Trump says media won’t give him credit for Iran ceasefire progress

President Trump reached a ceasefire with Iran that seemed impossible.

It doesn’t matter.

Trump pressured Israel to end its attacks on Lebanon.

And then.

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President Donald Trump pretends to aim a sniper rifle as he speaks to reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

The stock market hit record highs as investors concluded the war was about to end.

Big deal.

No matter what the guy does, his opponents won’t give him credit.

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And when the murderous mullahs closed the Strait of Hormuz again – in retaliation, they say, for the United States imposing its own blockade of Iranian ports – one could practically hear the sighs of relief that the peace deal might collapse.

Trump told ABC’s Jonathan Karl yesterday that Iran had committed a “serious violation” of the ceasefire, but he remained confident of a deal:

“It will happen. One way or another, good or bad. It will happen. You can quote me.”

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On X, Karl got hammered for calling the president for comments on a major setback in the war.

“Why compromise yourself as a journalist and publish bullshit from a pathological liar?” » said a woman.

A poster stuck to the windshield of a motorcycle with a graphic depicting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei as government supporters gather to mark the 40th day since the assassination of his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP Photo)

“Jon, stop,” another female poster said. “You know he has no idea, so he just tells you lies.”

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After the Karl exchange, Trump tweeted: “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY1”

A banner headline on Drudge read, “LEAK: TRUMP FEAR-RIPPED.” This was linked to a Wall Street Journal article about Trump’s frustrations with the war, sometimes losing focus and mulling over the idea of ​​awarding himself the Medal of Honor.

When Tehran fired on two Indian-flagged ships in the strait, it was a worrying sign. Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Ghalibaf, says the two sides are far apart on a final deal. Maybe it’s a negotiation tactic.

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Most importantly, most Democrats and many media outlets fail to recognize that the president is doing something that turns out to be good. Because it’s Trump.

Today, this is partly because of Trump’s decision, under pressure from Israel, to launch the war of his choice, carrying out airstrikes against Iran, without even nodding to Congress or our supposed European allies.

President Donald Trump confirmed that the United States launched strikes against Iran on Saturday, February 28, 2026. (The White House via account X/Anadolu via Getty Images/Contributor/Getty Images)

Maybe it was a bad decision. It certainly wasn’t popular.

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Seven weeks later, a new Politico poll finds that 38 percent of respondents support strikes — and nearly half believe Trump spends too much time on world affairs rather than domestic issues.

The president’s inflammatory rhetoric hasn’t helped, from “Close the Strait” on Easter Sunday to promising two days later that “an entire civilization will die tonight.”

So I understand those who have principled objections to war, especially Trump’s former acolytes in the conservative media.

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But whether he was lucky or simply fell into the right situation, he certainly deserves some belated recognition.

Trump says his harsh and sometimes erratic rhetoric has unbalanced Iran’s leaders who survived the bombings. And, of course, its latest delay in bombing pause has created space for a tentative deal (which theoretically expires on Tuesday).

Lebanese civil defense officers inspect rubble at the site of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (Hussein Malla/AP Photo)

Come on: If President Biden had reached a dual ceasefire – with Iran and Lebanon – Democrats would hail him as a great commander in chief and a powerful peacemaker. (And most Republicans would be critical.)

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Trump, never one to deflect credit, posted Friday: “The Failing New York Times, FAKE NEWS CNN and others, just don’t know what to do. They are desperately looking for a reason to criticize President Donald J. Trump over the situation in Iran, but just can’t find it. »

Meanwhile, Trump has not lost his knack for drawing on his own story.

By posting this fake AI photo of himself as Jesus, along with a sequel of Christ comforting him, the president angered many Catholic followers who considered the images blasphemous. Trump had to delete the first one within 12 hours, which he almost never does.

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I know why he did that. Trump wanted to draw attention to his war of words with Pope Leo, which guaranteed the topic would dominate the news for days. He even asked JD Vance, a Catholic convert, to warn the American-born pope to be careful when discussing theology.

By the way, I disagree with Pete Hegseth (who delivered a Bible verse actually from “Pulp Fiction”) unloading on the “Trump-hating” mainstream media. I don’t think they presented the war as a failure.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, April 8, 2026. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

But as I watched show after show after Trump’s announcement, I saw a bit of direct reporting on the president’s update quickly fade into the uproar of Jesus, dissing NATO, the Epstein files, RFK’s apparent change on vaccines, Victor Orban’s defeat — all the same things they would have been talking about if there had been no progress in the war.

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Despite the president’s repeated declarations of victory, we must wonder where this would lead to his primary justification for airstrikes: preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons.

Whether such an outcome is imminent or not, I have not seen the Iranians, who lie for a living, agreeing to give up their long-held ambitions.

What I saw instead was Trump saying he would seriously consider unlocking $20 billion in Iranian assets if the United States could remove enriched uranium – and underground nuclear “dust” – from the country. Maybe with this supposed price tag, it’s worth it for the world’s largest terrorist state.

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But as we have just learned, the devil is always in the details.

Let’s say the ceasefire holds, Hormuz is reopened, and a deal is reached – putting aside, for the sake of argument, all the warnings about how this train might go off the rails.

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Will Democrats and the mainstream media even grudgingly admit that Donald Trump accomplished something quite historic?

I’m not so sure.