Trump Goes Nuts in Public in AM as War Gets Worse

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What is the current situation with Iran’s missile attacks on Israel?

Ben Meiselas 0:05
That explosion right there was in the center of Tel Aviv. Iran's ballistic missiles were able to hit a lot of their targets in Israel during the morning hours, resulting in a lot of deaths in Tel Aviv. The Israeli stock exchange was hit. A lot of residential buildings were hit. A hospital was hit in southern Israel. What's Donald Trump talking about while all of this is taking place? He's talking about poll numbers. This is what Donald Trump posted at 6 a.m. in the morning with all of the news breaking that it appears the United States is potentially moments away for officially going to war with Iran. I shouldn't say officially in the sense that it would be unauthorized not going through Congress, but officially.
Ben Meiselas 0:52
that Donald Trump is going to be sending aircrafts to potentially attack potential nuclear sites in Iran or sites capable of developing nuclear weapons, as being alleged by the Trump regime. But here's what Donald Trump is talking about. Here's what he's posting on his social media. The crooked Fox News polls got the election wrong. I won by much more than they said I would and have been biased against me for years. They're always wrong and negative. It's why MAGA hates Fox News, even though their anchors are great. This has gone on for years, but they never change the incompetent polling company that does their work. Now a new Fox News poll comes out this morning, giving me little more than 50% at the border.
Ben Meiselas 1:39
and yet the border is miraculously perfect. Nobody was able to come in last month. 60,000 people came in with Sleepy Joe in the same month last year. I hate fake pollsters, one of the worst, but Fox will never change their discredited pollsters. So Donald Trump's approval in that poll is around 45%. In the Quinnipiac, YouGov, and AP polls, it's in the 30% range, 38 to 40% range. When it comes to the border, Donald Trump on that Fox poll was around 50%. But when it comes to Donald Trump's deportations of hardworking migrants, Donald Trump is significantly underwater there as well. Donald Trump's deportations are grossly unpopular as Donald Trump is targeting restaurants and factories and Home Depot parking lots and courthouses and going after people who are not committing crimes.
Ben Meiselas 2:36
While Donald Trump is posting about his poll numbers and the White House is bragging about two gigantic flagpoles that they put up on the North and South Lawn of the White House, CBS is reporting that Donald Trump has been briefed on the risks and benefits of bombing the Fordow nuclear facility in Iran and that Donald Trump's mindset is to commit United States troops, We need more clarity. We need more information. This would be a time when a leader would address the nation and tell everybody what is going on. Is the goal to stop the nuclear program? Well, then why did Donald Trump pull us out of Obama's nuclear deal that stopped the nuclear program? Why did Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, say less than 90 days ago before Congress that the intelligence the United States had was that Iran is not capable of making a nuclear weapon?

Why is Donald Trump focusing on poll numbers while the war escalates?

Ben Meiselas 3:38
Is our goal to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon? Or is the goal regime change? Because all I hear now on Fox and from MAGA, regime change, regime change, regime change. And look, I think that the Ayatollah and the Iranian regime is... horrific. I would certainly like to see a regime that supports not what they're doing. I'd like to see a democracy in Iran. However, what I don't want to see in the region is a bloody civil war. I don't want to see an endless American war. I don't want to see a situation where a civil war spreads in the region. And before you know, America is in an endless war with tens of thousands of our troops dying. And that's what I want to avoid. I want clarity in what the hell is going on.
Ben Meiselas 4:27
I don't want to go in the direction of what happened with Iraq. WMD this, WMD that. We're seeing the exact same types of talking points rolled out, but in a very expedited and sloppier fashion even. Donald Trump post just moments ago, the Wall Street Journal has no idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran.

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