Trump Press Sec Seethes at Media as MAGA Trashes His Iran Deal Fiasco

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The fragile ceasefire with Iran is not silencing the mounting questions about Donald Trump’s threat to wipe out Iranian civilization. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lost her temper under hard questioning on the topic. One reporter sharply grilled her, causing her to dissemble and snap angrily. She then kept ranting, suggesting absurdly that it was “insulting” to be even asked about this matter. This comes as some Trump’s allies are sharply questioning his Iran deal: Laura Loomer lamented that “we didn’t really get anything.” Mark Levin fretted that Iran is “still surviving,” and said: “I don’t trust the enemy...what’s going to be different this time?” Senator Lindsey Graham made his skepticism of the deal very clear. Many other MAGA figures attacked his threat. We talked to Georgetown national security expert Rosa Brooks. She explains why Leavitt’s spin is so vile, why MAGA is right that the deal is a disaster for Trump (but for the wrong reasons), and why we should still fear worse horrors to come. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.6	Now that Donald Trump and Iran have agreed to a very fragile ceasefire, the administration is facing mounting questions about his threat to wipe out Iranian civilization. White
1:07.7	House press secretary Caroline Levitt lost her temper under tough questioning about this topic.
1:12.6	Pete Hegseth also tried to spin about this threat, and he too flopped miserably.
1:18.6	All this comes as even some of Trump's own allies are questioning whether he got a good deal out of this fiasco.
1:25.6	We think this all reveals deeper failures. Trump and Hegesath sought to
1:30.2	show that the threat of overwhelming military force can accomplish literally anything, yet that too
1:36.0	failed. We're talking about all this with a great commentator on National Security Affairs, Georgetown's
1:42.4	Rosa Brooks. Rosa, really nice to have you on.
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