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CNN Rolls Supercuts of Trump’s Humiliating Surrender to Iran

The Daily Beast

June 18, 2026

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CNN Rolls Supercuts of Trump’s Humiliating Surrender to Iran

Jonathan Ernst/ReutersDonald Trump’s most loathed network has laid bare just how the president has capitulated on key goals of his war with Iran in a desperate bid to bring the conflict to a swift conclusion. The president has signed a 14-point agreement with Iran to halt the fighting for two months. His opponents have blasted the arrangement for containing significant concessions to the regime while deferring U.S. demands to later negotiations. CNN, which Trump has long slammed as a “fake news” outlet for its coverage of his administration, rolled not one but two supercuts of the president and his Cabinet members commenting on crucial aspects of that deal, both before and after it was struck.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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