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The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
4.9 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Iran deal rumors, Thomas Massie, Camille Kiefel, Bryan Walsh at Vox, and Chris Olah of Anthropic headline today's A.M. Update. Trump's Memorial Day Truth Social post lays out his framework for an Iran settlement, demanding Saudi Arabia and Qatar sign the Abraham Accords first, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian goes on state television to say Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons, and Marco Rubio cautions that paper agreements still have to be implemented. A gunman opens fire at a Secret Service checkpoint outside the White House on Saturday and is killed, with a bystander also hit by gunfire. Freshly ousted Rep. Thomas Massie goes on the media circuit promising to read the full Epstein client list on the House floor before he leaves Congress, and Aaron calls it not finishing well. Detransitioner Camille Kiefel reaches a reported $3.5 million settlement against the two Oregon therapists who approved her double mastectomy after brief Zoom calls. A veteran Vox climate journalist named Bryan Walsh admits that over a decade of apocalyptic climate coverage was built on an imaginary worst-case model called RCP8.5, not actual forecasting. Aaron closes with Chris Olah's remarks at the Vatican on AI's unsettling inner workings, and Aaron's own personal story: 82 app builds, two hours saved every day, and a pregnancy app for his wife now pending Apple review.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, May 26, 2026. |
| 0:02.8 | Trump says we may be close to a deal with Iran for the 50th time. |
| 0:06.2 | Thomas Massey, not finishing well, and I'm coming out of the closet. |
| 0:10.1 | Not like that. |
| 0:11.0 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:15.8 | Well, after a Memorial Day weekend, full of rumors, full of reports, full of leaks from various media outlets, |
| 0:22.3 | especially from the Middle East. President Trump on Monday, Memorial Memorial Day morning, |
| 0:27.3 | posted on Truth Social a lengthy wall of text. I'm not going to read the entire thing for you. |
| 0:32.3 | Here are some of the bullet points. He still says it's all or nothing when it comes to Iran and nuclear in their ability to develop a nuclear weapon. |
| 0:40.8 | He says talked with Iran are proceeding well, but insists on a great deal or no deal at all. |
| 0:45.9 | He says he had a meeting on Saturday with 10 regional leaders, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, all to coordinate the Iran deal and Accords expansion. Yes, and Acords, Abraham Accords expansion. |
| 1:02.4 | Trump is calling for all listed countries to simultaneously sign the Abraham Accords as a condition of any Iran settlement. Saudi Arabia and Qatar must sign first. |
| 1:12.7 | Refusal signals bad intention and exclusion from the deal. As you might already know, these are the |
| 1:18.5 | countries that are already in the Abraham Accords, which are basically opening up formal diplomatic |
| 1:23.1 | relationships with the nation of Israel. United Arab Emirates, they are a member of the Abraham |
| 1:28.6 | Accords, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, Kazakhstan, those are all members of the Abraham Accords. |
| 1:36.3 | Now Trump is saying Saudi Arabia and Qatar must sign on first, followed by Pakistan, Turkey, |
| 1:42.6 | Egypt, and Jordan. He also extended the invitation to Iran themselves. |
| 1:47.9 | He's framing the Accords as financial, economic, and social booms for the involved countries. |
| 1:54.7 | None have considered leaving thus far. |
| 1:57.4 | Trump formally directed his representatives to start the process of bringing listed countries into the Abraham Accords, framing the potential agreement as the most important deal in Middle Eastern history, bringing peace for the first time in 5,000 years. |
| 2:11.1 | So that's the gist of that wall of text that President Trump unleashed on Monday morning on Truth Social, inviting all of these |
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