Trump, 79, Stays Out of Sight for a Second Day Running

Today in The Swamp: Tuesday, June 2

If that’s Tehran, tell them I’m playing golf. Photo credit: Aaron Schwartz/Reuters

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

There is a controversial episode of the legendary comedy series Fawlty Towers in which Mony Python alum John Cleese plays a hotel manager trying and failing to hide his anti-German sentiment toward a visiting party from Britain’s World War Two foe.

The episode is called ‘Don’t Mention the War,’ and The Swamp suspects that is the very sentiment at the White House today after the president’s comically contradictory comments about his Iran War on Monday.

One moment he was promising a solution and insisting all would be well, then he was saying he didn’t really care, and the Iranians made all his remarks moot by pulling out of the peace talks, anyway, which confirmed the one thing we did understand about the impasse—it’s a bloody mess.

No wonder Donald Trump is keeping his head down for the second day running at the White House today … presumably so nobody can ask him about the war.

In the meantime, Trump has clearly been trying to amuse himself by mixing and matching the most ridiculous jobs. On Tuesday, he made his attack dog housing guy, Bill Pulte, the acting Director of National Intelligence.

Tomorrow, he’s putting Pete Hegseth in charge of the Education Department. At least, he is uniquely unqualified for both jobs…

On Thursday, RFK Jr. can combine HHS with the FBI to investigate his own conspiracies. Why not give him a third department? He can have Agriculture and oversee the nation’s zoos.