Ana Kasparian — Trump’s Iran War Gamble Just Blew Up In His Face

Trump apparently sent a letter to Mike Johnson explaining that this was their stance. Um, but to be clear, Mike Johnson already was interviewed earlier today and he said the same thing. The war is over. They're saying hostilities have terminated even though they haven't. Cenk, what do you think? Yeah, okay. So, let's just skip all the lies. I Is he in violation of the War Powers Act? Of course. Is the war illegal? Of course.

Is it unconstitutional for the president to go to war without a declaration of war? Of course. Uh Is he Is he past the 60 days now? Of course. Oh, we stopped counting uh when Rosanne got taken off the air cuz we thought that was unfair. [laughter] Okay, like none of that makes any sense. Okay. So, that that's kind of obvious. To me, the the real questions are are twofold, John. So, number one is I'm I'm back to I don't know what's going to happen.

Um, like it we have to leave the war which and this is how you do it. You just come home, okay? You just I mean, like the simplest deal with the Iranians. If you're saving face, who cares, right? So, I mean, Trump's going to pretend he like he cares, but is is an easy way to get past that. Here, I'll give Trump rare helpful advice for him. Just make a crappy deal and then lie about it and just tell all the you know, the Fox News viewers, the whatever fans you have left, right?

Oh, yeah, we won greatly in Iran. We made them open up the Strait of Hormuz. Like they won't know that it wasn't closed before. >> [laughter] >> Sean Hannity never told them, right? So, it [snorts] Come home. Come home. That's That's That's also super clear and he's got to do it, but but is he going to and I don't know. I mean, this is to me now, this has become one of the big big mysteries. Like I was convinced last week Anna got me to to to believe for good logical empirical reasons and the data we had at that point.

No, no, we're going back in, right? Now, I'm like Trump really seems kind of desperate to avoid it because it is a it will be an economic disaster and it will totally obliterate his administration if it isn't already obliterated. So, there's like if you're looking at it strictly from a Trump perspective, let alone an American perspective, you would have to be beyond crazy, beyond emotionally and psychologically disturbed to go back into this war because then because guys, one last thing that's important about this so you understand the context, he's kept the market together with duct tape by like every day coming out and going, "It's almost over.

Don't don't No, no, no, oil prices go down, go down. They shot down the Don't worry, don't worry, the oil's totally fine. The war's fine. Everything Peace is blooming everywhere. I'm a hippie now. I'm hanging out with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield and we're wearing Woodstock." Like and the markets are like, "Okay, bro. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, we believe you, we believe you. But if it turns out we go back to bombing, then they're going to go, "Oh."

Okay, and the market's going to crash and all those things are going to happen and way worse than than he even anticipates. So, then the question remains that that's left, if that's not a question, what is, is he fully and utterly controlled by Israel? Do they have blackmail on him? Because that's the only reason to go back in. Period. Period, right? So, if we don't go back in, hey, maybe they didn't they didn't have the blackmail.

And maybe he was just an idiot and got talked into it by the Israelis plus the bribes and all that stuff, but thank God they don't have the blackmail. Let's get the hell out of there, right? If he does go back in, they definitely have the blackmail and then economic calamity will ensue. So, the second part, John, is of course how it's affecting his own voters. So, Democrats are never in question. He never had any of them.

He's never going to get any of them. Independents, bye-bye, right? Gone. Uh, 70% of them are against the war. 61% of the whole country, not just against the war, say the war was a mistake, okay? And it's like at Iraq, at the height of the violence in mid-2006, when the Republicans got shellacked in the midterms, and everybody's furious with Iraq war, 59% of Americans thought the Iraq war was a mistake. Two months in, we're already at 61%, a higher number in Iran.

But now let's dive into his own voters, cuz I hear all over the internet and TV, "Oh, he hasn't lost a single MAGA voter." So he hasn't lost a single one Trump voter. They're all in a cult. Okay, let's go to graphic time. Among younger supporters, just 57% of Trump voters under 35 now approve of his job performance, marking a major drop from the near universal support he enjoyed among his coalition at the beginning of his term.

Okay, what Okay, the drop is a whopping 35 points from 92% approval rating he enjoyed among his youngest voters at the start of 2025. Uh, on the other hand, he's still hanging on uh to the over 50 voters, but even there's some erosion. There 87% of Trump voters uh ages 50 and older still approve of his performance. So, uh but on the war, uh only 79% of the over 50 approve the performance. So, on the war, he's even lost 20% of the zombies.

They're like, "Sean Hannity says it's a great idea, but I'm paying so much more for everything. I don't know I mean, we said no war, but Gutfeld says we should do war. I don't know." So like >> [snorts] >> 20% of those guys are against the war, which for Trump and his older base is still a remarkable number. But as Harry Enten would say, "You lost 35 points among your younger voters. It's going down." >> [laughter] >> Down, down.

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