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Reason
Jay Stooksberry

Trump's Ceasefire Definition Sounds Wrong. History Sadly Suggests Otherwise.

Nobody will ever accuse President Donald Trump of being a linguist. But in a recent prescient moment, the oft-rambling, mercurial commander in chief stumbled upon an unconventional interpretation of a word that may be more accurate than the agreed-upon definition.

"How do you define ceasefire?" asked a reporter at the White House, questioning the dizzying, on-again, off-again nature of the volatile negotiations between the U.S., Israel, Iran, and Lebanon.

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