President Donald Trump urged his political critics and detractors to “just sit back and relax” as he leads negotiations with Iran to end the military conflict with the country. He also said that politicians making critical remarks about him hamper efforts to negotiate an agreement to end hostilities. He made the comments in an early-morning post on his Truth Social account, while antagonizing Democrats, or, as Trump has called them in recent days, “Dumocrats.”
“Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” Trump said a little after 1 a.m in the post on his Truth Social. “But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively ‘chirping,’ at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever.”
“Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – It always does!” Trump said.
The president’s comments came after a week in which many Democrats criticized reports of a rumored proposal to end the war with Iran. For example, persistent Trump Democratic critic, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), criticized the rumored peace deal as a “scrambling” move by the president. He called it a “terrible deal” due to Trump’s “terrible decision.”
“The President is scrambling just to get back to where we were,” said Goldman in an interview last week on CNN. “We are in a much worse situation right now than we were before the war started.”
“He’s going to give billions of dollars now, reopen Iranian oil with no guarantee that they will stop enriching,” Goldman added. “This is a terrible deal because it was a terrible decision by the President.”
Republicans also expressed skepticism and worry over what he heard last week was in the rumored peace deal proposal. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he was concerned about reports of the rumored deal. He said he prayed that what he had heard about the deal was incorrect.
“I am deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran ‘deal,’ being pushed by some voices in the administration,” Cruz said in a post on X on May 23.
I am deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran “deal,” being pushed by some voices in the administration.
President Trump’s decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of his second term. He was right to do so, and we achieved extraordinary…
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 24, 2026
“President Trump’s decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of his second term,” said Cruz. “He was right to do so, and we achieved extraordinary military results — including destroying all of their missiles & drones and sinking their entire navy.”
“If the result of all that is to be an Iranian regime — still run by Islamists who chant ‘death to America’ — now receiving billions of dollars, being able to enrich uranium & develop nuclear weapons, and having effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, then that outcome would be a disastrous mistake,” said Cruz.
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“The details are still coming out — and I pray the early reports are wrong — but the fact that Biden’s Rob Malley is praising the deal is not encouraging,” he added.
Last week, Trump dismissed his critics of the deal, boasting that it would be better than the Iranian deal of his predecessor. He also rebuked his detractors, saying their criticism is invalid because no one has seen the deal or knows what it contains.
“If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama,” Trump said in a separate post. “Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it, or knows what it is. It isn’t even fully negotiated yet. So don’t listen to the losers, who are critical about something they know nothing about.”