Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to rewrite history this week — and it didn’t end well for him. In a desperate and almost comical attempt to stay relevant, Joe Biden’s former top diplomat claimed that the Trump-brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas was actually based on a “plan” developed by the Biden administration. Needless to say, Trump’s team and conservative commentators quickly tore him to shreds.
It all began when President Donald Trump triumphantly announced the landmark ceasefire agreement — one that finally brought an end, at least for now, to the bloodshed sparked by Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel. The deal included the return of hostages and a roadmap for peace — a feat even Trump’s critics had to admit was a monumental diplomatic victory.
But within hours of the announcement, Blinken tried to swoop in and take credit. Posting a lengthy thread on X, the former Secretary of State wrote, “It’s good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden Administration developed after months of discussion with Arab partners, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority.” He went on to describe a so-called framework for “temporary, transitional authorities for Gaza’s governance, security, humanitarian assistance, and rebuilding,” claiming that Trump’s team merely “built upon” it.
That’s when the backlash began.
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) didn’t mince words, slamming Blinken’s revisionist history. “What an absolute joke!” he wrote. “@ABlinken was the worst Secretary of State we’ve ever had and oversaw one foreign policy disaster after the next — from the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan to the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the terrorist attacks against Israel. A complete failure.”
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine was even more brutal, blasting Blinken as a “pathetic” bureaucrat who “only got the job because he sucked up to Joe Biden for years and did favors for his crackhead son.”
Devine didn’t stop there. She reminded readers of Blinken’s track record of humiliation on the world stage: “This is the ineffectual toady who sat mute as Chinese officials yelled at him and disrespected America, who covered up his boss’s obvious cognitive decline, who presided over the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, and who helped his boss make every conflict in the world worse. So sure, try to take credit for what Trump achieved in eight months after your four years of humiliation. No one’s buying it.”
Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports also weighed in, calling Blinken’s post one of the most absurd things ever posted on X. “If you’re ever afraid you’ve said something stupid,” Mitchell wrote, “just bookmark this and refer to it.”
Even President Trump himself responded, laughing off Blinken’s desperate attempt to claim credit. “Everybody knows that’s a joke,” Trump said. “They did such a bad job. This should’ve never happened… Everything they did was the opposite of what you should’ve done.”
In the end, Blinken’s spin only reminded Americans why the world was so unstable under Biden — and why it took President Trump, once again, to clean up the mess.
