Glenn Greenwald

And he always showed this kind of aversion to war because of that.

And it is true that in his first term, he was the first president not to involve the United States in a new war in decades.

That really was true about him.

And I used to talk about that a lot.

In this last year, though, and I started noticing this when he bombed Yemen in the first month after criticizing Biden for having bombed Yemen.

And then he restarted that bombing campaign.

But especially when he bombed Iran in conjunction with Israel.

And he started going around talking about how he and Netanyahu were war heroes.

And he kept saying Netanyahu deserves a pardon for the criminal charges that he faced because those two are war heroes.

And you could see Trump really taking this sort of like –

pride and sense of strength.

He didn't, of course, fight in the military.

There was the Vietnam War that he avoided, but he started feeling like he was a war hero and he was starting to get this kind of positive feeling from ordering things bombed and from pulling things up and from showing that he was the strongest.

And so

In the first term, John Bolton tried to pressure him, so did Marco Rubio, to do regime change in Venezuela.

And he was okay with it.

And then he realized it was too hard and he didn't do it.

And that's what led to John Bolton leaving.

And now suddenly we're back to, oh yeah, look what happened.

He defied me.