{"id":2616366,"date":"2026-06-19T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-writers-are-mad-about-the-war-ending-that-means-trump-is-on-the-right-track\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:50:01","slug":"new-york-times-writers-are-mad-about-the-war-ending-that-means-trump-is-on-the-right-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-writers-are-mad-about-the-war-ending-that-means-trump-is-on-the-right-track\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Writers&#8217; Anger Over Iran Deal Means Trump Is On Right Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-writers-are-mad-about-the-war-ending-that-means-trump-is-on-the-right-track%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2616366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Trump is actively working to end the Iran war initiated on Israel\u2019s behalf, which has upset many, including New York Times columnists Bret Stephens and Thomas Friedman. These commentators, who favor strong support for Israel and seem opposed to Trump\u2019s approach, criticize his decisions-Friedman claims Trump \u201csold out\u201d America\u2019s allies to prioritize U.S. swing states and personal gain, while Stephens accuses him of abandoning the war effort due to fears of economic repercussions. Both critics fail to acknowledge the benefit of reducing American casualties and the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-funds-ukraine-forever-war-while-our-own-soldiers-barracks-rot\/\" title=\"Washington continues to finance Ukraine&#039;s ongoing ... while neglecting the deteriorating conditions of our own soldiers&#039; barracks.\">prioritizing national interests<\/a> over foreign alliances.The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-article-suggests-republicans-are-worse-than-nazis\/\" title=\"MSNBC Article Suggests Republicans Are Worse Than Nazis\">article suggests<\/a> that their opposition stems from a pro-Israel,\u201cIsrael First\u201d outlook that conflicts with Trump\u2019s campaign promises of prioritizing America\u2019s own interests. the piece argues that ending the war aligns with American priorities and critiques these critics for their biased viewpoint.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/55343584508\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Torok\/White House\/Flickr<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/19\/new-york-times-writers-are-mad-about-the-war-ending-that-means-trump-is-on-the-right-track\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=New York Times Writers Are Mad About The War Ending. 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That Means Trump Is On The Right Track&#038;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/19\/new-york-times-writers-are-mad-about-the-war-ending-that-means-trump-is-on-the-right-track\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &#038; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>President Trump seems to be trying in earnest to end the Iran war that we embarked upon <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/18\/vance-issues-reality-check-to-israel-america-is-your-only-ally-start-acting-like-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Israel\u2019s behalf<\/a>, and it\u2019s upsetting all the right people. If New York Times columnists Bret Stephens and Thomas Friedman are disappointed, the president is doing something right.<\/p>\n<p>These are the Israel First type people who are anathema to Trump\u2019s stated 2016, 2020, and 2024 campaign agendas. They\u2019re not just uninterested in what Trump said were his priorities. They\u2019re directly opposed to them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1104623573\" class=\"d-flex justify-content-center fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 fdrlst__b89e9-entity-placement\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s what Friedman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/19\/opinion\/iran-israel-us-war-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said this week<\/a> after Trump announced that the U.S. and Iran had reached the early stages of a settlement to the war: \u201cTrump sold out America\u2019s ally in the war, Israel, and the Arab Gulf states for the swing states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan. \u2026 He had to stop the war now to get prices down by November. \u2026 So, Trump did what he always does: He abandoned all principle and all allies and put his personal interests above all other considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Note the way Friedman says Trump \u201csold out America\u2019s ally\u201d for the sake of siding with states in the actual U.S. That\u2019s like blaming someone for siding with his family over his coworkers. But that\u2019s genuinely how Israel Firsters like Friedman view the world \u2014\u00a0America\u2019s responsibility is first to other nations, rather than its own citizenry. Friedman considers the opposite to be selfish, which is why he framed Trump\u2019s decision as \u201chis personal interests,\u201d because he can\u2019t fathom a president who would prioritize the economic well-being of Americans over the war aims of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s look at Stephens, who also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/16\/opinion\/iran-us-war-trump-cease-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote this week<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >announced settlement intentions<\/a>: \u201cTrump got spooked after the [Iranian] regime didn\u2019t instantly crumble and energy prices shot up. He then effectively abandoned the war he had started after less than six weeks of sustained combat \u2014 combat in which the United States lost fewer service members than in the\u00a01983 invasion of Grenada. \u2026 [I]t\u2019s not odd for a president whose very essence is betrayal of everyone and everything, his own words not least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once again, you can see the casual dismissal of the cost of energy having \u201cshot up,\u201d which \u201cspooked\u201d the president. Those prices might have changed your life, sharply reducing the things you can buy and the places you can go, but that\u2019s of no concern to Israel First people. Your burden is their benefit. And that relative to some other conflict fewer Americans died, that\u2019s their bonus. Not as many mothers lost their sons and you should be celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>These are not Trump supporters. They never were. In fact, Bret Stephens was a proud \u201cNever Trump\u201d voter, then a self-identified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/17\/opinion\/joe-biden-conservative-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cBiden conservative,\u201d<\/a> then he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/21\/opinion\/kamala-harris-ally.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted for Kamala Harris<\/a>, and then, only after all of that failure, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/17\/opinion\/never-trump-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared himself<\/a> \u201cdone with Never Trump.\u201d No, people like Stephens and, to a somewhat lesser degree, Friedman, were only mildly supportive of Trump when he wanted to fight a war in Israel\u2019s interests. That they feel put out is exactly the way it should be.<\/p>\n<p>There are strong arguments on both sides as to whether this war was worth it. Many of us are simply ready for it to be over, so we can move on and refocus our problem-solving skills within the borders of this country, rather than across the Atlantic Ocean. That bothers all the right people and hopefully the president sees that as a good thing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party\u2019s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/bret-stephens\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Bret Stephens<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/iran\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/israel\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Israel<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-york-times\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/thomas-friedman\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Thomas Friedman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s push to end Iran war upsets Israel First critics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2616367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Donald-Trump.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[77512,15823,3634],"class_list":["post-2616366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-iran-deal-2","tag-nyt","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Donald-Trump.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616370,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616366\/revisions\/2616370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}