Michael Steele

You don't care about America.

The thing about Trump, though, is that Trump has been saying this from the very beginning.

When you go back to the very beginning, before the war even started, he called his, you know, and the bulwark, our friends over at the bulwark said,

have a great sort of compilation of Trump sort of stair-stepping us through the process of leading up to the war and how he viewed the economy at that time.

And he says, quote, I called in Scott Besson and all of my people, mostly my financial people, and I said, all right, folks, congratulations.

We hit the highest price of the stock market in history.

Then I said, congratulations, now I'm going to upset the apple cart for you because we have to take a little journey down to a beautiful country known as Iran.

That was the beginning.

He understood that while the economy and everything was starting to really begin to find its sea legs and move forward and strengthen, that he was about to take an action that would undermine that.

So he knew from the very beginning-

Because he saw Iran as Venezuela.

He thought he could just go and knock out the leadership, leave whatever remnants were behind, that they would be much more favorable to his plan to grab the oil.

It's always been about oil.

Donald Trump is an old school backwater, you know, guy from the 1950s who believe that, you know, the core of the American economic engine rests on things like oil.

Well, you and I know that was then.

This is now.

Our economy is much more diverse.

Our resources are very different.

We are the leader in oil production in the world, yes.

But we also have a diversification in the energy space that is going to be a part of what leads us into the future.