“Almost everyone in Washington already knows that” two weeks “is one of Trump's favorite units,” emphasized “NYT”. At the end of May, when he was asked if, according to him, Vladimir Putin really wants to end the war, He replied that he would answer in two weeks.
“Tax plans, health protection policy, evidence confirming conspiracy theories, which in his opinion are true, the fight with the Islamic State, the opening of some coal mines, infrastructure plans – all this at one or other moment the president promised to solve within two weeks” – the newspaper calculated.
“Later it can never mean”
The daily at the same time assessed that two weeks for Trump might as well mean something or have no meaning. “It is also yes and no. It is delaying and simultaneous planning. It is a subjective unit of time. It is detached from all chronology. It just means – later. But later it can never mean” – we read.
“Do the US bomb Iran? We don't know. Will we really know the answer to this question in two weeks? We don't know that either” – summed up the author.
The spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt on Thursday during the briefing quoted the words of the president, who announced that “taking into account the fact that there is a significant chance of negotiating with Iran, which may or cannot take place in the near future”, he would decide whether to enter the war against Iran or not in the next two weeks.
