A five-year-old social media post by Donald Trump has returned to taunt the president as he announces a peace deal with Iran. The 2020 Twitter (X) post has sparked fresh mockery. Critics draw uncomfortable parallels between his past boasts and his current diplomacy.
Donald Trump’s Iran deal comes with an old resurfaced tweet
The Twitter post dates back to January 3, 2020, when Donald Trump was still an active member on the platform. “Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!” he wrote at the time. The declaration has returned to haunt him as he touts what he describes as a “very powerful document” aimed at ending the nearly four-month war.
Trump confirmed the agreement had been signed. “The deal’s all signed. And the strait is already partially opened,” he said at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, on Monday. The memorandum of understanding will see the Strait of Hormuz reopened in exchange for lifting a US naval blockade on Iran. A formal signing ceremony is scheduled for Friday in Geneva. Vice President JD Vance and the chief Iranian negotiator, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, are expected to attend.
While Trump insists the arrangement guarantees Iran will never acquire a nuclear weapon, specifics remain elusive. A Pakistani official told The Associated Press that the deal initiates 60 days of talks regarding Tehran’s nuclear program. This framework, critics say, echoes the very agreement Trump once dismantled.
Now, the resurfaced tweet has become ammunition for detractors who argue that Trump achieved little through military action that could not have been secured through negotiation from the start.
White House officials say full details will be published within 48 hours. But the G7 leaders gathering in France found themselves working to stabilize an agreement already showing strain. Israeli breaches of the ceasefire in Lebanon and Iranian claims about fee-charging rights in the critical waterway exposed the deal’s many loose ends.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu for Mandatory.
