{"id":26035,"date":"2026-06-18T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=26035"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:05:09","slug":"trumps-war-doddering-donny-surrenders-at-versailles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/18\/trumps-war-doddering-donny-surrenders-at-versailles\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s War: Doddering Donny Surrenders at Versailles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elderly golfer has signed what can be described as the outline of a framework for principles leading to negotiation of a somewhat possible armistice or maybe something better \u2013 while making massive concessions. So much winning? Not.<\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/18\/us-iran-sign-initial-deal-end-war-open-strait-hormuz\/\">U.S. and Iran sign initial deal to end war and open Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/18\/world\/middleeast\/iran-deal-oil-strait-of-hormuz-nuclear.html\">Iran Gets Major Economic Lifeline for Minimal Concessions in Initial Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/location-of-trump-signing-memo_n_6a33a5d0e4b057a50ceaf69b?origin=home-latest-news-unit\">Critics Flag The Stunning Historical Irony Of Where Donald Trump Signed The Iran Memorandum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/18\/world\/middleeast\/israel-iran-deal-reaction-netanyahu.html\">Israel, Stunned by Trump\u2019s Iran Deal, Sees It as a \u2018Catastrophic Capitulation\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semafor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/06\/18\/2026\/countries-reckon-with-aftermath-of-iran-war\">Countries reckon with aftermath of Iran war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/06\/18\/trump-cant-sell-his-lies-even-in-versailles\/\">Trump can\u2019t sell his lies, even in Versailles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-lashes-out-at-fools-criticizing-his-iran-deal-either-jealous-bad-people-or-stupid\/\">Trump Lashes Out at \u2018Fools\u2019 Criticizing His Iran Deal: \u2018Either Jealous, Bad People, or Stupid\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LA Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/Rubio lets Vance take the fall as Iran deal questions mount\">Rubio lets Vance take the fall as Iran deal questions mount<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Examiner: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4613860\/hegseth-us-military-restart-operations-iran-if-needed\/\">Hegseth claims military in position to restart operations against Iran \u2018if we need to\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/17\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-deal-republicans-criticism.html\">Trump\u2019s Deal With Iran Opens New Rifts in G.O.P.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much winning? Not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}