Applebaum: Trump Peace Deal Coverage Has Been So Ecstatic, “It’s As If We’re Influenced By His Opinion Of What He’s Done”
The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum reacts to media coverage of the Israel-Hamas peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump on this week’s broadcast of “Washington Week.”
JEFFREY GOLDBERG, ‘WASHINGTON WEEK’ HOST, ATLANTIC EDITOR: And another example would be he claims to have brought peace to Pakistan and India. I don’t think anybody at this table would say that would bet that Pakistan and India are never going to have another armed confrontation again. ANNE APPLEBAUM, ATLANTIC: No. And, actually, I’ve been really bothered by the coverage of the Middle East story, because whatever credit he deserves for putting pressure on Netanyahu, the coverage has been so ecstatic, almost sort of echoing his own rhetoric. It’s as if we’re influenced by his high opinion of what he’s done. And exactly the point that Nancy just made, you know, we haven’t talked about who’s going to govern Gaza. We haven’t talked about what the broader region looks like. I mean, all these unanswered questions that normally they would be — that would be the main thing we were discussing. And somehow, as you know, Trump bends the story and he twists it. And here we are talking about the Nobel Prize, as if that was what was important, not peace and Gaza.
