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Trump has one chance to save face: Resign now

If he wants any shot at a positive legacy, time's up. He needs to cut a deal and walk away

Published June 19, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)

I watched Donald Trump speaking on stage at the end of the G7 summit in France and seriously wondered whether he had suffered a stroke.

He spoke about long-lasting black granite floors at the White House, people born with machine guns in their hands, pallets of cash and the Space Force. He made a bad joke about the popularity of first names in Iran. He began a sentence on one subject and ended on another. He compared himself to both Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon.

Hell, I wondered if I was having a stroke. None of it made sense.

But very little does these days. Maybe the president should just call it a day and resign. You win, pal. Go out on the faux high notes of this summit, the memo of understanding with Iran (whatever it may turn out to be) and the One Big Beautiful 80th Birthday Party at the White House. You’ve had a hell of a run.

But your reality show isn’t playing as well as it used to do. The more you keep on claiming that you’ve won, the more it looks like you lost.  The Iranians defied you and ended up getting more out of a deal to end a war — the one you started — than you did. Suddenly Fox News is challenging you. The Kennedy Center has literally erased you. In France, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood behind Trump looking like a kid going to the dentist, or a babysitter who doesn’t want the gig. Of course, there was also Commerce........

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