Franco Ordonez

expand this to give other reasoning, whether going after a strike on leadership or some type of ballistic site, or at least be able to message that.

Because I do think some of the American people are going to be questioning, hey, wait a minute, you said this was obliterated.

Now you're bombing another nuclear site.

So I

I do think he faces some, you know, some messaging challenges.

I mean, he has given like, you know, the State of the Union, he kind of meshed in these different ideas and kind of meshed together the ballistics, meshed together the nuclear, meshed together the proxies.

He didn't talk about regime change, but that's always kind of a, you know, kind of a desire that Republican presidents and leaders have wanted for a long time.

But he has not made a clear case on why the United States should do this right now.

What is the threat that he is facing?

You know, that is a big concern for a lot of people, including from his own party.

Again, politically, I mean, midterms are coming up.

This is a very sensitive time for Republicans.

They're down in the polls.

Trump is very much down in the polls.

And a lot of the criticism is that the president of the United States is focusing too much attention on.

on foreign policy issues and not domestic issues.

He's focusing too much on the issues he promised his supporters that he would be getting the United States out of.

So this lack of messaging to the American people could really come back to bite him.

Because when I talk to Republican strategists, they tell me if he would just do that, at least people would kind of have an understanding of why he is doing this.

And perhaps that would maybe insulate Republican candidates in the midterms from taking all of the blame if it goes wrong, because then they could say, well, at least we understood why he did that.