Hillary Clinton Just Humiliated Every Democrat Who Spent 10 Years Attacking Trump
Hillary Clinton built her entire post-2016 identity on one argument: Donald Trump was an illegitimate president who had no business running anything.
She said it on CBS News in 2019.
And then she sat down with The New Yorker this week and said something that should have been impossible.
Clinton Breaks From the Democratic Script
In an interview with The New Yorker's David Remnick on Monday, Clinton was asked about the prospects for a two-state solution in Gaza.
Remnick set up the question by conceding that neither Israeli nor Palestinian political factions seemed interested in the two-state framework – and that it looked "impossible."
Clinton didn't try to spin it.
"I'm gonna say something positive about Trump," she said.
Then she said it.
"Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza is actually a pathway to security for Israel, reconstruction for Gaza, and the possibility of self-determination, however defined, for the Palestinians."
She went further.
"There are a lot of people who reject it because Trump did it, but it's the only game in town."
The only game in town.
This is the woman who called Trump an "illegitimate president" on CBS News in 2019.
This is the woman who spent years insisting Russia stole 2016 from her.
And she just handed Trump the single biggest diplomatic validation he's received from the American left on the Middle East.
What Trump's Plan Actually Accomplished
The 20-point plan that Clinton is praising isn't a wish list – it's already working.
Trump announced the framework in September 2025 alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Within days, Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase – a ceasefire, frozen battle lines, and the release of hostages.
By January 2026, Hamas had returned the remains of the last hostage held from the October 7, 2023, attacks, completing the terms of Phase One.
The plan moved to Phase Two – demilitarization, reconstruction, and a path toward Palestinian governance – and more than 35 nations joined Trump's Board of Peace.
Saudi Arabia. Qatar. Egypt. All in.
Arab states that haven't been in the same room together on a peace framework in decades are now committed to a plan named after a man Democrats spent eight years calling a fascist.
The Democrats Who Cannot Say His Name Are Running Out of Time
Clinton isn't the only Democrat who's broken ranks.
Kamala Harris told MSNBC she "commends the people who have been a part of this process."
Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona said Trump "should get a lot of credit" for the deal.
The party has a problem and Clinton just made it worse by being the most honest about it.
The base has spent years demanding Democrats never give Trump an inch – no credit, no acknowledgment, no quarter.
But Trump brokered a ceasefire that Joe Biden couldn't in four years of trying.
He got Saudi Arabia and Egypt to sign on to a framework with his name on it.
And now the woman who has been the face of Trump resistance since 2016 is sitting in a New York interview telling the world his plan is the only one that works.
That's the progressive dam cracking – and Clinton swung the hammer herself.
The foreign policy establishment spent years arguing Trump was too erratic, too crude, too transactional to handle something as complex as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Middle East has proved all of them wrong, and Hillary Clinton – of all people – just said so out loud.
Sources:
- Elizabeth Weibel, "Hillary Clinton Praises Trump's 20-Point Gaza Plan: 'Only Game in Town,'" Breitbart, June 16, 2026.
- Fox News Staff, "Trump Unveils 20-Point Plan to Secure Peace in Gaza," Fox News, September 2025.
- "Donald Trump's Frequent Critics Sing His Praise," Newsweek, October 13, 2025.
- Gregg Re, "Hillary Clinton: Trump Is an 'Illegitimate President,'" Fox News, October 2021.
