Blake Lively
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Well, and this is where it's really bad for the president is that he is now in a situation where he has promised to win a war.
And he said multiple times he's won the war.
But Americans have for several months now made sacrifices at the pump.
This is obviously going to cause basically across the board inflation.
And that's not I think this is these assessments are correct.
Trump himself acknowledged in an interview with Maria Bartiromo a couple of weeks ago that
The prices could remain elevated all the way up until the midterm elections.
And so when you're asking the public to make a sacrifice for safety, and then you have to find a way to negotiate something that is different from what was on the table before the war.
That is a serious, serious problem for President Trump right now, because if you lose American lives in the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz was obviously open before the war began.
And so if you end up losing American lives, this is an escalation that we're seeing happen right now.
in the process of trying to get something back to the pre-war status quo, that is disastrous, all while you're asking Americans to sacrifice their hard-earned money.
It's basically wiped out the benefits that the Trump administration was excited about from the tax cuts.
That's what some of the economic estimates are looking like right now.
It's easy to see how.
Those prices are so, so high and not going down anytime soon in all likelihood.
And so you might end up
I pray to God it doesn't happen, but you might end up losing more troops in the process of trying to open the Strait of Hormuz.
And then what is on the table in terms of actually, like we're right now seeing, President Trump has said the Iranian Navy has basically been decimated.
Well, we're in an era of asymmetric warfare.