President says he has not read Iran's peace proposal but has been told the concept.

Standing on the tarmac at Palm Beach International, the President was asked about Iran’s fourteen-point peace proposal. The proposal, hon, is the document that determines whether the United States resumes air strikes or stops a war. The thing the wire reporters get up at five a.m. for. The thing every embassy in three time zones is parsing for verbs.

Here is what the President said. I haven’t seen it. Then, I’m looking at it up here, while gesturing at Air Force One like a man pointing at a cooler. Then, they told me about the concept of the deal. They’re going to give me the exact wording now.

The concept of the deal.

I have worked diners since Reagan. I have served truckers, oil men, school principals, two governors, a sitting state senator with a wife problem, and a guy who absolutely was not in witness protection. I know what the concept of the deal sounds like. It sounds like a man who has not done his homework but is going to wing it anyway because he has been winging it his whole life and it has, until now, mostly worked.

The fourteen-point proposal calls for lifting the U.S. naval blockade, war reparations from us to them, and the release of Iranian assets we currently have frozen. Those are not concepts. Those are demands, in writing, with numbers attached. The kind of thing a President is supposed to read, with a pen in his hand, before he goes anywhere near a microphone.

He went to a microphone and said he had been told the concept.

If your contractor told you he had been told the concept of your kitchen remodel, you would fire him. If your accountant told you he had been told the concept of your tax return, you would call the IRS yourself, with apologies, and ask them to start over. If your surgeon told you he had been told the concept of the surgery, you would walk out of the building, sir, and you would not look back.

The man at the microphone is the President of the United States, and there is a war on. The concept of the deal.

That ought to concern you.