Trump’s mistake? The fury on the right has reached a boiling point

Just two days after the details of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran were revealed, it seems that the front of political and media opposition against President Donald Trump is reaching a boiling point – precisely from the conservative media outlets that were once his closest allies.

In an unusual step that illustrates the magnitude of the shock on the American right, the “New York Post” newspaper – a respected conservative newspaper that the president often praises and likes – published a particularly aggressive and mocking printed cover this morning (Tuesday). Under the huge headline “EASY MULLAH” (“easy money for the mullahs” – a pun on the phrase Easy Money), the cover of the newspaper shows an Iranian cleric smiling from ear to ear holding a wad of American dollar bills, against a background of oil fields and pumps.

The secondary title of the cover has a poignant sentence: “Iran receives a $10 billion injection of energy from the US into the oil account – even before signing a full nuclear agreement.”

This is a dramatic step up in the newspaper’s line, after only a few days earlier, the editors of the “Post” published a poignant article stating that this was an agreement “worse than Obama’s”, and that Trump “not only moved the goal line, he changed the sport, the field and the rules – simply to declare victory”.

The front page of today’s newspaper details the outrageous details that are shaking Capitol Hill: as part of the negotiations, the United States is removing all sanctions on Iranian oil for the next 60 days. This is a huge lateral gain that will give the Islamic Republic a huge sum of 10 billion dollars for the restoration of the regime.

The newspaper emphasizes that while the vice president, J.D. Vance, tries to reassure and claims that Iran has agreed to the return of the international nuclear inspectors, in practice no full agreement has yet been signed – but the money is already starting to flow.

This scathing criticism, which comes at the same time as an unprecedented wave of bipartisan opposition in Congress, has provoked the president’s uncontrollable fury. In a tweet that he published on the Truth Social network immediately after his return from the G7 summit, Trump attacked his critics head-on and wrote:

“These fools, who think I wasn’t tough enough on Iran, while the stock market just hit an all-time high and oil prices are plummeting, are either bigots, or bad people, or just plain stupid.”

However, despite the attempts to suppress the criticism, the concerned voices in Washington, who are now getting a boost from the cover of the “New York Post”, are only getting more extreme.

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana led the hawkish tone when he claimed that “Ronald Reagan is turning over in his grave” in the face of the agreement. Cassidy emphasized that Iran’s nuclear ambitions have not been curbed, and that the regime has learned that threats to the Strait of Hormuz bring it achievements. “Before the war, the Strait was open, Iran was crushed under sanctions, and 13 of our soldiers were alive,” Cassidy attacked, “Now Iran gets to build a completely new infrastructure. This is the worst foreign policy failure in decades.”

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas joined the attack against the fund that is expected to pour billions into Iran, calling the move a sort of “Marshall Plan for Iran”: “Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is a particularly bad idea. If we give billions to Iran, this money will be used to murder Americans.”

Senator Tom Cotton (Arkansas), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, warned in an interview with Fox News that the removal of oil sanctions would flow between 150 and 200 million dollars to the regime every day: “That’s 4.5 to 6 billion dollars every month. We know that this revolutionary terrorist regime will not spend the money on kindergartens or hospitals, but to rebuild drone and missile depots and finance Hamas and Hezbollah.”

The conservative and media criticism is completely aligned with votes in the Democratic Party. Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized the president’s negotiating skills: “Iran seems to have won almost every one of the 14 clauses that have been published.

“Trump has done a very poor job in negotiations. The Strait of Hormuz is now under greater Iranian control than before. This will be remembered as one of the greatest American disasters,” Schumer added.

Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal sharpened the tone and called it a “shameful agreement that looks like an unconditional surrender of the US”. Blumenthal even sent a clear warning to the administration: “Anyone who tries to defend this agreement in Congress will need a fireproof protective suit, because they will encounter bipartisan condemnation from wall to wall.”