Trump looked a little the worse for wear after his late night birthday fight on the White House lawn – and the flight to France for the G7 can’t have helped. Here’s everything you need to knowTrump looked pretty wobbly on arrival in France(Image: Jeanne Accorsini/SIPA/Shutterstock)Donald Trump looked pretty rough when he arrived at the G7 in France today. And not unreasonably – he’d been up until wildly late last night at his UFC White House birthday party – which didn’t wrap up until way after 1am.Fun fact about that event – exactly two items on site were free. Water, served lukewarm in tiny cups from a tap, and Monster energy drinks, served ice cold in 500ml cans, each of which contains more caffeine than two cups of coffee. And at the rate they were shifting them, I’d be amazed if anyone in the DC area got any sleep at all last night.But while the fighting in DC went on late into the night, Trump announced that a deal had been struck to end the fighting in Iran – but the administration is still being real sketchy on the details of that one.Meanwhile in TrumpworldAmerican Flag Blue… or swamp green?Trump team still being sketchy about Iran deal detailsJD Vance wheeled up to explain itTrump looked a bit wobbly on arrival in ParisHere’s what you need to knowAmerican Flag Blue …or swamp green?Washington DC has felt fairly swampy this week. 35 degree temperatures, high humidity, thunderstorms – and oh my the mosquitoes. None of which is surprising given it was built on a swamp. Unfortunately there’s one thing in DC that’s definitely not supposed to look like a swamp – and that’s the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. You’ll remember, Trump recently scrapped a years long project to properly renovate the pool, instead getting some of his swimming pool repair guys in to paint it his chosen colour of “American Flag Blue” at a cost of $14 million.Almost as soon as it was topped back up with water it was attacked by algae, which turned it a lovely shade of swamp green. After seeing a few posts about this online, I went down yesterday to see it for myself – and I can confirm the shade of the water runs from a sort of browny green to kind of luminous when the sun shines just the right way. It was almost inevitable that this would turn out to be a fiasco – it is, after all, a construction project personally overseen by Donald Trump. He bragged to the entire world about how he was cutting corners and getting it done quickly and on the cheap. Which is quite concerning given the sheer number of building projects Trump has scheduled for the DC area – including the Arch De Trump and the Ballroom.Content cannot be displayed without consentDetails on Trump’s Iran deal are still somewhat …sketchyTrump announced on Sunday that a memorandum of understanding had been agreed with Iran, and as a result the American blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would be lifted.Good news, no doubt, but a lot of people are now asking flavour of ending this war is coming to. Trump insists he’s got what he wanted out of Iran – an agreement not to pursue a nuclear programme and get rid of its material stockpiles. (I mean, that wasn’t his original ask. That was regime change, and he definitely hasn’t got that.) But you only really know which side has lost here when you get the detail of what Iran gets in return.And it appears like sticking to the deal will net Iran some $300 billion in funds it can access to rebuild its country. Which given Trump repeatedly insisted money wouldn’t be part of the deal, makes it look awfully like a loss for America.Especially when the ICPOA, the Obama-era non-nuclear deal with Iran that Trump ripped up during his first term, only netted the regime about $100 billion in unfrozen assets and a $1.7 million cash to settle a dispute over a deal that collapsed in the 70s.JD Vance was wheeled out to try to explain itWith Trump in the air en route to France for the G7, it fell to JD Vance to explain, maybe even justify the new Iran deal to the American people on the airwaves. And he appeared to confirm the $300 billion figure. But he argued they’d only have access to that cash if they kept up their end of the deal. Perhaps I missed a chapter when I read The Art of the Deal, but isn’t that just …how deals work? It wouldn’t be much of a deal if they just got $300 billion for doing…nothing.Content cannot be displayed without consentAmericans react Trump’s UFC fight at the White HouseTrump looked a bit wobbly on arrival in ParisMeeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Trump did a very weird handshake thing, then babbled about the UFC fight the night before. He later declared the UFC event to be “maybe more important than the World Cup? To some people it might be”Content cannot be displayed without consentHe sat next to Keir Starmer for the first time since their big falling outThey’ve spoken to each other on the phone, but this is the first time Starmer and Trump have seen each other in person since their falling out over the Iran war – and since Trump branded Starmer “No Winston Churchill”. They were seated next to each other at a dinner of leaders at the conference in Evian. Hopefully Starmer will have worked on some UFC chat for between courses.It’s the first time they’ve met since they fell out(Image: Jeanne Accorsini/SIPA/Shutterstock)Trump says nobody gets to see the deal before its signedThe Memorandum of Understanding – the basic framework of a deal) is set to be signed in Geneva on Monday.But anyone hoping to get a glimpse of the text before then might be disappointed – Trump said he’d only be releasing the text after the deal is signed.Content cannot be displayed without consentThat might not cut it with Republicans in congressRepublicans on Capitol Hill said Monday they need more information about the agreement between the United States and Iran announced by President Donald Trump, and some are expressing skepticism as they ask the White House for details. The agreement announced Sunday to end the war in Iran, set for a ceremonial signing Friday in Geneva, is centered around reopening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting the United States’ naval blockade in the region, along with financial incentives for Iran if it meets certain benchmarks. But Senate Republicans and Democrats who returned to Washington on Monday said there were still many unanswered questions about the deal and they need thorough briefings before it is finalized. “I just don’t know enough about it,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters in the Capitol. “Even the people who follow this stuff closely up here don’t know that much about it.”Congressional leaders and intelligence committees generally receive higher-level intelligence briefings before rank-and-file members, and they are notified of major developments before they are announced. But Thune said he had not been personally briefed on the deal. “I think that my understanding of what it entails — and, again, not having seen anything — it would require, I think the issues are going to be compliance, and how are you going to enforce that,” Thune said. Thune’s concerns were echoed by several other GOP senators. “If it’s a secret deal then how can I take it seriously?” asked Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina.
