House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., spoke with a "frustrated" Donald Trump on Tuesday morning after Iran and Israel both violated a ceasefire that the president has been brokering between the two countries.
Trump said the ceasefire between Iran and Israel remained in effect after the deal initially faltered.
Before walking to Marine One to begin a trip to the NATO summit in Europe, the president used profanity to describe the situation.
"Speaker Johnson spoke with Trump just after the president said Israel and Iran 'don't know what the f**k they're doing,'" Politico's Meredith Lee Hill posted on X.
"'Look he's frustrated, everybody just saw that demonstrated. We all are, right? The ceasefire is fragile... The president wants cooler heads to prevail.'"
Earlier, Trump expressed disappointment that Iran and Israel both "violated" the ceasefire.
"We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f**k they're doing, do you understand that?" he said.
"I didn't like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal. And now I hear Israel just went out because they felt violated by one rocket that didn't land anywhere."
Israel accused Iran of launching missiles into its airspace after the ceasefire was supposed to take hold. Iran's state media said its military denied firing on Israel.
Israel and Iran had accepted a ceasefire plan proposed by Trump to end their 12-day war that roiled the Middle East, following Tehran's limited, retaliatory missile attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar on Monday.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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