President of the United States. The President of the United States Donald Trump believes that the cessation of hostilities with Iran during the summer was a waste of time. Referring to the beginning of the conflict, Trump presented a version of events according to which Washington "had no choice." "This should have been done a long time ago, and what is happening now will end very soon," he told supporters of the Republican Party in the state of Mississippi. "We agreed to a short ceasefire, which I didn't particularly like. It seems like a waste of time to me. We allowed some ships to pass [in the Strait of Hormuz]. "We want to be good, but for me it was a waste of time," said the American leader.