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President Trump made a ceasefire with Iran which did not seem possible.
Doesn’t matter.
Trump pressured Israel to stop its attacks on Lebanon.
So what.
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President Donald Trump pretends to take aim with a sniper gun as he speaks to reporters in the James Brady press briefing room of the White House on Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (Julia Demari Nikhinson/AP Photo)
As investors concluded that the war was about to end, the stock market reached record highs.
Big deal.
No matter what the man does, his opponents will not give him credit.
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And when the murderous mullahs again close the Strait of Hormuz – they say, in retaliation, for the US enforcing its blockade of Iranian ports – you can practically hear the sigh of relief that the peace deal may be broken.
Trump told ABC’s Jonathan Karl yesterday that Iran had committed a “serious violation” of the ceasefire, but he was still confident about the deal:
“It’s going to happen. One way or another, the good way or the hard way. It’s going to happen. You can quote me.”
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On X, Carl had to bother to call the President for comment on a significant setback in the war.
“Why compromise yourself as a journalist and post BS from a twisted lie?” A woman said.
A poster is stuck to the windshield of a motorbike depicting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei as government supporters gather to mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)
“John, just stop,” said another female poster. “You know he doesn’t have a clue so he just keeps feeding you guys lies.”
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Following Carl’s exchange, Trump tweeted: “No more Mr. Nice Guy1.”
A banner headline on Drudge read, “Leaked: Trump obsessed with fear.” It was linked to a Wall Street Journal article detailing Trump’s frustration with the war, sometimes losing focus and thinking about awarding himself the Medal of Honor.
When Tehran fired on two Indian-flagged ships in the strait, it was a troubling signal. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf says the two sides are far apart on a final agreement. Maybe this is a negotiation strategy.
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The big thing is that when the President does something that turns out to be right, most Democrats and many in the media will not approve of it. Because it’s Trump.
Now some of this lies in Trump’s decision, under pressure from Israel, to launch a war of his choice, by launching airstrikes against Iran without permission from Congress or our supposed European allies.
President Donald Trump confirmed that the US will launch strikes on Iran on Saturday, February 28, 2026. (White House X Account/Anadolu via Getty Images/Contributor/Getty Images)
Maybe that was a bad decision. It certainly wasn’t popular.
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Seven weeks later, a new Politico poll found that 38% of those surveyed support the strike – and nearly half say Trump spends too much time on global affairs rather than domestic issues.
The president’s inflammatory rhetoric hasn’t helped, from “Close the F–ing Strait” on Easter Sunday to pledging two days later that “an entire civilization will die tonight.”
So I understand those who have principled objections to the war, especially former Trump acolytes in the conservative media.
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But whether he was lucky or suddenly fell into the right position, he certainly deserves some late recognition.
Trump says his tough and sometimes erratic words threw the Iranian leaders who survived the bombing off balance. And, of course, his latest delay in stopping the bombing left room for a temporary agreement (which in theory expires on Tuesday).
Lebanese civil defense workers inspect debris at the site of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (Hussain Malla/AP Photo)
Let’s: If President Biden had achieved the dual ceasefires with Iran and Lebanon, Democrats would be hailing him as a great commander-in-chief and powerful peacemaker. (And most Republicans would be critical.)
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Trump, never one to shy away from taking credit, posted Friday: “The failing New York Times, Fake News CNN, and others, don’t know what to do. They’re desperately looking for any reason to criticize President Donald J. Trump over the Iran situation, but they can’t find one.”
Trump, meanwhile, has not lost his talent for walking his own story.
By posting a fake AI photo of himself as Jesus and a follow-up of Christ consoling him, the president angered many Catholic followers, who saw the images as blasphemous. Trump had to make the first deletion within 12 hours, which he almost never does.
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I know why he did it. Trump wanted to draw attention to his war of words with Pope Leo, and this guaranteed that the topic would be in the news for days. He even had JD Vance, a converted Catholic, warn the American-born Pope to be careful when discussing theology.
By the way, I don’t agree with Pete Hegseth (who actually gave a Bible verse taken from “Pulp Fiction”) unloading on the “Trump-hating” legacy media. I don’t believe he portrayed the war as a failure.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington on April 8, 2026. (Manuel Balse Seneta/AP)
But in watching show after show after Trump’s announcement, I noticed that some straightforward reporting on the president’s updates quickly turned to Jesus rants, NATO condemnations, the Epstein files, RFK’s apparent shift on vaccines, Viktor Orban’s debacle — all the same things they would have been talking about if there had been no progress on the war.
Why do Trump and Iran seem far from each other on any possible agreement to end the war?
Despite the President’s repeated declarations of victory, we have to ask where his main rationale for the airstrike remains – preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
Whether such an outcome was imminent or not, I do not see Iranians, who lie for a living, agreeing to abandon their long-term ambitions.
Instead what I’ve seen is Trump saying he would strongly consider freeing up $20 billion in Iranian assets if the US could remove enriched uranium and underground nuclear “dust” from the country. Perhaps with that alleged price tag, it is suitable for the world’s largest terrorist state.
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But as we’ve just learned again, the devil is always in the details.
Let’s say the ceasefire holds, Hormuz is reopened, and a deal is made – for the sake of argument, all warnings about how this train could be derailed are set aside.
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Will the Democrats and the mainstream media even reluctantly admit that Donald Trump has done something historic?
I’m not so sure about that.
