“Within the next two weeks.” This is the time margin that now gives the Donald Trump to decide whether to bombard the Iran or not. This new “deadline” was announced by his spokesman, Caroline Levit, during the reporting of journalists on Thursday afternoon (19.06.2025). But as he read the President’s announcement, many in the room felt a… strange intimacy with the timetable that.
As everyone knows in Washington, the “two weeks”, the deadline he gave to decide on Iran is one Magic number for Trump.
When eight weeks ago he was asked if he trusts the Vladimir Putin, His answer was: “I’ll tell you in about two weeks.”
Tax plans, health policies, evidence of conspiracy theories that claimed to be true, the battle against ISIS, the opening of coal mines, infrastructure – all that, at some point, became riddled that promised to solve “in two weeks” The New York Times.
According to the report, this is not as much a unit of measure of time, as much as a form of waiting.
Promise or Avoidance?
For Trump, the “two weeks” may mean something, or nothing at all. Is at the same time one ‘Yes’ and a ‘no’. It is a delay, but also a promise of act. It is not an objective time unit, it is subjective. It is fully disconnected from any sense of time sequence. In fact, It just means “later”. But “later” can mean “never”. Sometimes.
Will the United States bombard in Iran? We don’t know. Will we really find out within two weeks? We don’t even know that.
A journalist in the information room tried to bring the “Trump line” to the field of reality and time as we all experience it.
“President Trump has said in the past, in relation to Russia, the phrase” about two weeks “, and then gave another two -week deadline,” the journalist told Levit.
“How can we be sure that he will keep this deadline for Iran?”
Levit essentially replied that “we cannot compare situations with each other”.
It was, in fact, more a metaphysical question than politics.