The president has twice invoked Herbert Hoover while describing his push to end the Iran war, even as a June cease-fire deal has only partly held and negotiators haggle over terms for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
At a closing press conference of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 17, President Trump twice raised the name of Herbert Hoover while describing his push to end the war with Iran, according to a transcript of the remarks. "I've studied presidents, some good, some bad, some great. Not too many are great and some really bad. The one president I did not want to be was the late, great Herbert Hoover," Trump said. Later in the same appearance, discussing the economic stakes of the war, he added: "the one I always thought of, Herbert Hoover, and he caused it. He raised taxes too fast and he raised interest rates."
Hoover, a Republican who left office in 1933, is widely associated with the onset of the Great Depression. Trump told reporters that market reaction had reinforced his thinking on the war: "every time we talked about the possibility of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship," he said, according to the same transcript.
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