington, less than 12 hours after announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/The Conversation
President Donald Trump dropped a publicly-televised F-bomb over the short-lived cease-fire deal between Israel and Iran. Last night, Iran fired back at Israel, dismissing what Trump proudly announced earlier in the day.
Trump’s frustration was evident with his use of the expletive as he spoke to reporters on his way to the Netherlands for the NATO summit. An animated Trump said, “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f–k they’re doing!” He angrily stated that both countries had violated the peace deal.
Rachel Scott of ABC News asked the president, “Is Iran still committed to peace?” Trump replied, “Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I have never seen before. The biggest load we’ve seen. I am not happy with Israel… I am not happy with Iran either.
The collapse of the ceasefire and advancement of aggression and hostilities between the two warring nations now go far beyond what President Trump termed a “12-day war.” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, “We’ll solve a new set of problems.”
While in the Netherlands, Trump is expected to ask NATO members for spending commitments, pushing the group’s European members to pay more into the organization that he once claimed was “broke.”
The focus of NATO is to ensure the freedom and security of its members through political and military means. NATO targets include weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and cyberattacks.
The meeting in The Hague with 32 world leaders will be the president’s first meeting with that number of U.S. allies since his return to the White House in January.
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