BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal Slams Trump for Getting Played by Iran
Trump sold his Iran deal as a step toward real peace. Monday night, the most reliably conservative editorial page in America called it a fraud. Not CNN. Not MSNBC. The Wall Street Journal.
In a scathing Monday evening editorial, the Journal’s board wrote that it hopes Trump realizes the agreement “Iran signed with him was a fraud.” The memorandum of understanding lasted only a few weeks before collapsing, and the board now describes it as “in tatters.”
They didn’t stop there. Trump’s newest scheme, a 20 percent toll on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz, roughly $15 on every barrel of oil, got labeled a “bad idea” by the same writers who spend most of their time defending Republican presidents.
Then came the sentence that has to sting the most. “With the MOU Mr. Trump gave the regime a reprieve, and as usual it perceived U.S. weakness,” the board wrote.
Read that again. The flagship paper of conservative media just said Iran looked at Donald Trump, saw weakness, and exploited it.
This is the man who spent a decade telling America he alone could make the deals nobody else could make. That foreign leaders feared him. That strength was back. Instead, Iran signed his paper, pocketed the reprieve, and made a mockery of the whole arrangement, according to the Journal itself.
For years, every Trump failure could be waved away as fake news from the liberal media. That excuse just died. When the Wall Street Journal’s own editorial board is publishing postmortems on how Iran conned the president, there is no messenger left to shoot.
The strongman act only works if everyone agrees to keep pretending. This week, his own side stopped pretending.
