Donald Trump’s bored with the war he started in the Mideast.

In case that wasn’t obvious from his comically nonchalant remarks about the state of negotiations with Iran early Monday, he made it explicit during an afternoon phone interview with CNBC.

“I couldn’t care less,” Trump told Eamon Javers, when asked about Iranian media reports that the regime intends to break off peace talks and impose even stricter controls over the Strait of Hormuz in protest to escalating violence in Lebanon. The diplomatic back-and-forth, Trump said, is “start[ing] to get very boring.”

Stocks agree, that’s for sure. US equities moved on from the war weeks ago. The S&P was on track Monday for its 15th record since the local lows in late-March.

All-time highs are a near-daily occurrence. Not that anyone needs a reminder, but the benchmark’s gunning for a 10th straight weekly advance. Monday’s strength was in no small part attributable to Nvidia, which rose nearly 6% after announcing a new PC processor.

It wasn’t clear whether the Iranians were in fact prepared to leave the table on Monday as the IDF readied an expanded operation in Dahiya, the southern suburb of Beirut which serves as Hezbollah’s political and military operations center. The Tasnim report suggesting as much felt more like a threat than an official announcement.

Regardless, Trump appeared to recognize that Benjamin Netanyahu was yet again on the brink of an escalation with the potential to derail weeks of negotiations. So, Trump called him up. “There will be no [Israeli] troops going to Beirut,” he said, in a short (for him) social media update. “Any troops that are on their way have already been turned back.”

That has echoes of June 24, 2025, when Trump, by his own account, ordered the IDF to abort an in-progress bombing campaign against targets in Iran. Then, as now, The White House was at pains to ensure Netanyahu didn’t undermine a fragile ceasefire.

Amusingly, Trump also described “a very good call with Hezbollah,” who he said “agreed that all shooting will stop.” Only Trump would detail, publicly, a phone call between The White House and an OFAC-designated global terrorist organization. (Shades of September 2019, when he invited the Taliban to Camp David.)

Despite the bluster from Iranian propaganda channels, and notwithstanding how “bored” he is by the whole “nuclear dust” discussion by now, Trump insisted talks with Iran are ongoing.

Asked by CNBC about gas prices for beleaguered American households, Trump reiterated a familiar talking point: Prices will fall sharply once this is all resolved.

He provided a time line for that relief. Sort of. “Oil will be dropping like a rock in the very near — you know — the very near distance,” he told Javers.