PBS FRONTLINE compiles a powerful highlight reel of Trump pledging "no new wars" on the campaign trail. pic.twitter.com/LM7yyHlDx4
— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) May 27, 2026
President Trump says Iran was only "two weeks away" from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which he claims they would have used against Israel and the entire Middle East.
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) May 27, 2026
“I would say it was a guarantee that it would’ve been used.”
“They were ready to go.” pic.twitter.com/oA5MISNLrr
I watched this documentary yesterday.
It left me angry because of all the things that I had been willing to tolerate.
There was the Syria strike in 2017 which caused my initial break with Trump in his first term. There was the assassination of General Soleimani for Israel in 2020. Heading into 2024, I thought this was bad, but I supported Trump because I judged it wasn’t as bad as Gaza and the Ukraine War under Biden. After Ukraine and Gaza, I convinced myself that I had overreacted to a few meaningless strikes.
After Trump’s second term began, I looked the other way and tolerated his war against the Houthis in Yemen. It was for Europe, not just Israel. I looked the other way when he failed to end the war in Ukraine on “Day One.” I never expected it would be that easy to persuade Putin to back off. I wasn’t willing to fully write off Trump after Operation Midnight Boomer or the attacks on Venezeulan drug boats. I didn’t write off Trump after Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire and resumed the war last March. I didn’t really care much either about Trump’s threats to annex Canada or to seize Greenland from Denmark.
The final straw for me was the two weeks around Christmas and New Year’s Day. In the span of two or three weeks, Trump launched air strikes on Nigeria and Somalia, abducted Maduro and seized control of Venezuela and was threatening Denmark over Greenland. I remember being disgusted with all the hubris after Venezuela. At that point, I knew all of these reckless actions were going to end in a disaster and that Trump’s luck would eventually run out. He began threatening Iran and sent that carrier over.
In a way I wouldn’t care if all of this foreign meddling somehow helped out the lives of the average (White) American but it only makes things worse through things like inflation and further indebting the nation.
You and I both.
It is to weep.
My grandfather in WW I and my father in WW II fought over the same terrain. For what?
Pure Bolshevik Soviet? Please watch so I don’t have to.
So it’s all about the Muslims for you? Inshallah Achmenibrad.
It is about being perpetually focused on and invested in wars with foreign countries, particularly in the Middle East, while the economy at home goes to shit and our standard of living deteriorates. The appeal of MAGA to Independent voters was doing the opposite. Instead, the status quo prevailed and got worse.
Heads I win, tails you lose, electoral politics is the biggest waste of time.