Sarah Smith
speaker
3,811 appearances
45 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It does have the feeling that it's getting entrenched and there is no obvious end in sight.
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And so this is the point at which you would assume even some of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters would be revolting about this.
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And certainly in the kind of influencer sphere and commentators are very angry and upset with the president about it.
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But not all of the base, I would say.
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I had a fascinating trip just a couple of weeks ago to South Dakota.
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And we went to Mount Rushmore because Donald Trump was visiting there.
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But mostly I was just trying to speak to Americans who'd come from all over the country to visit Mount Rushmore.
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And I met a lot of Republicans who were in full support of what Donald Trump was doing in Iran.
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Firstly, they said he wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't necessary.
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So their belief in him was such that if he thinks it's the right thing to do, he can contradict any campaign promises that he made because they believe in him more than they believe in the substance of what he said.
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And then they started parroting back phrases you hear from the president all the time that, yes, of course, prices have gone up in America, but that's nothing like what the cost would be if Iran were to develop a nuclear weapon and that you can't put a price on safety and security and that they were more than happy
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to be paying more for petrol or gas, as they obviously call it, if that's what the president thought was needed to be done.
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And people I spoke to, plenty of them who I spoke to who were against the war in Iran, weren't really Donald Trump supporters in the first place.
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And so it was really eye opening to me.
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The number of people I met who were very happy to say that they back the president pretty much whatever he does.
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There's one other difference as well, of course, with what's happening in Iran and previous wars that Donald Trump's railed against, like in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is the U.S.
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casualties are very low up until this point.
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I mean, this weekend in attacks on U.S.
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bases, two soldiers were killed, one's missing.
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So we don't know what might happen there.
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