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Trump Told “Unpatriotic Republicans” to Stop Chirping About Iran at 1 AM
By Mike Harper · June 1, 2026
At 1:02 in the morning on Monday, President Trump posted on Truth Social about the Iran war. He was, by all accounts, wide awake.
“Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us.”
He then turned to the people he blamed for making that deal harder to achieve.
“But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively ‘chirping,’ at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever.”
“Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end — It always does!”
The post landed at 1:02 AM on day 93 of a war that Trump initially said would last four to five weeks. The gap between that projection and the current reality is where the post lives.
On March 11 — day 11 of the war — Trump told reporters: “Let me tell you, we’ve won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over. But we won.” Approximately two weeks later, he said it again: “We’ve won this. This war has been won.”
It was not won. It has not ended. The Strait of Hormuz — the waterway through which 20% of the world’s seaborne oil passes and whose reopening was the stated objective of Operation Epic Fury — remains effectively closed to normal commercial traffic. Gas nationally is $4.55. Inflation hit a three-year high in April. The ceasefire declared on April 8 has since included US strikes on Iran, Iranian missile launches at American bases in Kuwait, and the shootdown of a US Predator drone — all of which happened in the previous 72 hours before Trump’s 1 AM post.
The “unpatriotic Republicans” he described are the senators and House members who have been voting in increasing numbers to invoke the War Powers Act and force a congressional authorization or withdrawal. The Senate voted 49-50 on the question — one vote from passing. The House canceled a floor vote because leadership determined it would lose. The “chirping” Trump described is the constitutional mechanism Congress uses to reclaim war-making authority from the executive branch.
Trump turns 80 on June 14. He is the oldest sitting president in American history. The 1 AM posting is not new — he has maintained an irregular overnight posting schedule throughout both terms. What is new is the context: a president posting in the middle of the night to ask his critics to stop criticizing a war he declared over multiple times, while Iranian missiles are actively being intercepted above American bases in Kuwait.
The post ended with a period of optimism.
“I will get it done, & quickly!!!”
It has been 93 days.