{"id":6196,"date":"2026-07-16T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:37:43","slug":"americans-think-trump-wont-get-a-better-iran-deal-than-obama-did-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6196","title":{"rendered":"Americans think Trump won\u2019t get a better Iran deal than Obama did, poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            As President Donald Trump has tried to sell the Iran war to a skeptical public, he has repeatedly returned to one particular talking point: that Barack Obama\u2019s Iran nuclear deal was a disaster, and he\u2019s going to produce something much better.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6194\">Monkey with orange lips identified as newfound species<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            In fact, Trump has mentioned Obama\u2019s nuclear deal more than three dozen times since the war began, according to a CNN review of Roll Call\u2019s Factbase transcripts.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll has some very bad news for Trump on that front.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It finds just 23% of Americans think Trump will be able to unveil a better Iran deal than Obama did back in 2015. And 37% \u2014 a 14-point split \u2014 wagered that Trump would produce a worse deal.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Another 12% expected the deals to be \u201cabout the same,\u201d while the rest didn\u2019t offer a view.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Even among Republicans, only a little more than half (54%) thought Trump will bring about a better agreement.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And that came overwhelmingly from his most devoted backers: 70% of MAGA Republicans said Trump would produce a better deal. Non-MAGA Republicans were about evenly split; while 27% of them thought Trump would get a better accord, 23% thought Obama\u2019s would be better.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Just 13% of independents thought the president would produce a better deal.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The finding in many ways epitomizes Trump\u2019s failure to build the case for a war that\u2019s becoming an increasing political liability.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            How many of those people truly understand what was in the Obama nuclear deal inked in 2015, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)? It\u2019s a fair question. Trump ripped that deal up nine years ago, and it was a very complicated agreement.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But that\u2019s kind of beside the point.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            For one, the JCPOA was pretty unpopular in real time. While some early polls showed people were open to it, a Pew Research Center poll in September 2015 showed Americans disapproved of it 49%-21%. By early 2016, a Gallup poll showed Americans disapproved of it 57%-30%.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6182\">Not everything you see online has to apply to you<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            That what Trump is pursuing inspires even less confidence is saying something.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Second, Trump has spent the last four and half months bashing that deal at every turn. He has routinely cast it as a complete sell-out to Iran that put the country on course to have a nuclear weapon.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cYou know what the Iranians did?\u201d Trump said a month ago alongside Egypt\u2019s president. \u201cThey laughed at Obama and they said he\u2019s a stupid son of a bitch.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            During a Monday appearance on Fox News, Trump called it \u201cthe worst agreement that has been signed by this country,\u201d and even seemed to baselessly hint at something much more nefarious about Obama\u2019s motivations for it.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Another key point: Few people think Trump will get a better deal even as he objectively invested much more in obtaining it. Trump went to war, costing more than a dozen American lives, quickly spending tens of billions of dollars and rocking the global economy. And there\u2019s still no end in sight for the war, given Iran\u2019s takeover of the Strait of Hormuz has created a huge problem that didn\u2019t exist pre-war.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Yet the American people seem to prefer the agreement that Obama was able to strike using only diplomatic efforts.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In some ways, the finding isn\u2019t surprising. Previous polls have shown around two-thirds of Americans don\u2019t think the war will actually do much to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon \u2014 despite Trump saying his goal was to prevent that outcome forevermore.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And the new poll also suggests that, if anything, Trump\u2019s political problem in Iran has gotten worse. The Post-Ipsos poll indicates 68% of Americans said the Iran war wasn\u2019t worth fighting, which is more than ever said that for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump\u2019s disapproval on Iran is now up to 69% as the midterm election tick ever closer.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But the new poll distills the crux of his problem: Based on the precise standard Trump has set for himself, the war seems like a failure.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=6170\">Advisers debate how much to declassify and reveal in Trump\u2019s primetime election speech<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has repeatedly argued that Barack Obama\u2019s Iran nuclear deal was a disaster, and he\u2019s going to produce something much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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