Someone must have informed Donald Trump in the past couple of weeks that achieving peace in the Middle East will be a tad more difficult than he originally thought. Who could have known?
"I've heard it's one of the toughest deals of all," Trump declared Monday, in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “but I have a feeling that we're going the get there eventually,” he added. It was an apparent show of the great distance Trump has traveled on the learning curve as pr*sident since he opined on Middle East peace earlier this month:
“It is something that I think is frankly, maybe, not as difficult as people have thought over the years.”
Growth, my friends, growth. (Next up he’ll learn Trumpcare isn’t as “tremendous” as he thought.)
Trump’s optimism stems from his belief that they “will have very productive discussions” with a lot of other world leaders (and yes, Trump was just that vague, thus the lack of detail in transcribing his remarks).
There's a lot of love out there, and people from all nations, even nations that you would be surprised to hear, they want to stop the killing.
Netanyahu, for his part, wasn’t feeling quite as much love and decided to take several potshots at Trump’s predecessor, President Obama.
Praising Trump for his tougher stance on Iran and taking “bold” action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Netanyahu said:
For the first time in many years, and Mr. President, for the first time in my lifetime, I see a real hope for change.
Because Obama = fake hope and change compared to Trump. If only Obama had fumbled sensitive Israeli intelligence to Israel’s sworn enemy Russia, maybe he would have been treated with more deference.
Watch below as Netanyahu assures reporters that the “intelligence cooperation is terrific” between Israel and the U.S., then marvels as Trump tells reporters that he never mentioned “Israel” while meeting with Russian operatives in the Oval Office.