A brand-new Quantus poll shows a strong majority of American voters approve of President Trump's Iran deal, which means the legacy media's "controversial and divisive" narrative just face-planted into a brick wall of public opinion.
You could almost hear the sad trombone playing in every CNN greenroom across the country.
The Quantus survey, conducted June 16 and 17 among 1,000 likely voters, found that 43 percent "strongly approve" and 13 percent "somewhat approve" of the memorandum of understanding signed between the U.S. and Iran — that's 56 percent approval for the math-challenged journalists out there. On the disapproval side? A whopping 8 percent "strongly disapprove" and 5 percent "somewhat disapprove." That's 13 percent total.
Fifty-six to thirteen. That's not a poll result, that's a blowout. That's the political equivalent of beating someone 56-13 in football and then taking a knee because you feel bad.
But here's the part that really stings for the press corps: they've spent the last week telling you this deal is a disaster. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called it a "fiasco" and proclaimed, "This is not the art of the deal. This is the art of surrender." Every cable news panel trotted out their most concerned-looking former diplomats to furrow their brows about what Trump "gave away."
And the American people? They looked at all of that, shrugged, and said: "Nah, we're good with it."
The polling numbers represent a direct rebuke to the media class that has been working overtime to frame the 14-point agreement as some kind of capitulation. The deal, signed June 18 by President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, includes Iran's reaffirmation that it won't develop nuclear weapons, a 60-day window for a final deal, and IAEA supervision of Iran's enriched-material stockpile.
Americans looked at those terms and decided — correctly — that ending a conflict, getting a denuclearization commitment, and reopening the Strait of Hormuz is actually a good thing. Shocking, we know.
The disconnect between media coverage and public opinion isn't new, but it never stops being funny. These are the same outlets that told us the border was secure, that inflation was transitory, and that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack. At some point you'd think they'd realize their credibility account is overdrawn.
What the Quantus numbers really show is something deeper: Americans are tired of forever wars, forever tensions, and forever hand-wringing. When a president actually gets an adversary to the table and walks away with a signed agreement, normal people — the ones who don't have green rooms and hair stylists — say "good."
The 56 percent who approve aren't policy wonks parsing enrichment thresholds. They're parents and workers and veterans who watched three and a half months of conflict and are relieved somebody ended it. Meanwhile, the 13 percent who disapprove are almost certainly the same 13 percent who disapprove of everything Trump does, including breathing.
Here's a free tip for the mainstream media: when your narrative is losing to reality by a 56-to-13 margin, the problem isn't the voters. It's you.
Trump got the deal. The people approve. And the press still can't bring themselves to type six simple words: "Trump was right about this one."