Although full details of Trump’s Iran deal, which is still being negotiated, have not been provided by the administration, the president has come under fire for supposedly caving to the mullahs and failing to mete out harsh enough consequences for the terroristic regime.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earned the president’s wrath for saying the deal resembles former President Barack Obama’s ridiculous 2015 agreement — where we literally dumped pallets of cash on a runway despite not making meaningful progress against their nuclear ambitions — while other hard-line Republicans like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, and Missouri Sen. Roger Wicker have gone on record saying that if the agreement doesn’t neuter Iran’s nuclear program, it’s a bad deal.
Although he didn't name names, Trump posted to Truth Social on Sunday afternoon to clap back at the naysayers, a group that includes just about every Democrat, and said they don’t even know what’s in the deal.
The president said his deal would not be anything like Obama’s, which Trump pulled out of in 2018 during his first term:
If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which gave Iran massive amounts of CASH, and a clear and open path to a Nuclear Weapon.
The new deal will look nothing like the old one, he claimed, and the critics can wait until they see the details before piling on. They don’t even know what’s in it, he charged:
Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it, or knows what it is. It isn’t even fully negotiated yet. So don’t listen to the losers, who are critical about something they know nothing about. Unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago, I don’t make bad deals! President DJT
Administration officials have said the deal is 95 percent negotiated, but there are a few details left to work out, and negotiating with Iran takes a long time, even over the smallest points, due to their difficulty communicating. If they use electronic communication devices, they run the risk of being tracked by Israel or U.S. intelligence agencies. If they meet up in person, they face the danger that they could end up like former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (ie, dead).
The stakes are huge: this deal and its bullet points could define Trump’s second term in office and will affect, one way or the other, his final two and a half or so years as commander-in-chief. That being said, until we know exactly what’s being proposed, critics are acting without a full understanding and would be better off waiting until details are released.
We should know relatively soon, a Trump official told Fox News on Sunday:
“We are not going to roll over. We are not there yet on a deal. We are not going to sign a deal today or tomorrow,” the official said before adding that President Donald Trump’s “instinct is to give them 5, 6, 7 days” to get an agreement over the line.