Tommy Vietor

Yeah, he's good.

He's that good.

So after that appearance, Levitt, Trump flew to Egypt.

There was a big summit there on the Middle East peace featuring a bunch of world leaders minus the leadership of Israel and Hamas.

Let's pause here.

How are you feeling about all this?

Yeah, it's unequivocally a good day.

I'm glad the hostages are home.

I'm glad that there's a ceasefire.

I hope it all holds like period.

Full stop.

Right.

I think the question a lot of listeners are asking is like, how much credit do we think Trump deserves or doesn't?

I would argue like people may not like to hear this, but I think he deserves a lot of credit for getting this deal done because Trump clearly.

put real pressure on Netanyahu to say yes to the deal, while at the same time, the Egyptians, the Qataris, and the Turks pressured Hamas to say yes and make some real concessions that I think we can get into in a minute.

But the broader backstory, if listeners remember, Trump laid out this 20-point peace deal.

He let Netanyahu kind of massage and shape the deal before it was public.

to make it more advantageous to the Israeli side.

But ultimately, what Trump did that I think was really important in that moment was he forced Netanyahu to say yes.

And I think that happened in part because Trump has a lot of leverage because he's a popular Republican leader and Netanyahu needs him, but also because the Israelis had just fired a bunch of airstrikes into Doha, the capital of Qatar, which pissed off a lot of people and Netanyahu didn't want to piss them off again.