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Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones said the United States has “not reached any” of President Donald Trump’s demands in the Iran war after the Trump administration announced a two-week ceasefire of the conflict.
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The comments come from a more conservative network that has been viewed as friendly to Trump. The president has frequently called into Fox & Friends over the years, and the show's hosts have offered praise for his administration.
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U.S., Iran Enter Ceasefire Agreement: What to Know
Trump announced the ceasefire on Tuesday evening following his threats that a "whole civilization will die” if a deal is not reached. It has been over a month since the U.S. and Israel first struck Iran in February, and the conflict has widened across the Middle East.
The Trump administration touted the deal as a victory. It was met with sighs of relief by critics of the war, who feared escalation and new questions from members of Congress.
Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday morning that there is “only one group of meaningful ‘POINTS’ that are acceptable to the United States” and that they will be discussed “behind closed doors during these Negotiations.”
“These are the POINTS that are the basis on which we agreed to a CEASEFIRE. It is something that is reasonable, and can easily be dispensed with,” he wrote.
Trump has described the proposal as a “workable base” for negotiations. Some aspects of the deal had remained murky. Iran and the United States have circulated competing versions of the ceasefire terms, including disagreements over uranium enrichment and control of the Strait of Hormuz.
The ceasefire remained in place but faced tests across the region on Wednesday as Israel said the ceasefire did not apply to Lebanon and continued launching strikes on Beirut, killing dozens and injuring hundreds, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.
Pakistan, key in brokering the deal, said Lebanon was indeed included in the ceasefire. Other countries like Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain also reported new missiles from Iran.
What Lawrence Jones Said About Ceasefire
“I will say that the president’s demands—we have not reached any of those objectives," Jones said Wednesday on Fox & Friends. "I have full confidence that the president is going to find some way to make this happen. But he said we want to dismantle all major nuclear facilities. That has not happened. The end of uranium enrichment on the soil, they’re still enriching,” he said.
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He continued, “The transfer of their enriched uranium stockpiles out of Iran, that hasn’t happened. The acceptance of intrusive international inspections, they’re still not willing to do that. And they have not suspended their ballistic missile program.”
He said the question is whether Trump is “using these two weeks to give our soldiers a break, a rest to see if we can get this ultimately done.”
U.S. Lawmakers React to Iran Ceasefire
The agreement drew mixed reactions from U.S. politicians.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York wrote to X, “I’m glad Trump backed off and is desperately searching for any sort of exit ramp from his ridiculous bluster.”
Democrats have pushed for renewed efforts to pass a war powers resolution to curb some of Trump's authority to wage war against Iran without Congressional support.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office mocked Trump in a post to X, referring to the “Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO)” meme. His office wrote, “We finally have something nice to say about Trump: he’s made Taco Tuesday a global phenomenon.”
Representative Yassamin Ansari, an Arizona Democrat, criticized those making jokes about the deal.
“I do not appreciate anyone - Democrat or Republican - taking this moment to make TACO jokes to say Trump 'chickened out.' The president was threatening genocide against 90 million Iranians. I’m grateful there’s a ceasefire & scores of innocent people didn’t die tonight,” she wrote.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said he believes the “supposed negotiating document” has “some troubling aspects” and that key architects of any agreement need to show Congress “how a negotiated deal meets our national security objectives in Iran.”
“Allowing this regime to enrich in the future would be an affront to all those murdered by the regime since this war started and would be inconsistent with denying Iran a pathway toward a bomb in the future,” he wrote.
This article includes reporting by The Associated Press.
Update 4/8/26 1:51 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
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