Noel King

This is from 1988.

And he's asked, if you were a politician, what would your platform be?

He says, I'd be harsh on Iran.

They've been beating us psychologically, making us look like a bunch of fools.

One bullet shot at one of our men or ships and I'd do a number on Karg Island.

This sounds a lot like the way he is talking literally in the last 24 hours about doing a number on Karg Island.

You're aware of that.

Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

Can't this war just be what he wants?

Why does it have to be that he's being led by the nose here?

Isn't that denying him agency?

It is worth asking, as you've done rhetorically, what do people understand and what don't they understand?

So President Trump's platform in 2024, America first, this is the thing that helped him get elected, contained a promise, which is no more wars.

Recent polling shows that something like 85 to 92 percent of MAGA Republicans support this war.

That seems like a real contradiction.

Is the idea of America first just not as compelling to MAGA Republicans as you assumed?

Among the pollsters or the people responding to the- The people who take them seriously.

Not long after the U.S.

took Nicolas Maduro into custody in Venezuela, you did a monologue and you said that the U.S., an empire, needs serious men to run it.

People who are wise and understand stakes, not flighty, silly, emotionally incontinent people.