# Tom Nichols — "the weirdest and most astonishing day in US foreign policy in decades" > [!quote] "the weirdest and most astonishing day in US foreign policy in decades." > — Tom Nichols, posted on social media, June 17, 2026 ## Context National-security scholar and Atlantic staff writer [[Tom Nichols]] posted this over a GIF of James Bond saying "He's quite mad, you know," reacting to the release and signing of the [[Trump-Iran MOU 2026]] at Versailles. ## Why This Matters Coming from a conservative, professionally credentialed national-security voice rather than a partisan opponent, the line distills the establishment-expert verdict on the deal: not merely bad, but bewildering. It pairs with Nichols's framing of the agreement as "the war Trump did not understand he lost." ## See Also - [[Trump-Iran MOU 2026]] - [[Iran War 2026]] - [[Tom Nichols]]