President Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war in Iran, and critics couldn't help but notice the historic symbolism around it.
The 80-year-old president signed the agreement at the Palace of Versailles, the historic setting of the 1919 treaty that ended World War I, after enjoying a lobster and caviar feast with French President Emmanuel Macron.
“It’s signed, yeah,” Trump told reporters as he left the dinner. “I signed it in Versailles.”
The terms of Trump's agreement to end his war in Iran have been criticized by Democrats and Republicans alike, and social media users highlighted the similarities between that deal and the Treaty of Versailles that Germany signed under protest, which ultimately destabilized its government and led to the rise of Adolf Hitler
"Yes, a treaty of Versailles should do the trick," cracked writer David Noll.
"I dunno, but signing a peace agreement in Versailles, of all places, strikes me as rather strange," noted Austrian economist Dominika Langenmayr. "I guess that the Treaty of Versailles (the 1919 one) isn't discussed too much in U.S. high schools?"
"Can you think of another famous treaty that was signed in Versailles in 1919?" asked The Blaze's David Krayden. "What happened as a result of that document? I know Trump wishes he could go back in time a few months and that this war never happened."
"The irony is NOT LOST on Macron," speculated Bluesky user BonFire. "Of course this demented idiot would have NO CLUE."
"'The Treaty of Versailles formalized the humiliating defeat of a great power' remains true," opined political theorist Jacob T. Levy.
"Undeniably good optics: signing a war treaty in Versailles," laughed podcaster Robert Evans. "It would be funny if OUR treaty of Versailles lead to the destruction of a fascist political party instead of its creation. I want that for us."
"This is the dumbest possible ending to the dumbest possible war," sighed science advocate Cole Donovan. "I honestly don't know why Iran didn't ask for ponies, they basically got everything else."
"He knows he’s heard of something from history called the Treaty of Versailles, so he thinks this is cool as hell," posited journalist Gillian Brockell.
"He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles?" added historian Kevin Kruse. "Come the f--- on."
