{"id":611589,"date":"2026-04-16T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611589\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:01:09","slug":"reaction-to-trumps-ceasefire-announcement-how-much-iran-could-make-from-strait-toll-trump-says-if-no-deal-then-fighting-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611589\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaction to Trump&#8217;s ceasefire announcement; How much Iran could make from strait toll; Trump says if no deal then &#8216;fighting resumes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has stepped up his criticism of media coverage during the war, comparing journalists to Pharisees, the biblical Jewish group that often clashed with Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth, a devout Christian, has invoked religion throughout the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I just can&#8217;t help but notice the endless stream of garbage, the relentlessly negative coverage you cannot resist peddling, despite the historic and important success of this effort and the success of our troops,&#8221; Hegseth said during a briefing at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on.&#8221; \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>He went on to recall a sermon he heard in church on Sunday that brought up how the Pharisees tried to undercut Jesus even when they witnessed him performing a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sat there in church and I thought, our press are just like these Pharisees,&#8221; he told the journalist in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>He added he wasn&#8217;t referring to all reports, just &#8220;the legacy, Trump-hating press&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0af90ea3-5097-48c6-9a33-617b6839f712.jpeg\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has stepped up his criticism of media coverage during the war, comparing journalists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-611589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}