The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman suggested on Wednesday that Donald Trump appears increasingly frustrated with his Iran war and is now eager to move on.

But she then highlighted a major problem for the president.

“He’s clearly frustrated. He’s voicing that almost every day,” Haberman told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who’d asked Haberman for her “sense of where the president’s head is at” as the conflict drags into its eighth week.

Haberman, who has reported on Trump for years, said: “My sense is the president would like to just be done with this, and he has other things he’d like to focus on.”

“But wars are intractable,” she pointed out.

Haberman said Trump’s own words offer the clearest insight into his thinking, pointing to his recent Truth Social posts and a lengthy CNBC “Squawk Box” interview.

But Trump’s public proclamations may not reflect those of the other parties involved in negotiations to end the war, she said.

“I think there is a difference between how he feels and what he is thinking and what, clearly, how the Iranians are viewing things, as well as how the Pakistanis are viewing things,” Haberman said, adding that key figures including Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Vice President JD Vance are involved in ongoing efforts to engage with intermediaries.

Watch Haberman’s commentary here: