Recent reporting from the Financial Times reveals it was President Trump, not the Iranian government, who was begging for a ceasefire.
FT reports that the Trump administration had been privately pushing for a ceasefire for weeks to alleviate the economic strain caused by Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, and depending on Pakistan for mediation. Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir was communicating with Iranian officials, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance, and Trump himself even after the president threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization on Tuesday.
According to the five people familiar with the diplomatic back channel, Trump had been asking for a ceasefire since as early as March 21, when he first threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants.
This contradicts virtually everything the Trump administration has claimed about Iran—that Trump’s constant bombings and threats of extinction caused a wounded, demoralized Iranian regime to limp to the negotiating table, desperate for a deal with the U.S.
My biggest issue with the 2024 election was that no one really called that out.
It would have been so easy to just constantly troll him on it.
His people would say that Trump was just trolling the main stream media and they were idiots for taking him seriously
The answer would be, oh so you’re trolling now too?
“Why should the people in the heartland treat the coastal elites with any respect? They act like they are better than us because they’ve got education!”