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197. Vance Vs Hegseth: Who Takes the Fall for Trump’s Iran Deal?
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Trump's Hall of Mirrors and the Fox News Reaction
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Scaramucci's Lincoln-vs-Trump contrast crystallises the core dysfunction: a president whose inner circle reflects his self-image rather than challenging it. He reports watching Fox News all morning and finding hosts citing Wall Street Journal condemnations of the deal — not a trivial observation, since the right-wing media ecosystem rarely breaks from Trump this openly. His prediction: the deal won't even survive Trump's cable news habits, three days at most in the study off the Oval Office. The joke has real stakes. He also begins threading a historical argument about the Middle East — every negotiation for 110 years has publicly claimed to be about peace while actually being about oil, choke points, and basing rights.
Anthony Scaramucci argued that the Sykes-Picot Treaty, signed over 110 years ago, created tribal disputes whose consequences the Middle East still lives with today.
