Fox montage – A Fox News supercut, aired Wednesday, strings together Donald Trump’s repeated claims that a deal to end the Iran war he launched on Feb. 28 was “just days away”—and shows none of those timelines ever arriving, even after nine weeks of messaging about an “elus
On Wednesday, Fox News aired a montage that did something most political claims usually avoid: it stitched together a sequence of “right around the corner” Iran-deal predictions and let viewers sit with the gap between promise and reality.
The supercut zeroed in on Donald Trump’s repeated assertion that a deal to end the Iran war he launched on Feb. 28 was “just days away.” Fox anchor John Roberts pointed to a pattern he described as relentless—Trump insisting for nine weeks that the U.S. had Iran “on the ropes,” while repeatedly selling an impending agreement as “this elusive deal.”.
The montage begins with Trump speaking on March 31, saying, “Two or three weeks, we leave.” From there, it carries his claims through April and May, showing him saying the deal could happen “any day.” The clips also capture Trump’s insistence that Iran was “dying” to make one.
In the June material, the promises get even tighter. Trump is shown claiming the war is in its “final throes” and would be over “in two or three days.”
Roberts then put a blunt timeline on it, summing up what the montage is meant to show: “That’s nine weeks of, ‘We’re close to a deal.’ At some point you’ve got to acknowledge it’s not happening.”
Brit Hume, Fox News chief political analyst, offered a different kind of explanation—less about the substance of the deal and more about the messaging. He suggested Trump may be trying to deliver different signals to different audiences at the same time.
“He’s dealing with the Iranians and telling the American public and consumers and the owners of stocks that we’re close to a deal in the hope perhaps that will calm the petroleum markets,” Hume theorized.
“At the same time, of course, he says we’re ready to attack at any time, and they dare not fool with us,” he added. “So, I think it’s a bit of a mystery here as to exactly where we are.”
The emotional sting of the supercut isn’t just that Trump has used similar phrasing over months. It’s that the language keeps compressing the timeline—leaving. “any day. ” “dying” to agree. “final throes. ” and finally the claim that the war would end “in two or three days”—while the moment he predicted never arrives.
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So he said “two or three days” and it didn’t happen… kinda crazy how they just keep moving the goalposts.
I don’t even get why Fox is doing this if they’re “pro” him. Like wouldn’t you want to spin it better?? Feels like they’re admitting it’s all smoke.
Brit Hume said it’s signals to different audiences, which sounds like a fancy way of saying “they lied but for a reason.” Also isn’t the whole point of ending war, not calming markets or whatever? unless the stock people are the real priority.
“Deal” never arrives and everyone’s shocked… but they always said media exaggerates timelines. Like maybe the deal was quietly happening and the montage is only showing quotes out of order or whatever. I swear politics is just people saying stuff until it becomes true later.