Biden’s Secretary of State Takes Credit for Trump’s Gaza Success

Joe Biden’s foreign policy legacy is crashing down around him.

His team watched helplessly as conflicts raged across the globe for four straight years.

But Biden’s Secretary of State just made one stunning admission about Trump’s Gaza peace plan that left jaws on the floor.

Antony Blinken tries to rewrite history on Trump’s Middle East success

Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken just pulled off one of the most shameless attempts at legacy rehabilitation in recent memory.

The man who presided over Biden’s foreign policy disasters across the globe now wants credit for Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan.

During an appearance on Preet Bharara’s Stay Tuned with Preet podcast, Blinken made a jaw-dropping claim that should have every American rolling their eyes.

"This is essentially the plan that we developed over many months and more or less left in a drawer for the incoming administration," Blinken said about Trump’s Gaza peace plan.

You read that right.

The same Antony Blinken who couldn’t broker peace between a cat and a dog during four years in office now wants everyone to believe he had the solution all along – he just forgot to implement it.

Blinken went even further, saying he was "very, very glad they picked it up" and supported it being "fully implemented."

The audacity is breathtaking.

For four years, the Biden administration watched the Middle East spiral into chaos while claiming they were the adults back in charge of foreign policy.

Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Jewish civilians since the Holocaust on Biden’s watch.

The response from the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been devastating.

But patience for Netanyahu’s overreaches as the war has dragged on is wearing thin and now that Trump is finally getting close to an actual ceasefire and peace framework, suddenly Biden’s team had the answer sitting in a desk drawer the whole time.

The timing of Blinken’s claims doesn’t add up

Blinken’s attempt to steal credit for Trump’s success falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.

He claimed that "just before Trump took office, his peace plan could have been implemented" but the incoming administration needed time to get "organized."

That’s Washington, D.C. speak for "we had nothing, and Trump figured out what we couldn’t in four years."

He claimed that they supposedly had a "basic agreement on this plan back in November, but there were a few gaps that we weren’t able to close."

A few gaps?

The Biden administration spent four years failing to prevent October 7, failing to secure the release of American hostages, and failing to bring any meaningful peace to the region.

Those aren’t "gaps" – that’s complete foreign policy incompetence and getting walked all over by foreign heads of states.

Trump’s Gaza peace plan includes specific provisions like a transitional government in Gaza, massive humanitarian aid, disarming Hamas and other terror groups, and ensuring Israel won’t occupy Gaza permanently.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already expressed support for Trump’s framework – something that never happened with Biden’s fumbling diplomatic efforts.

The plan also includes what Trump calls his "economic development plan" to rebuild Gaza and provide hope for Palestinian civilians who have suffered under Hamas rule.

These are concrete, achievable goals with international backing – not the vague diplomatic word salad that characterized four years of Biden foreign policy disasters.

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Blinken’s desperate attempt to claim credit exposes everything wrong with the foreign policy establishment in Washington, D.C.

These people can’t admit they failed spectacularly.

Instead of taking responsibility for four years of weakness that saw foreign nations taking every advantage of America, they’re trying to rewrite history in real time.

For folks who lived through the Biden years, this should be insulting to your intelligence.

These same foreign policy geniuses want you to believe they had the Gaza solution all along – they just chose not to use it while the Middle East erupted and threatened to drag America’s young men and women into a wider conflict.

The American people aren’t buying this desperate attempt to salvage Biden’s foreign policy reputation.

Trump’s peace plan could work as long as he makes clear to both sides that he’s approaching international relations from a position of American strength, not the apologetic weakness that defined the last half decade of diplomacy.

Biden’s team had their chance to bring peace to the Middle East and failed miserably.

Trump stepped back into office and now appears poised to deliver real results.

No amount of after-the-fact credit-claiming can change that fundamental reality.

¹ Zachary Leeman, "Biden’s Secretary of State Takes Credit for Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan: ‘Essentially the Plan We Developed’," The Western Journal, October 2, 2025.