White House report card: War, what is it good for? Depends who you ask
Same show, different day.
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today, we run the rule over the president’s week, and there’s good news for Republicans thinking about the midterm elections.
Was that the most consequential week of Donald Trump’s second term? He announced strikes on Iran with a video posted in the early hours of Saturday morning, and then spent the rest of the week going back and forth with differing justifications, as allies expressed misgivings. Six Americans are already dead.
A quick win, bringing Iran to heel with limited American casualties, and Trump will have demonstrated U.S. resolve to remake the Middle East. But any sign of a long-running conflict and the 50% or more of Americans who currently disapprove of the strikes could become a huge problem in the midterm elections.
The other big news of the week came on Thursday, when Trump fired embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. As Secrets previously reported, the president did not much care for her negative headlines and string of controversies so long as she was doing exactly what he wanted. But that all changed when she appeared before a Senate oversight committee and claimed that Trump himself had signed off on a controversial $200 million ad campaign featuring Noem. You can get away with a lot under this president, but not that.
So how do our two political strategists, from different sides of the aisle, grade the president’s week?
Jed Babbin: A
So President Trump pulled the trigger, and we’re at war with Iran. It has been 47 years of terrorist attacks since the 1979 Iranian revolution put the ayatollahs in power, and now they’re struggling to survive. Trump fired Noem, and his popularity is soaring because of the Iran war.
Trump could lose ground fast because of our casualties and because he will be tempted — like President George W. Bush before him — to call the war to an end too soon. If he does, and thus enables the ayatollahs to stay in power, he, and we, will have lost the war.
We’ve lost six dead in the war already, and more casualties will happen. The president needs to make an Oval Office speech to explain what we’re doing in Iran and what results he will desire. His social media stuff isn’t enough. If he wants to lead the American people, he needs to do so.
The Democrats have failed in their effort to limit Trump’s war powers. Senate Minority Leader Chuckie Schumer’s (D-NY) effort to pass a bill through the Senate failed, and with it, so did House Minority Leader …
Same show, different day.
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today, we run the rule over the president’s week, and there’s good news for Republicans thinking about the midterm elections.
Was that the most consequential week of Donald Trump’s second term? He announced strikes on Iran with a video posted in the early hours of Saturday morning, and then spent the rest of the week going back and forth with differing justifications, as allies expressed misgivings. Six Americans are already dead.
A quick win, bringing Iran to heel with limited American casualties, and Trump will have demonstrated U.S. resolve to remake the Middle East. But any sign of a long-running conflict and the 50% or more of Americans who currently disapprove of the strikes could become a huge problem in the midterm elections.
The other big news of the week came on Thursday, when Trump fired embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. As Secrets previously reported, the president did not much care for her negative headlines and string of controversies so long as she was doing exactly what he wanted. But that all changed when she appeared before a Senate oversight committee and claimed that Trump himself had signed off on a controversial $200 million ad campaign featuring Noem. You can get away with a lot under this president, but not that.
So how do our two political strategists, from different sides of the aisle, grade the president’s week?
Jed Babbin: A
So President Trump pulled the trigger, and we’re at war with Iran. It has been 47 years of terrorist attacks since the 1979 Iranian revolution put the ayatollahs in power, and now they’re struggling to survive. Trump fired Noem, and his popularity is soaring because of the Iran war.
Trump could lose ground fast because of our casualties and because he will be tempted — like President George W. Bush before him — to call the war to an end too soon. If he does, and thus enables the ayatollahs to stay in power, he, and we, will have lost the war.
We’ve lost six dead in the war already, and more casualties will happen. The president needs to make an Oval Office speech to explain what we’re doing in Iran and what results he will desire. His social media stuff isn’t enough. If he wants to lead the American people, he needs to do so.
The Democrats have failed in their effort to limit Trump’s war powers. Senate Minority Leader Chuckie Schumer’s (D-NY) effort to pass a bill through the Senate failed, and with it, so did House Minority Leader …
White House report card: War, what is it good for? Depends who you ask
Same show, different day.
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today, we run the rule over the president’s week, and there’s good news for Republicans thinking about the midterm elections.
Was that the most consequential week of Donald Trump’s second term? He announced strikes on Iran with a video posted in the early hours of Saturday morning, and then spent the rest of the week going back and forth with differing justifications, as allies expressed misgivings. Six Americans are already dead.
A quick win, bringing Iran to heel with limited American casualties, and Trump will have demonstrated U.S. resolve to remake the Middle East. But any sign of a long-running conflict and the 50% or more of Americans who currently disapprove of the strikes could become a huge problem in the midterm elections.
The other big news of the week came on Thursday, when Trump fired embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. As Secrets previously reported, the president did not much care for her negative headlines and string of controversies so long as she was doing exactly what he wanted. But that all changed when she appeared before a Senate oversight committee and claimed that Trump himself had signed off on a controversial $200 million ad campaign featuring Noem. You can get away with a lot under this president, but not that.
So how do our two political strategists, from different sides of the aisle, grade the president’s week?
Jed Babbin: A
So President Trump pulled the trigger, and we’re at war with Iran. It has been 47 years of terrorist attacks since the 1979 Iranian revolution put the ayatollahs in power, and now they’re struggling to survive. Trump fired Noem, and his popularity is soaring because of the Iran war.
Trump could lose ground fast because of our casualties and because he will be tempted — like President George W. Bush before him — to call the war to an end too soon. If he does, and thus enables the ayatollahs to stay in power, he, and we, will have lost the war.
We’ve lost six dead in the war already, and more casualties will happen. The president needs to make an Oval Office speech to explain what we’re doing in Iran and what results he will desire. His social media stuff isn’t enough. If he wants to lead the American people, he needs to do so.
The Democrats have failed in their effort to limit Trump’s war powers. Senate Minority Leader Chuckie Schumer’s (D-NY) effort to pass a bill through the Senate failed, and with it, so did House Minority Leader …
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