We agreed to rebuild Iran for three hundred billion dollars, opened the Gulf, and lifted every sanction, and the smart set is calling it a loss. Pull up a chair.
It is 4:30 in the morning and I am at my desk with the lamp on and Patton at my feet, and I am telling you the Trump Iran deal is the strongest thing this country has done in forty years. A liberal historian named Heather Cox Richardson wrote the whole thing up overnight, point by point, like she was building a case against it. She built it, all right. She just cannot read her own evidence.
Here is what a soft country does. It negotiates for years. We did it in sixty days. It waits for a ceremony. This president signed the thing himself at Versailles, the same palace where they made the Germans sign in 1918, because a real man picks the room with the best history. Strength is not loud. Strength is fourteen paragraphs and a pen.
What the Trump Iran Deal Actually Says
I read all fourteen points, and the New York Times breakdown too, where their own reporters admit Tehran walks off with the immediate win. We agreed to help rebuild Iran for at least three hundred billion dollars. Sit with that. You do not rebuild a man you are scared of. You rebuild a man you beat, so he has something nice to lose next time.
Same with the Strait of Hormuz. We let them run the tollbooth, free for sixty days, then they charge what they like. The couch generals call that handing away a chokepoint. I call it giving a whipped enemy a little job to keep him busy. We lifted the sanctions, because you do not sanction a man you respect. And Iran reaffirmed it will never build a nuke, and reaffirmed is the whole ballgame, because a man only reaffirms a thing when he remembers who is in charge.
And before the swamp starts in: the three hundred billion and the oil waivers have nothing to do with the president’s hotels and towers in the Gulf. Nothing. The usual outfits are already filing their reports, and questioning a commander in chief’s bank account during a war sits one inch from sedition. A businessman who knows the neighborhood is an asset. We call that experience.
The Couch Generals Don’t Understand Strength
Now the experts are losing their minds. A Republican senator who got himself primaried says Reagan is rolling in his grave. The New York Post says America got nothing. Tehran is on television calling it a total victory, which is what a beaten man says into the cameras to save face. Thirteen American service members did not come home, and four hundred more were wounded, and the second somebody waves our fallen around to win a point about a fee schedule, I am done.
He even lined up his vice president to take the fall if it went sideways, then signed it himself when it did not. The smart set thinks that is chaos. I have run enough operations from this desk to know it is command. Everything in the Trump Iran deal points one direction, and it is not down. This is a White House that knows how to recognize a victory when it sees one.
So I will keep my screens on and let the anchors clutch their pearls. I have read every word of this agreement, more than the senators who funded the war ever did. The smart set wants you to believe that wiping out the sanctions, opening the Gulf, and rebuilding the country we just bombed adds up to a defeat. Doesn’t make much sense, does it?
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