Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini, Hosanna in Excelsis, part thirty-seven

A remarkable turn of events has occurred in the farcical world of Judeo-Masonic naturalism: President Donald John Trump, who turned eighty years of age yesterday, Sunday, June 14, 2026, the Third Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of Saint Basil the Great, appears to have had it with one of the world’s most egregious mass murderers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who went out of his Zionist way to try to sabotage the expected signing of the “deal” that Trump was anticipating signing with whichever faction of faithful Mohammedan murderers who claim to have authority to act on behalf of the Islamic Republican of Iran.

Indeed, Trump has used profanity in his telephone calls with Netanyahu on several occasions recently, including after the latter decided to order the Israeli military to conduct air strikes over the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, even though the Trump administration had negotiated a ceasefire, whatever that means these days, among Israel, Lebanon, and Hezbollah, which exercise de facto control over much of Lebanon, that was supposed to stop Hezbollah forces from attacking Israel and stop Israeli forces from seizing more territory and undertaking their own air strikes in Lebanon:

United States President Donald Trump has criticised Israel for launching an attack on Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on the day he has said a deal to end the US-Israel war with Iran could be signed.

In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said the Israeli attack on Beirut “should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran”.

“We are very close to a Deal that will bring peace to the region, including to Lebanon, and all sides should stand down,” he said.

“There should be no more attacks by Israel anywhere in Lebanon, but there should also be no more attacks by any other party, including Hezbollah, against Israel,” he said.

“This could be the beginning of a long and beautiful peace — Let’s not blow it!”

Hours later, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said “the responsibility for the dangerous consequences” of Israel’s actions “will lie” with the US and Israel.

Prior to that, Iran’s top negotiator and parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Israel’s attacks had again drawn US trust into question.

The US and Israel twice launched attacks against Iran – sparking the 12-day war in 2025 and the current war on February 28 – amid ongoing indirect talks over Iran’s nuclear programme.

In a post on X, Ghalibaf said the US “either lacks the will to fulfil its commitments or the ability to do so”.

“If you lack the will and ability to fulfil your commitments, speaking of continuing the path is not possible,” he said.

“We are very close to a Deal that will bring peace to the region, including to Lebanon, and all sides should stand down,” he said.

“There should be no more attacks by Israel anywhere in Lebanon, but there should also be no more attacks by any other party, including Hezbollah, against Israel,” he said.

“This could be the beginning of a long and beautiful peace — Let’s not blow it!”

Hours later, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said “the responsibility for the dangerous consequences” of Israel’s actions “will lie” with the US and Israel.

Prior to that, Iran’s top negotiator and parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Israel’s attacks had again drawn US trust into question.

The US and Israel twice launched attacks against Iran – sparking the 12-day war in 2025 and the current war on February 28 – amid ongoing indirect talks over Iran’s nuclear programme.

In a post on X, Ghalibaf said the US “either lacks the will to fulfil its commitments or the ability to do so”.

“If you lack the will and ability to fulfil your commitments, speaking of continuing the path is not possible,” he said. . . .

Israeli attacks

Authorities have said at least three people have been killed in the Israeli strikes on the Dahiyeh area of Beirut.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said the military launched the strikes in response to Hezbollah firing projectiles towards northern Israel.

In his post on Truth Social, Trump questioned the justification.

“Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless, nobody was hurt, injured, or killed, and should not disrupt this important process,” he said.

Trump on Saturday said that a deal with Iran was “scheduled” to be signed on Sunday, with top mediator Pakistan indicating the signing would be digital.

In a Sunday interview with Axios, Trump maintained that the signing was still on track, but would be delayed “by a few hours” due to the Israeli strikes.

Trump also voiced further frustration with Netanyahu, who critics have charged with repeatedly seeking to derail diplomacy.

“It is so bad, I couldn’t believe it. An hour before we are supposed to sign the deal,” Trump said.

“I was so pissed off. I let him know. He has no [expletive] judgement. I let him know that.”

Both sides indicate deal close

But Iranian officials have offered a slightly different timeline, with Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying on Saturday that the signing could take days.

Still, both sides have broadly indicated that a signing of a memorandum of understanding to end fighting on all fronts, including in Lebanon, was closer than ever.

While no official terms of that initial agreement have been released, both sides have indicated that the Strait of Hormuz would be open, the US naval blockade lifted, and fighting would be immediately halted.

Questions over the deeply entrenched issues of the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, frozen Iranian assets and sanctions relief were expected to be addressed in a 60-day period following the initial signing.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Sami Nader, the director of the Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs, called Israel’s attacks on Sunday a “strategic test” for both sides. (Trump condemns Israel’s attack on Beirut as Iran says US responsible.)

President Trump’s anger at Benjamin Netanyahu is quite belated as he, Trump, has stood by while Israel conducted an aerial bombing campaign in southern Lebanon prior to sending its troops into that country to “neutralize” Hezbollah at the cost of displacing over a million people, damaging Biblical cities such as Tyre, and killing over four thousand people and injuring nearly twelve thousand others (see Rocket attack in southern Lebanon injures 2 Israeli soldiers). The Israeli attacks in Gaza have also continued despite a “ceasefire” there was announced eight months ago. I suppose that they just don’t make ceasefires like they used to, huh?

Now, wanting to make this as brief as possible because of new findings about the extent of nerve damage to my wrists that have brough on carpal tunnel syndrome, permit me to reiterate what I have said through the past fifteen weeks since the onset of the American and Israeli attacks upon Iran began: There was no casus belli to justify the undertaking of those attacks and the “memorandum of understanding” that is to be signed on June 19, 2026, the Octave Day of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Commemoration of Saint Juliana Falconieri, only provides the framework for another two-month window for further negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program and its support of Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations.

There is a little detail here that many commentators have missed: what is known thus far about the “memorandum of understanding” was on the verge of being agreed to prior to the onset of hostilities on Saturday, February 28, 2026, except that Benjamin Netanyahu convinced Donald John Trump that an Israeli strike upon Iran’s leadership followed by massive American and Israeli bombing would create the conditions for a quick and “clean” Venezuela-style “taming” of the Iranian regime, if not an actual popular uprising.

How did that work out?

It can be argued that the faithful Mohammedan murders who run the Islamic Republic of Iran are in a stronger position now than they were before the American-Israeli attacks began, attacks that prompted Iranian officials to close and boobytrap the Strait of Hormuz.

Thus, the fact that the most immediate provision of the “memorandum of understanding,”  aparet from the ceasing of hostilities by the United States and Iran, is the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz no kind of “victory” for the United States of America as the Strait was not “closed” until the American-Israeli attack began.

In other words, fifteen weeks of death and destruction, during which time President Donald John Trump threatened such things as to “bomb Iran back to the stone age where they belong” and to bomb Iranian bridges and power plants, vowing repeatedly to get the “nuclear dust,” and threatening to destroy, if not occupy, Kharg Island, have brought us back to where the negotiations were heading on February 26, 2026, two days before the war began.

Trump also said on no less than thirty-eight occasions that a “deal” was “near” and/or that the war would end “soon”:

It’s been more than two months since President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran, saying at the time that the two sides were close to a deal.

Trump said on social media on April 7 that they were “very far along” but needed two weeks for “the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.” He concluded by saying that “it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution.”

There was no resolution, of course. But Trump has nonetheless spent the two months since then continuing to suggest a deal was right around the corner. A lot.

Including the period before the ceasefire, he’s done it at least 38 times. That’s the number of times he’s said directly — in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media — that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate to cut one.

There’s no indication that’s any more true today than it was back on April 7. But Trump keeps saying it, either because he’s delusional, trying to calm the financial markets or thinking he can will it into existence.

But it’s clearly not a claim people should take seriously anymore.

It began March 23, less than a month into the war. Trump was telling reporters outside Air Force One about supposed peace talks and cited “major points of agreement, I would ​say — almost all points of agreement.” (In fact, Iran denied negotiations.)

By the next day, he started trotting out what has become a common refrain: that Iran was desperate to cut a deal.

“I think we’re going to end it,” Trump added. “I can’t tell you for sure.”

By March 25, it became that Iran wanted to “make a deal so badly.” On March 26, at a Cabinet meeting, Iran was “begging to make a deal.”

(Despite being so anxious to cut that deal, Iran has somehow resisted for two and a half more months.)

By March 29, during a gaggle with reporters on Air Force One, Trump was asked if he foresaw clinching a deal in the next week, and he responded: “I do see a deal in Iran, yeah.”

Trump’s predictions started to grow more insistent at this point. On April 6, he said they had been “very close to a deal” before a setback.

The next day, he announced the ceasefire, which was originally supposed to last two weeks while the two sides hammered out an agreement.

A week later, on April 15, he told Fox Business, “I think it’s close to over, I view it as very close to over.”

“We’ll see what happens,” he added. “I think they want to make a deal very badly.”

The next few days, Trump practically assured it was over:

Despite that not panning out, Iran was still “dying to make a deal” on April 30.

“When the war ends, which shouldn’t be too long …” he wagered to reporters on May 1.

Trump held back on his predictions for a spell, before announcing on May 18 that he was delaying military strikes for “two or three days” at the request of Middle Eastern countries, “because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal.”

At this point, even Trump seemed to acknowledge how often such predictions had gone awry.

“We’ve had periods of time where we had — we thought pretty much getting close to making a deal and it didn’t work out,” Trump said, before adding: “But this is a little bit different.”

It was not different. But he remained undeterred.

“We’re gonna end that war very quickly,” Trump said May 19 at a congressional picnic.

By May 23, he made the rounds much like he had on April 17. He said the administration was “getting a lot closer” to a deal. He said the deal was “largely negotiated, subject to finalization.” And he said the deal would be announced “shortly” and that the “final aspects” were being discussed.

On May 28, in an interview with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, things were “close to a very good deal.”

And on Sunday, he assured that they were “very close to having a deal,” but that Iran and Israel were jeopardizing it by engaging in a side scuffle.

“We are very close to a final deal with Iran,” he told Axios. “It is going to be a good deal. I don’t want it to blow up because of what is happening now.”

It was at least the third time Trump told Axios that a deal was imminent.

And despite the tensions between Israel and Iran, Trump is still leaning in.

And on Sunday [June 7, 2026], he assured that they were “very close to having a deal,” but that Iran and Israel were jeopardizing it by engaging in a side scuffle.

“We are very close to a final deal with Iran,” he told Axios. “It is going to be a good deal. I don’t want it to blow up because of what is happening now.”

It was at least the third time Trump told Axios that a deal was imminent.

And despite the tensions between Israel and Iran, Trump is still leaning in.

During a tele-rally for Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Monday, Trump predicted “total victory” in the next two weeks and said Iran was “willing to give us everything.”

Then, speaking to reporters early Tuesday after attending the NBA Finals in New York City, Trump said the sides were “in final throes of what will be a very, very good deal.”

“The strait will open up right away,” Trump added. “It’ll open up immediately upon signing, which could be in two or three days.” (How many times has Trump claimed an Iran deal is around the corner?)

Well, this time it was “different” as Trump agreed to a “deal” that opens a waterway that was not closed until the war began and, in essence, brings the negotiations to the point where they were they were fifteen weeks, five days ago.

In all this, you see, there was no sense of proportionality, that is, of trying to foresee the unintended evil consequences that would occur from the onset of hostilities as (a) Trump had no clearly stated goals other than to make sure that Iran could never have a nuclear weapon even though he had said a year ago that Iran’s nuclear facilities had been “obliterated”; and (b) Trump was “played” by Netanyahu, who was using American military involvement to advance the goals of the Greater Israel project.

Many people around the world, however, including many Americans, began to see the criminal nature of the Zionist regime and its disregard for all innocent non-Israeli human life and its ability to overlook its “settlers” killing Palestinians in the West Bank and stealing their lands, burning their crops, and killing their livestock.

As I have noted so many hundreds upon hundreds of times in my teaching, speaking, and writing careers, there can never be any true and lasting peace if the souls of men are in open rebellion against the Most Blessed Trinity by means of their Mortal Sins, which disposes them to hate, kill, deceive without much, if any, moral reflection or genuine priestly guidance to restrain their passions from acting rashly and without any due consideration given to First and Last Things and without any recourse being had to the Immaculate Queen of Peace herself, Our Lady, especially through her Most Holy Rosary.

As noted two days ago, it was on June 13, 1917, that Our Lady appeared to Jacinta and Francisco Marto and their cousin Lucia dos Santos for the second time in the Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal, explaining to them that:

 

"Jesus wants to make me known and loved. He wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. I promise salvation to those who practice this devotion. Those souls will be loved by God like flowers arranged by me to decorate His throne." She then went on to tell Lucia, "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the road that will lead you to Heaven."

Yes, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, out which was formed the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which we honor during this month of June, must be our refuge and the road that will lead us home to Heaven as we pray “Jesus, King and Center of all hearts, by the coming of Thy Kingdom, grant us peace,” and “Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy Kingdom come.”

The much anticipated “memorandum of understanding” will do nothing to advance true peace, that is, the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ, which will not be established until men quit their persistence in their sins, make reparation for their sins, and then turn to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary to exclaim una voce dicentes:

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dóminus, Deus Sábaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra glória tua. Hosánna in excélsis. Benedíctus, qui venit in nómine Dómini. Hosánna in excélsis.

Our Lady of  the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saints Vitus, Crescentia, and Modestus, pray for us.