‘SO BAD!’: MAGA sycophants OPENLY REVOLT against Trump for caving to Iran

Hi, everyone.It's 4 o 'clock in the east.Well, Donald Trump has a seemingly limitless ability to lie to the American people.His latest and possibly most egregious lie is the attempt to spin his capitulation to Iran as some sort of personal victory and masterclass in negotiating.Earlier today at a news conference during the G7 summit, Donald Trump was asked about the pending deal to end his war with Iran, including that it would contain $300 billion billion with a B for rebuilding Iran.Here's how he responded.

Watch.We just got that memorandum of understanding today, so we'll double check that.Quote, the United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive mutually agreed plan with at least $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran.Wow.So let's check the tape on what Trump had to say about another provision of his deal.No immediate sanctions relief.

That's what he said.But again, here's the memorandum of understanding text.Quote, the United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.So what about Trump's demand that Iran should never have a nuclear weapon?Here's what Donald Trump said about that.

The Obama deal was one of the dumbest deals I've ever seen.It was a road to a nuclear weapon.My deal is a wall to a nuclear.You're not going to have it.It's a wall to a nuclear weapon.

A wall?What kind of wall?Well, here's what it looks like.memorandum of understanding says about it.Quote, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of the stockpile enriched material pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon pending the final deal.The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree to maintain the status quo.

The Islamic Republic of Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the United States of America will not impose any new sanctions and will not deploy additional forces in the region.Nothing about a wall.And finally, the provision that Donald Trump slammed and attacked and smeared former President Barack Obama over back in 2015, unfreezing Iranian assets.Here's how Trump is handling those now.Quote, the United States of America undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran.So despite Donald Trump's denials, the reality of the MOU is so bad and so unpalatable, so unspinable, that even Trump's own sycophantic Republican Party is in open revolt.

As one headline from Fox News puts it, quote, Republicans, media, rip Trump's secret Iran deal with the harshest critics calling it a surrender.His former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, reacting to Wall Street Journal reporting that the deal would allow Iran to immediately begin selling its oil, posted on social media this, quote, if this is true, Iran wins.There should be zero sanctions relief on day one.Trump's own former vice president, Mike Pence, remember him?He warned this last night.Watch.

So I mean, pretty bluntly, it sounds like you thinkfrom what we know so far, this is a mistake by the Trump administration.

Well, it's much bigger than a mistake.My concern is what appears to be leaking out, these immediate concessions, particularly sanctions waivers right out of the gate, that would essentially be a lifeline to the Iranian regime.

It is worse than a mistake, so says Mike Pence.And if all that is not bad enough, if all that doesn't tell you how bad this is, here's the front page of the Trump -friendly New York Post.Quote, love bomb.Prez says Islamic regime, quote, not radical.His deal showers mullahs with cash and no sanctions.Even Trump's own political party and media apparatus calling BS on his attempt to frame his own capitulation as a deal.

is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends.Senior national security reporter David Rhoad is here.Also joining us, Paul Rykoff.He is the host of the Independent Americans podcast and the founder and CEO of Independent Veterans of America.David Rhoad, you first.What were they thinking, I guess, is what I really want to know.

I don't know.The bombing really didn't do anything.Dropping a billion dollars didn't achieve much, so why should we keep doing that?The really valuable thing was the naval blockade we created.And then he said, in terms of missiles, again, at the beginning of the war, Iran should not have any missiles.Its missile industry should be raised from the ground.

And today, he's like, well, you know, Saudi Arabia has missiles, and it would be unfair for Iran to not have missiles.So it was this incredible change of tone from the president.And I think I got a meme from a former CIA officer about the broader message here to other rivals and threats to our country that, you know, At this point, Iceland, according to the meme, is like eager to get into a war with Trump, hoping it can get the same deal that Iran got.

I mean, it's so bad.It's the punchline of jokes being told by The New York Post.I mean, Paul Rykoff, I don't understand.how we're in a place where this train just sort of rumbles along, obviously off the tracks, obviously with no braking system, obviously with no regard for the 13 men and women of the military who paid with their lives, to leave the United States of America in a weaker position where we are the butt of jokes.Countries want to go to war with us.

Yeah, we're all along for the ride on Trump's crazy train of destruction and mayhem.And this is a loser's agreement.This is a surrender.This is a concession.This is awful.group

and the American people, especially, to hold him accountable.And keep in mind, he wants to go further.He wants to go hit Cuba.So let's keep this in mind as he starts to ramp up for Cuba, that maybe we should have a War Powers Act before he strikes Cuba, instead of afterward, like we did in Iran and Venezuela.

David Rhoad, two -part question.One, what, if any, is the prospect for that?And two, let me just add the new dynamic here, which is that the most blistering attacks are coming from the right in American politics.This is a tweet by a right -wing Washington Post columnist.Quote, $300 billion to Iran under any circumstances is a disaster, like offering the Marshall Plan to rebuild Germany while the Nazis were still in power.So we have Mark Deason making that statement.

the Nazi comparison and telling the Nazi joke about Trump today.

Yeah, it's extraordinary.And the whole question, though, is there are Republicans that are pushing back against this.But Senator Lindsey Graham, and maybe I missed another tweet from him, sort of said he talked today with Steve Whitkoff, the president's envoy, and he thinks that signing the MOU is like a step in the right direction.And he said he hopes this can all lead to a comprehensive agreement.So I guess I'm skeptical of Republicans really going to push back on this.Tom Tillis did push back much more aggressively.

But I just I just want to emphasize, this isn't like we're comparing the Trump nuclear deal with Iran to the Obama nuclear deal.There is no Trump nuclear deal with Iran.There is nothing in this agreement that actually decides anything or restricts or changes Iran's nuclear program.It's literally, the language you were reading, the status quo continues with Iran's nuclear program.So I think as time goes by, there'll be more opposition.And then lastly, there's going to be opposition from Israel.

I don't know how an Israeli can listen to him joke about, or even a Saudi, frankly, or an Emirati, you know, that it's no big deal if Iran has these missiles when, you know, they can menace the whole region with them.

I'm going to bring into our coverage Ian Bremmer.Ian Bremmer is the founder and president of the Eurasia Group, which is a global political risk research and consulting firm and someone we turn to on momentous days like this.Your reaction?

Yeah, it is probably the single biggest foreign policy failure of the Trump administration.Nothing else is even close.He has not been able to achieve any of his war aims.What we saw today was basically undoing some of the damage that was done by the war.So we no longer have active hostilities between the U .S.

and Iran.That's good.We're going to have the strait reopened that was open before the war.It's been closed because of the war.That's good.And everyone is happy to see it.

By the way, there's also in the first paragraph of this agreement, it says that there's no more war in Lebanon, but the Israelis are not a signatory.Neither is Hezbollah.So the United States doesn't actually have jurisdiction or control over the conflict to make that commitment.So in some ways, it's kind of a stillborn deal.to begin with.And I can understand why Trump didn't want the 14 points to be made public.

Frankly, it'd be better for him if we still didn't have them.Because now that you're reading through all of it, it's very hard to deny.And the outcomes are, I mean, it's better than continuing the war.So, I mean, Trump did finally take the off -ramp.He should have taken the off -ramp a month or two months ago.The same deal would have been offered to him.

The Iranians, clearly understood that the United States had no stomach for continuing this fight.And that's, by the way, that's why there's very little reason to believe that.they will go ahead for a final agreement that would end up at the level of the JCPOA, the Obama nuclear deal, because if you're Iran and you know the Americans have no fist in their glove ongoing, you're just going to cut deals with the Gulf states and others to charge for access to the strait going forward.That's the most likely outcome here.