Thursday, June 18, 2026, Orlando, Florida
For those of you who appreciate history—and historical irony—this one is hard to improve on.
Do you know where Donald Trump—a man who, during his first term in the White House, reportedly had to be told why Pearl Harbor is a hallowed place as well as an important naval base—digitally signed the Memorandum of Understanding that will end his poorly planned, badly executed, and extremely unpopular war with Iran?
Are you sitting down?
The MOU was signed—remotely, of course—at a palace in Versailles, near Paris. Not just any symbolic backdrop, either: Versailles is where Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors, formally ending World War I.
That treaty was supposed to secure the peace. Instead, its punitive terms—including the war-guilt clause, territorial losses, military restrictions, and crushing reparations—helped fuel German resentment and political instability in the years that followed. It became less a clean ending than a warning label for what happens when a settlement is written more to humiliate than to heal.
And we know how well that went, right?
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