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Why the Media Called Trump a Warmonger... Then an Appeaser

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Why the Media Called Trump a Warmonger... Then an Appeaser
President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a visit to the Mack Trucks manufacturing facility in Macungie, Pa., on June 23, 2026. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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This is a lightly edited transcript of a June 22 segment of the Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words podcast.

The so-called Iranian memorandum of understanding involving a 60-day period of negotiations that may or may not lead to an armistice was published just recently, and it’s gotten a storm of criticism.

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Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
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