President Donald Trump talking to reporter aboard Air Force One on December 9, 2025 (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley/Flickr)
U.S. President Donald Trump's ceasefire deal with Iran is drawing vehement criticism not only from Democrats and Never Trump conservatives, but also, from some of his supporters. Danny Zaken, an Israel-based journalist for Israel Hayom — which is owned by billionaire GOP donor Miriam Adelson — has been a strong supporter of Trump's Israel policy. But in a blistering op-ed for Hayom, he attacks the deal as a disaster for Israel, the United States and the Middle East in general.
"From where I sit, near Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the people of Israel since the days of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, I say to you: You made a colossal mistake," Zaken writes. "You failed by signing a surrender agreement with a murderous and cruel terror regime. You severely harmed American interests and the democratic and human values of the enlightened world, and you turned over the hourglass toward the next war, which your successors will have to deal with in the years to come. In doing so, you sealed the fate of many thousands of people: civilians, women, children and the elderly, whom the regime in Iran will torture and murder, just as it murdered more than 40,000 of them at the beginning of the year; citizens of neighboring countries whom Iran and its terrorist proxies will murder; fighters who will be killed in the war against Iran and the terrorism it operates. And yes, many Americans too, just as Iran and its emissaries have murdered throughout the years of the mullahs' regime."
Hayom denounces Trump's Iran deal as a "violation of every promise you made."
"You could have been the greatest president of all in this era, alongside Woodrow Wilson, who won World War I and created the foundation for the international framework of the new world; alongside Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who defeated the Nazis and Japan; and behind George Washington and Abraham Lincoln," Hayom argues. "Then, you would have deserved not only the Nobel Prize you covet, but eternal recognition and respect from everyone in the world who mocked you, and there are many such people. You could have been that president, as you claim to be, but you failed. You missed the opportunity."
Hayom adds, "Instead, unless you change course against the advice of your vice president and envoy, you will be remembered forever as the president who brought about the humiliation of great America and gravely damaged its strategic power and its leading status in the world."