David Frum

And he fantasized, I think, about boosting his numbers with a glorious war.

But George H.W.

Bush, who had the most successful foreign policy of any president in American history, still lost to Bill Clinton.

Because people said, thank you very much for reunifying Germany and winning the Gulf War, but I'm out of work, so you lose.

And Trump has signed up for a situation where even if Iran wins, I don't think he gets anything politically for that.

People say, oh, well, that's a relief.

Great.

Now back to talking about the economy.

And if it goes badly, he gets punished.

One of the reasons that a normal president for contemplating any military conflict of any substantial size, I'm not talking about like Ronald Reagan going to Grenada in 1983, but wars of substantial size, presidents get buy-in from Congress, an authorization for the use of military force, or at least some kind of symbol of collective agreement.

And they make speeches to the public and they get public buy-in and they make a case.

And they do all of that because when things go wrong,

And they always do.

And people say, whose idea was this?

The president said, well, we all agreed.

All of us.

All of us.

You can't just blame me solo alone because, look, I was standing there flanked by the leaders of House and Senate from both parties and the prime minister of Great Britain and the president of France and the chancellor of Germany and the prime minister of Canada and the prime minister of Australia.

We all thought it was a good idea.

And by the way, 60 percent of you approved.