Michael Weiss
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That's going to be the new bright, shiny object, so to speak, to be chasing in the night sky.
I mean, yeah, he's kind of all over the place.
And his approval rating is what, in the 30s?
Which, you know, that's not how you make America great again, Tim.
No, it isn't, Michael.
Those are some George W. Bush numbers right there.
I wouldn't overthink it.
I think it's sort of bound up with Donald Trump's own psychology and his own sense of his importance on the world stage, right?
I mean, the economy is doing poorly.
Probably this is his last term.
We haven't heard much about him being president for life in quite a while.
So for him, what's his legacy?
He didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize, which he wanted badly because Barack Obama got it.
He solved 8, 9, 10, 12 wars except Ukraine, but that's imminent.
Any day now, that's going to be resolved.
If he can claim that he delivered the hammer blow to the Islamic Republic of Iran, whether by assassinating the supreme leader –
or taking out the upper echelon at the IRGC, or we already obliterated the nuclear program, so I guess he could re-obliterate it, or more significantly than that, actually, would be destroying the missile capabilities of Iran.
One of the reasons it's taken weeks and months to assemble the assets in place in the Gulf is to withstand the retaliation that would come in the form of short and mid-range ballistic missiles, which the Iranians have...