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President Trump Reveals What He Really Thinks Made His Mideast Peace Deal Possible
by Joshua C. 11 hours ago
Following the momentous peace agreement between Israel and Hamas, President Trump weighed in on the apparent magic behind it all.
He’s known as a force to be reckoned with once he decides to make a deal.
But the incredible way all the dominoes fell together in just the right way and just the right time seemed surprising even to him.
Check out this moment when President Trump is asked what it all means to him, as he seems to searchsearch for words:
@RealDonaldTrump reveals to @treyYingst how he got the peace deal across the finish line
“It really started when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran.” pic.twitter.com/dXiDV2D58G
— The Will Cain Show (@WillCainShow) October 13, 2025
The incredibly historic shift from all-out warfare to something far less kinetic, at the very least, happened in a matter of weeks.
But when he was asked a more direct question about what really set the stage for his ability to arrange a peace plan, he didn’t hesitate or need to go searching for an answer.
He knew instantly what he thought had made the peace possible.
Check out this clip from Israeli News Channel 4, with the President explaining very specifically what led to the agreement – even a few days before the deal was actually signed on Monday:
Trump: The attack on Iran was very important, because let's say that didn't happen, they'd likely have nuclear weapons by now. So even if we had signed the deal there'd be a big dark cloud over it. Now even Iran wants to work on peace, says it supports the Gaza deal. pic.twitter.com/RIYqIOJwyr
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 9, 2025
Here’s the full screen version of that video for convenience:
Trump: The attack on Iran was very important, because let’s say that didn’t happen, they’d likely have nuclear weapons by now. So even if we had signed the deal there’d be a big dark cloud over it. Now even Iran wants to work on peace, says it supports the Gaza deal. pic.twitter.com/RIYqIOJwyr
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 9, 2025
In a longer conversation President Trump conveyed on Monday even more specifically that in his mind…
The B2 Stealth Bomber strikes on Iran’s nuclear program ultimately created the context for the peace treaty in the Mideast, and the return of the hostages — according to President Trump.
In a conversation with the top foreign correspondent at Fox News, President Trump told Trey Yingst after the deal was signed in Jerusalem that even his own personal impact wouldn’t have been enough, by itself, to bring about the peace.
It took the bold action of those powerful strikes against Iran’s nukes to create the dynamic where all the players were ready to come to the table, and do their part to make things work.
He told Trey that once the Iranian threat was taken care of, everyone in the neighborhood ‘wanted this to happen’, as covered in this report from Fox News:
President Donald Trump told Fox News in an exclusive interview Monday that he credits the U.S. strikes on key Iranian nuclear sites for making the Israel-Hamas peace deal possible.
“I think it really started when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran,” Trump said, referring to the June strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. “When you look at what they had, you couldn’t have made this deal with someone sitting over there with a nuclear weapon over your head.”
Trump said that other countries around the Middle East were “fantastic” in helping the U.S. broker the peace deal, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Egypt.
“That’s the amazing thing,” Trump said. “Everybody came together at this point. If you go back six months or seven months, you would have said a thing like this was impossible.”
Trump added that even with his impact as the U.S. president, the deal wouldn’t have happened if the dozens of countries that make up the Middle East did not want it to.
“They all wanted this to happen,” Trump said, “and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.”
Yingst said Trump emphasized that the Gaza deal is only the beginning of what he hopes will become a wider movement toward peace across the Middle East.
Trump also told Yingst that he believes Iran is going to be a country that “wants to get back into the world of good economies.” Trump added that Iran has shown signs of being open to diplomacy and that he has since spoken to Iran’s leadership, though he declined to specify which leader.
“The last thing they’re going to do is get into the nuclear world again because look what it’s gotten them, and I would just have to do it again,” the president said of Iran and the strikes.
The President’s Special Envoy working against antisemitism, Ellie Cohanim, shared a screen shot from a video of the President talking from Egypt on Monday.
She quoted the President in her post, again, as crediting his decisive strikes against Iran as the ultimate table setting which led to this week’s peace overtures:
President @RealDonaldTrump NOW: This peace deal could not have happened without the US strike on Iranian Nuclear Program. pic.twitter.com/jj97UDE6rM
— Ellie Cohanim (@EllieCohanim) October 13, 2025
I don’t know if the President is right…
But he’s the one making peace where everyone else has tried, and failed.
Obviously he understand the situation — no one stumbles into one of the most historic peace agreements in history without some intentionality behind it.
Now, just 2 days later, the President is pushing for phase 2 of the treaty to go into effect — the summary disarmament of Hamas.
That seems to be the one final hurdle that could prove a sticking point when it comes to actually executing on the agreement.
But even as I write, two more caskets presumably holding the remains of two more hostages are being reported in route to Israeli hands, via the Red Cross.
That’s something that could only have been dreamed up in a fantasy just a short time ago, much less LIVING hostages returned to their families!
Those next two additional remains of hostages who didn’t survive the ordeal should be back in Israeli custody shortly, thanks to President Trump.
That’s according to coverage from ABC News:
After vowing to disarm Hamas “quickly and perhaps violently,” President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the U.S. military will not need to get involved.
“We won’t need the U.S. military,” Trump said. “We won’t need it.”
Disarmament of the militant group is a key factor in Trump’s Gaza peace proposal but was not addressed in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Trump repeated on Wednesday, “We want the weapons to be given up, sacrificed and they’ve agreed to do it. Now they have to do it. And if they don’t do it, we’ll do it.”
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israel Defense Forces have been instructed to prepare a plan to resume fighting against Hamas if necessary.
Katz said in a statement Wednesday that he has instructed the IDF to “prepare a plan for the comprehensive defeat of Hamas in Gaza if it refuses to implement President Trump’s plan and it becomes necessary to renew the fighting.”
“If Hamas refuses to implement the agreement, Israel, in coordination with the U.S., will return to fighting and work to completely defeat Hamas, change the reality in Gaza, and achieve all the goals of the war,” the statement continued.
Two coffins have been transferred to the Red Cross and are on their way to the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Security Agency members in Gaza, the IDF said.
The IDF and ISA said Hamas is required to uphold the agreement and take the necessary steps to return all the hostages.
Months ago a split developed among President Trump’s supporters, threatening to rip the entire MAGA movement apart.
The question revolved around that very issue which President Trump now credits as the defining action that made this week’s peace treaty doable.
Again, I don’t know if the President is right. Only hindsight and the march of history can prove out that truth.
But here we are, months later…
With the President’s support still intact, and he has now ended a total of NINE wars in a matter of just a few months if my count is correct.
Including ushering in renewed hope for peace in the Mideast where before there was nothing but the expectancy of certain doom ready to engulf the entire world in a kinetic 3rd World War.
I, for one, don’t expect true peace to rest fully across the Mideast — or the world, for that matter — until after the literal and physical return of Jesus Christ when he once again steps foot back on the Mount of Olives…
Coming back just as he left, and as promised in Scripture.
But I also can’t help but recognize the incredible ‘magic’ that seems to be ever-more pervasive on the world scene regarding ANYTHING that President Trump gets involved in.
I don’t presume to know how all of this fits together, exactly. But I somehow know it does.
And there’s no denying that ‘magic’ — that divine blessing of grace — that seems to pour from heaven into everything President Trump sets his mind on for good in the world, right now.
Be it the President’s strike on Iran, sheer luck, or the gracious providence of God interfering in the affairs of men…
I’ll take it as a win, whichever it is.
And if President Trump wants to credit his strikes on Iran as the primary driving force that ultimately ushered in a new era of peace in the Mideast…
Who am I to say he doesn’t know what he’s talking about?
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From WLT Report
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https://wltreport.com/2025/10/15/pre...m_campaign=PTN
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