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Trump Got Played by Netanyahu, Obama and Clinton Did Not

Hillary Clinton explained how often Netanyahu tried to play the US to go to war with Iran and Donald Trump was accused of 'catastrophic capitulation' to Iran.

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Jun 18, 2026
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It turns out, mob bosses are not good diplomats.

How is Trump’s MOU going? As expected. It has revealed, once again, just how weak Donald Trump is.

The 14-point Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is a failure, is chaos, is destruction, is ending up in a worse position than he started and then claiming victory after killing children for nothing.

On its face, the MOU stood up to Israel, but only after falling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s (Bibi) manipulations to instigate an illegal war with Israel against Iran in the first place.

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Brighter people have done better. Like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

In reality, Trump’s long-delayed seeming ‘No’ to Netanyahu is as real as any of Trump’s posturing, including that he getting the Strait of Hormuz opened without fees. In actuality, that is only guaranteed for a limited time period. And of course, the Strait was opened before Trump went to war with Iran because he fell for Netanyahu’s pressure.

Trump has dressed up his own failure in childish insults hurled at Netanyahu, as he often does. The rhetoric is designed to redirect blame by casting aspersions anywhere but upon himself.

And due to the way our press operates, it often works. So Trump got very helpful headlines for calling Netanyahu ‘fu**ing crazy’ and a good man who gets ‘too excited’. These headlines positioned him as in power over Netanyahu (rhetorically only) and thereby helped to distract the public from identifying Trump’s weak position, after even some MAGA diehards were accusing the US president of being Netanyahu’s puppet.

Now to further prove his “strength”, he has made a deal that angered Netanyahu and Israel.

This is the TACO Doctrine: Failure disguised by macho bullying to overcompensate.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are Smarter and Stronger Than Trump

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