Bad Deal Coming…

"I don't make bad deals," says Trump. Here's a critical reminder of how the first ceasefire was agreed to, including "the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks." See below for… pic.twitter.com/lxqcssQazp

— Matthew RJ Brodsky (@MattRJBrodsky) May 24, 2026

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“I don’t make bad deals,” says Trump. Here’s a critical reminder of how the first ceasefire was agreed to, including “the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.” See below for Trump’s original announcement.

So that was 2 weeks to stop the spread, so to speak.

Iran never complied and we continued the 2-week ceasefire for 60 days+. Instead of behaving as the victors in this war, we’ve been chasing them ever since, and squandering our leverage. It’s clear the previous ceasefire was, in fact, “a bad deal.” Everything publicly available about the current negotiations suggests an even worse deal is on the way.

All those employed by Trump who were teenagers when Obama made the 2015 JCPOA opposed the war to begin with and don’t realize that they are saying the exact same nonsense that Team Obama said then.

Those of us who understand and have worked on this issue for more than a decade are not having now, just like we weren’t having it then.