Miranda Devine: Trump is showing the world, G7 leaders whos the boss and deserves respect for his deal-making
“I’m the boss,” President Trump joked when he arrived a bit late to a meeting with G7 leaders in France Wednesday.He is.That’s what his detractors forget.
America is “the boss” again, the colossus.Iran doesn’t bully us.Israel doesn’t instruct us.
Europe can sneer at Donald Trump all it likes, but it’s a supplicant.China respects us.
Canada bows.Trump understands power, and it rests easy on his shoulders.He joked about it at the G7 in his relaxed American fashion, and European leaders now get it.They laughed along, but they understood.By the time he had emerged from a glittering dinner at Versailles to fly home, he had signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran that has the great and the good worked up into a symphony of hysterical catastrophizing.While they hyperventilate, Trump casually shrugs and says it’s just a framework for negotiations toward a deal, and if it doesn’t work, he’ll just bomb Iran.“If I don’t like it, if they don’t behave, we’ll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head, OK?” he told the media on the sidelines of the G7.What the naysayers don’t understand is that the 14-point memorandum Trump signed is not a deal.It’s a political document setting out terms agreed by both sides for negotiating a final deal that would result in Iran agreeing never to produce or procure nuclear weapons, with strict oversight.In the meantime, the MOU gets the Strait of Hormuz open and gas prices down before the midterms, easing domestic political constraints on Trump.The period of negotiation toward the hoped-for final deal is nominally 60 days, but senior administration officials agree it could take longer — in other words, until after the midterms.Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on ‘Pod Force One.’ Subscribe here!In return, all the US agrees to in the short term is to ...