TRUMP: ‘WE ARE SPEAKING’: Just minutes after his 98-minute long televised Cabinet meeting, in which President Donald Trump boasted the Iran War was “extremely, really a lot ahead of schedule,” Trump posted on Truth Social “As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M.”

The post came just 11 minutes after the markets closed with the S&P 500 posting another steep loss, down 1.7%, while oil prices spiked, with the benchmark Brent crude up 1.9% at $109 a barrel. Trump immediately called in to Fox News to tamp down suggestions by what he called the “fake news” media that the war was heading into a dangerous escalatory phase. And Trump acknowledged that Iran would likely deny everything he said during his Cabinet session. “Now, they may say, oh, we’re not speaking,” he told The Five’s Kayleigh McEnany. “But we are speaking, and it’s going fairly well.”