A school trip to the White House to visit the president sounds exciting, even if that president happens to be Donald Trump. And yet the kids positioned around the Resolute Desk yesterday looked like they’d rather be anywhere else than having a visibly tired and checked-out old man burble on about Iran.
The kids were in attendance for Trump signing a proclamation restoring the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, part of RFK Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” program, with the signing being followed by fitness demonstrations on the South Lawn.
Along the way, Trump insisted he’s fit enough to handle a 50-mile hike (I would love to see him try) and left the kids perplexed by a ramble about trans athletes. He also told them they should be thankful to him, as they all might be dead if he hadn’t started his stupid war with Iran:
🚨TRUMP TO SCHOOL KIDS: ‘IRAN WAS 2 WEEKS AWAY FROM KILLING YOU’ pic.twitter.com/D9KOzovpv5
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) May 5, 2026
“We just broke every record and now we’re gonna take a hit because we have to take a journey down to Iran to take their nuclear weapon. They would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks. Remember, we sent that beautiful B2 bomber in. We uh.. blew up their… nuclear potential. It was obliterated… for those that are not aware.. We’re at a point that it would take them weeks to dig down and we wouldn’t let them dig down, we had our eyes on them the whole time… but it was a very… important thing”
Every kid in attendance looks bored out of their mind, yawning and staring into space. Even Pete Hegseth looks checked out, and RFK Jr appears to be on his phone. Perhaps sensing he’s losing the room, Trump tried to jazz things up with a little mass death:
“So, we would have a.. uh, Iran with a nuclear weapon. And maybe we wouldn’t all be here right now. I can tell you the Middle East would have been gone. Israel would have been gone. And they would have trained their sights on Europe first and then us. Because they’re sick people. These are sick people. And we’re not going to let lunatics have a nuclear weapon.”
Does Trump actually believe his own lies?
It probably goes without saying that this is total nonsense and Trump is lying. Iran wasn’t anywhere close to developing a nuclear weapon. Even if they did have one, they don’t have missiles capable of reaching the United States.
It can only be underlined that there is only one country with nuclear weapons threatening to destroy the Middle East: the United States of America. Trump and his cronies warble on that his threat last month that a “civilization will die” wasn’t a nuclear threat, but if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.
These kids will almost certainly remember this visit to the White House for the rest of their lives. But rather than them being inspired by meeting the president, it looks like the reaction was underwhelmed boredom and disappointment. Who can blame them?
Published: May 6, 2026 05:48 am