Megan Briggs / Megan Briggs/Getty Images A reporter was able to distract Donald Trump even as the president was in the middle of a “very important” meeting about the war in Iran. PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Liz Landers posted on X that she had a brief phone call with Trump on Monday morning about the conflict in the Middle East , even though the president was participating in official discussions on the matter. “He noted when he answered that it was not a good time to chat because he was in the middle of a ‘very important meeting’ about it,” Landers posted on X. Read more at The Daily Beast.