War with Iran Archives

Worst Job Ever

June 23, 2025 Buck Banks

This Israel-Iran-U.S.-Qatar situation is really a downer.
Iran matched bombs dropped with missiles in the encounter.
As rockets, bombs and lies get lobbed,
You’ve got to figure the world’s worst job
Is being a professional Iranian bomb counter.

Trump’s Toddler Thinking

June 23, 2025July 11, 2025 Buck Banks

“Nobody came to my birthday parade — poor, pitiful me.
“Then Bibi got all the Iran glory from my friends on Fox TV.
“You wouldn’t like it if it happened to you,
“But what’s a gonna-be dictator to do?
“I wanted all the attention, so I started World War III.”

60%

A new Economist/YouGov poll finds 60% of Americans think the U.S. military should not get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Only 16% support U.S. military action, and 24% are unsure.

Trump Is Incapable of Being an Effective Wartime President

June 19, 2025 Buck Banks

“I noted over the weekend several reasons why Donald Trump himself, his presidency, and his administration overall are nowhere near prepared for the Iran/Israel situation. … But the more that it becomes an Iran/US situation, the more it’s important to add one more important point: Trump is absolutely, utterly unprepared to rally the nation around a war effort. And nothing we’ve seen in the last ten years even hints that he’s capable of it.”

— Jonathan Bernstein

Americans Oppose Attacking Iran

June 19, 2025 Buck Banks

45%

A new Washington Post poll finds Americans opposing U.S. airstrikes against Iran by a 20 percentage-point margin — 45 percent to 25 percent — with a sizable 30 percent saying they are unsure.

Even Trump’s Base Opposes War with Iran

June 18, 2025 Buck Banks

16%

An Economist/YouGov poll found that only 16% of U.S. adults and less than a quarter of Republicans think the U.S. should get involved in the conflict between Iran and Israel. Trump voters are even less enthusiastic than Republicans as a whole. Only 19% of 2024 Trump voters support U.S. involvement.

Trump Downplays Wounds Soldiers Suffered in Iran Missle Attack

January 23, 2020 Buck Banks

“I heard that they had headaches. And a couple of other things.”

— President Trump appeared to brush off the traumatic brain injuries and concussion-like injuries sustained by U.S. service members after Iran’s missile strike on a military base in Iraq, saying he did not consider them to be “very serious injuries,” ABC News reports.

Trump Threaten Europe with Tariffs Over Iran

January 16, 2020 Buck Banks

25%

“A week before Germany, France and Britain accused Iran of breaching the 2015 nuclear deal, the Trump administration privately threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on European automobiles if they didn’t, according to U.S. and European officials,” the Washington Post reports. “The U.S. effort to coerce European foreign policy through tariffs represents a new level of hardball tactics with America’s oldest allies and could result in the reimposition of sanctions against Iran.”

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Majority Opposes U.S. Military Involvement with Iran

60%

A new Economist/YouGov poll finds 60% of Americans think the U.S. military should not get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Only 16% support U.S. military action, and 24% are unsure.

Trump Is Incapable of Being an Effective Wartime President

— Jonathan Bernstein

Americans Oppose Attacking Iran

45%

A new Washington Post poll finds Americans opposing U.S. airstrikes against Iran by a 20 percentage-point margin — 45 percent to 25 percent — with a sizable 30 percent saying they are unsure.

Even Trump’s Base Opposes War with Iran

16%

An Economist/YouGov poll found that only 16% of U.S. adults and less than a quarter of Republicans think the U.S. should get involved in the conflict between Iran and Israel. Trump voters are even less enthusiastic than Republicans as a whole. Only 19% of 2024 Trump voters support U.S. involvement.

Trump Downplays Wounds Soldiers Suffered in Iran Missle Attack

“I heard that they had headaches. And a couple of other things.”

— President Trump appeared to brush off the traumatic brain injuries and concussion-like injuries sustained by U.S. service members after Iran’s missile strike on a military base in Iraq, saying he did not consider them to be “very serious injuries,” ABC News reports.

Trump Threaten Europe with Tariffs Over Iran

25%

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%