Donald Trump Accused of Copying Obama’s Iran Plan – Explodes in Late Night Rant

The president exploded on social media after a Democratic senator pointed out the obvious—his new Iran proposal sounds eerily familiar to Obama’s nuclear deal.

President Donald Trump is fuming—and it’s not just over foreign policy.

Late Sunday night, the president lashed out in an unhinged Truth Social rant after Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) called out what many have already noticed: Trump’s quiet push for a nuclear deal with Iran is starting to look a lot like Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—the very deal Trump torched in 2018.

“Tell phony Democrat Senator Chris Coons that I am not offering Iran ANYTHING,” Trump posted just before midnight. “Unlike Obama, who paid them $Billions under the stupid ‘road to a Nuclear Weapon’ JCPOA (which would now be expired!).”

Trump also insisted he hasn’t even been in contact with Iran, adding that the U.S. had already “OBLITERATED their Nuclear Facilities.”

But according to reporting by CNN and The New York Times, that’s a stretch. United Nations nuclear inspectors recently said the destruction was “severe” but far from total. In fact, experts warned that Iran could have its program operational again within months.

Senator Coons’ comments came during a Sunday appearance on Fox News, where he cautiously praised Trump’s performance at the NATO summit—but didn’t let him off the hook when it came to Iran.

“Press reports suggest that President Trump is now pivoting toward negotiation, offering Iran reduced sanctions and economic incentives—just like Obama did,” Coons said. “It’s the same framework: money for compliance.”

Behind closed doors, it appears the Trump administration is scrambling to seal a face-saving deal. Multiple outlets report that the U.S. is floating a patchwork of proposals to Tehran, including:

• $20–$30 billion in reconstruction funds—not from U.S. taxpayers, but funneled through Arab allies.
• Access to $6 billion in Iranian assets frozen in overseas accounts.
• A Gulf-state-backed initiative to rebuild the Fordow nuclear facility as a civilian research center.

That last detail is particularly ironic. Fordow was one of the key targets in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign earlier this month that severely damaged Iran’s enrichment capacity. But experts say that Tehran may have evacuated key assets before the strikes.

“Almost 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium may have been moved before the bombings,” Coons warned. “That would fit in the back of an F-150. There are photos showing trucks leaving those facilities.”

The Obama-era nuclear agreement—signed in 2015 and supported by European allies—was designed to keep Iran’s nuclear ambitions in check through international inspections and phased sanctions relief. Trump pulled the U.S. out in 2018, calling it a “disaster.”

What followed was a spike in Iran’s uranium stockpile, years of regional escalation, and a diplomatic void that left America sidelined in its own backyard.

Now, with tensions at a boiling point and Israeli forces exhausted after weeks of conflict with Hezbollah-backed militias, Trump’s administration is quietly working to broker a “longer-term” ceasefire, insiders say—and that may require dusting off a framework he once vilified.

“Call it what you want, but if it looks like a JCPOA, smells like a JCPOA, and costs $30 billion, it’s probably a JCPOA,” one former State Department official told us.

The White House has declined to comment on the record, though one source close to the negotiations insisted that any future deal “will be stronger, better, and completely different.”

Meanwhile, Iran has so far refused direct talks, though several diplomatic backchannels remain open through intermediaries in Qatar and Oman.

For critics, the whole thing reeks of political theater. While Trump rages online, his team appears to be following a familiar diplomatic playbook—one crafted under an administration he’s spent a decade demonizing.

The question now is whether the American public will buy it. Or if Democrats—and foreign policy hawks alike—will call this what it is: a secondhand peace plan with a new coat of red, white, and gold paint.