How Trump’s Made-for-TV Peace Deal Played Out
10th October 2025
It was the sort of dramatic moment on which Donald Trump thrives.
The US president was presiding over a meeting about Antifa violence in Left-wing cities, cameras trained on his every move, when Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, passed him a note.
“I was just given a note by the secretary of state,” announced the president, hushing his audience, “saying that we’re very close to a deal in the Middle East, and they’re going to need me pretty quickly”.