The New York Post, a newspaper Donald Trump has long called his favorite, ran a sharply critical front page on Tuesday attacking his administration’s Iran policy. The paper mocked the Trump-Vance government with the headline “EASY MULLAH,” showing an Iranian cleric laughing while holding stacks of $100 bills, with Iranian oil fields in the background.
The Post accused the administration of handing what it called a “gift” worth $10 billion to Iran through eased oil sanctions, even though no final nuclear agreement has been signed. The paper said the money would benefit what it described as Tehran’s “terror regime,” and argued that the funds could be used to rebuild the Islamic regime.
Vice President JD Vance was singled out as the main driver of the more conciliatory approach. According to the Post, Vance has argued that Iran agreed to international monitoring, but the newspaper rejected that line and emphasized that “a full agreement has not yet been signed.”
The front page marked an unusually public attack from a publication that has often been seen as friendly to Trump and closely aligned with his political base in New York and across the United States. The coverage raised the question of whether Trump’s long-running honeymoon with conservative media is ending.
