After countless victory laps, Donald Trump has finally conceded that he needed to strike some kind of deal with Iran to avoid a global “economic catastrophe.”
Speaking at the G7 summit in France, Trump also outlined his fear of becoming “the next Herbert Hoover” —the U.S president widely blamed for the Great Depression of 1929. “I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that could have happened,” he told reporters, later adding: “It could have caused an international depression.”