U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during an event at The Villages Charter School at The Villages, Florida, U.S., May 1, 2026. REUTERS_Nathan Howard
CNN anchor Kasie Hunt appeared staggered by her own Thursday supercut that the network assembled of President Donald Trump’s countless claims of Iranian surrender.
Hunt played the massive clip after Trump’s latest claim on Wednesday that Iran’s leaders were yet again slavering for an end to the war that Trump began — despite the regime’s apparent acceptance of more U.S. air strikes and the closing of the pivotal Strait of Hormuz.
Trump claimed Wednesday that Iranian leaders had “called a little while ago,” and they wanted “to make a deal so badly.” But this boast was nothing new. And network videographers had plenty of material to choose from to prove it.
“We went back and took a look, of course, at what … Trump himself has said over the period of days. I want to play for you what that has sounded like over the course of the last several months,” said Hunt in a tone of warning.
And then it came.
“They want to make a deal.” — Trump, March 23
“… and they want to make a deal so badly.” — Trump, March 24
“They want to make a deal so badly.” — Trump, March 25
“I do see a deal in Iran.” — Trump, March 29
“It's looking very good that we're going to make a deal.” — Trump, April 16
“This process should go very quickly.” — Trump, April 17
“We're going to end that war very quickly.” — Trump, May 19
“We're in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal.” — Trump, June 9
“And they want to make the deal a lot more than I do.” — Trump, June 11
“We have our deal done with Iran, and it should be successful.” — Trump, June 16
“We're, uh, making an amazing deal with Iran.” — Trump, June 23
“They want to make a deal with us very badly.” — Trump, June 25
“They're dying to make a deal. They're giving us a lot.” — Trump, June 26
“They want to make a deal so badly.” — Trump, July 8
With a short laugh, Hunt then turned to National Review Online founder and conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg.
“Uh, Jonah Goldberg, on that note. I mean, what kind of deal has the U.S. gotten out of this?”
“There's no deal,” Goldberg said flatly. “Even the MOU wasn't a deal. It was a deal to talk about coming up with a deal that was going to last 60 days, that was never going to be extended.”
Trump, meanwhile is catching mounting rage from American voters, legislators and the international community over the war he started, which is driving up global and U.S. energy prices. And as gas prices again creep up due to Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz, Trump and the Republican Party’s chances of surviving the November mid-terms appears increasingly dicey.