David Ignatius, a columnist for the Washington Post, praised President Donald Trump for doing what previous President Joe Biden “could never do” in his Gaza peace deal.

On Wednesday night, Trump said that Israel and Hamas had negotiated the first step of what he called a “historic” peace deal: a truce and the first exchange of hostages and prisoners.

The president said on Truth Social that “ALL of the hostages will be released very soon” as part of the arrangement. He called the action “unprecedented.”Ignatius’s comments on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday came after host Joe Scarborough said that during peace discussions, both Israeli and Arab officials agreed that “if anyone was going to be able to resolve” the situation, “it would be Donald Trump.”Ignatius replied, “So, Joe, on the two sides of that, I can remember in the month or so after October 7, an Israeli senior official saying to me, we are so disoriented and traumatized by this war. The United States is going to have to make decisions for us. Joe Biden could never do that. And Donald Trump was able to do it.”He continued: “And [he] did it at the decisive moment when he said, essentially, this war must end and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, which many right-wing Israelis wanted.”