LEMON DROP | Trump's Iran War Crisis: Gen Z Has Had ENOUGH!
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How are Gen Z reactions to Trump's Iran war showcased on the streets?
Can we talk about war? By the way, how are you doing?
I'm in Chicago and it's also rainy in Chicago. So we're both going through the same experience. I'm doing well. I just got some breakfast with my producer. Now we're going to work all day. Covering the war is... It's quite intense. And that's because... The scale of death and destruction that's happening on a daily basis due to an unforced error by our dumbass leaders, it's insane to watch. And that's not even mentioning the economic destruction that we're going to see for the next few weeks. So it's just more BS every single day. And that's how I'm doing. More BS every day.
I'm with you on that, Adam McElroy. And I have you on – I wanted – not just to have you on because you have me on your platform as well. I wanted to discuss with you, both of us, how young people are feeling about this war. Now, as you know, Adam, I go out and I talk to people all the time with my man in the streets. And I talked to a bunch of people yesterday, most of them young people because I live very close to a university near NYU. And – Most very informed, not for this war at all, especially the school girls are outraged by it. But there were there was one, maybe a couple who said, you know, I I'm going to play it for you. And you tell me what you think about it. Yeah. Is it you tell me what you think?
If I want to hear what young people are saying. Yeah, this is just one person. OK, are you ready for this? You'll be able to hear it. I don't know. You won't be able to see it.
What about the war in Iran? I think Trump's doing the right thing, honestly. Why so? I got no comment on that. You don't know why? Nah, I'm just taking a guess. You're just guessing that he's doing the right thing? Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah. How do you feel? I mean, I don't know. I don't think Trump's doing the right thing. Is this a joke? What? Is this a joke? Yeah. No, it's not. It's not.
What does the campus man-on-the-street exchange reveal about youth support for Trump?
All right, you can go fucking drive home, bro. I'll walk home soon. Yeah, I don't know what just happened. But he doesn't even know why. Yeah, I don't know why. I just think, like, it's not good for a comedy. Like, I don't know. Okay.
How do you feel about that? What do you think? A few things. With all due respect, not every young person sounds like they're on horse tranquilizer all the time. Because I feel like that first dude got really mad at you and, like, stormed off.
He very clearly... No, he didn't get mad at me. He got mad at his friend because his friend said... Oh. His friend disagreed with him. His friend said, I don't think what they're doing, what Trump is doing with the war is right. And he said, are you kidding me? And the guy's like, no, I'm not. And he said, well, then you can walk home.
Whoa. Okay. I didn't catch that interaction. I thought that they were mad at you. Okay. First of all, the one emotional friend is very clearly just sucked up in right-wing propaganda. He has blind faith in Donald Trump. He has faith in whatever Donald Trump is doing. The friend that gave the rational answer is closer to where the average Gen Z-er is. Like, the average person that's Gen Z or millennial or honestly of any age, can see that America has tried and failed the same experiment in the past. We've tried it in the Middle East with Gaddafi. We tried with Saddam Hussein. We tried to overthrow the bad guy and think that that would cause some sort of change. But it almost always leads to more and more chaos, more and more internal militias fighting each other, and more and more debt.
We added $8 trillion to the national debt when we went to war in the Middle East in the 2000s when I was a little kid. And now we pay $1 trillion per year on the interest of our debt, right? So it's insane how much money we're paying just to fund prior wars that we did. And now Trump is going to war in the Middle East again, spending $1 to $2 billion a day. They're asking for about like $50 billion, which is roughly the same amount that we were asking for for the Affordable Care Act subsidy extension. So when you were interviewing those two young dudes, I actually think that's kind of a beautiful clip in a way, even though there's a little bit of tension there, because you have one person who's very clearly still clinging on to the faith he has for Donald Trump.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How are Gen Z reactions to Trump's Iran war showcased on the streets?
0:13–2:04
2
What does the campus man-on-the-street exchange reveal about youth support for Trump?
2:04–7:35
3
How does the war's human and economic cost worry young people?
7:35–17:24
4
Why are rising gas prices and tariffs affecting Gen Z's finances?
17:24–23:23