Franco Ordoñez

I mean...

While Kent is against this, while Tucker Carlson is against this, while Megyn Kelly is against this, you know, polls do show that most Republicans, particularly MAGA Republicans, continue to support Trump in this war.

I will say, though, I mean, I think it is, you know, somewhat early.

You know, we're still many months away from the midterm elections.

You know, I still kind of feel like Trump does have some time here to kind of turn this around.

Look,

It is definitely, I think, going in a direction that he doesn't want it to be going in.

I think he expected probably this would be over sooner than than this.

That said, when I speak with, you know, advisors and administration officials, you know, they feel like this is this is OK and that they still have the political backing of the American people, at least who they need for the time being.

And also feel if they can kind of meet these objectives, you know, kind of ending the nuclear capability of Iran, knocking out some the ballistic missiles and essentially making Iran less of a threat, then this could be seen as a political win as well.

I mean, there's a lot of a lot of uncertainty about ground troops and all those things.

But just, you know, there is that narrow view.

I think there is still potential for Trump, you know, to kind of

make a difference before, you know, politics really, really focus on the midterms.

I definitely think that it's revealed some of the weaknesses of his style, certainly on the foreign policy arena.

You know, like you say, he likes to do unilateral things, bilateral things.

And it's because it's where he has the most leverage, where the U.S.

has the most leverage over other powers, smaller powers, smaller countries.

And obviously, we've reported so many times about how he doesn't like alliances and multilateral organizations.

Well, the problem is, you know, it's easier to bully someone who's smaller one-on-one, but it's tougher to basically bully leaders into joining a coalition.