‘Don’t Care About Midterms’: Trump Rejects Any Political Pressure To Finalise Iran Deal

Last Updated:May 28, 2026, 07:39 IST

Trump said the upcoming midterm elections and rising gas prices, triggered by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, have not added any pressure on him to seal a deal.

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday, in a cabinet meeting, indicated that the door remains open for more negotiations with Iran but denied facing any political pressure to finalise a peace deal and end the three-month-long war and the looming fuel crisis.

He said the upcoming midterm elections and rising gas prices, triggered by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, have not added any pressure on him to seal a deal and reopen the crucial waterway for oil tankers and commercial shipping traffic.

Trump said, “I don’t think (Iran) has a choice" but to make a peace deal. “They’re just going back to the internet because they’re getting clobbered," he said.

“They thought they were going to outwait me, you know, we’ll outwait him, he’s got the midterms. I don’t care about the midterms, look what happened last night, that was the prelude to the midterms," the US president added.

The remark appeared to reference Tuesday night’s victory in Texas, where Trump-backed candidate Ken Paxton defeated longtime Republican heavyweight Senator John Cornyn in a primary runoff contest.

Addressing gas prices, which touched a four-year high in the United States over the Memorial Day weekend, Trump brushed aside suggestions that the spike had heightened the urgency to secure a deal. “The primary urgency is that we can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon," Trump said, further predicting that prices were “going to come down fast."

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