Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York spoke on the Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday about his take on President Donald Trump’s communication regarding the war with Iran.
Host Hugh Hewitt said he thinks Trump has been good about messaging the objective of the battle with Iran in that “they don’t get a nuclear weapon,” but not the why, which is that lunatics can’t have nuclear weapons.
When Hewitt asked York if he thinks Trump “has been good on the second part,” York said, “up until recently, he hasn’t been great on any parts of it. You and I have been talking about this ever since February 28th, when he started this war and really did not explain until after it began what was going on.”
York weighed in after viewing Trump’s meeting with the press outside of the White House before heading off to China.
“He really refined everything down to three sentences, which are ‘Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, preventing that is worth an economic hit, as soon as the war is over the U.S. economy will boom,’” York said. “That’s it, one, two, three, he said it over and over and over again.”
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When Hewitt said his argument is the why, and that Trump has to tell the people, “Pakistan’s got nukes, India’s got nukes, China, the United States, France, England, we’ve got nukes, Russia’s got nukes. Why can’t Iran have nukes? Israel’s got nukes. And the answer is they’re lunatics and they’ll use them. And I think that’s the part that’s missing.”
In response, York said, “Well they could make it a four sentence right now. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon because crazy people cannot have nuclear weapons, that’s it. That is worth an economic hit, as soon as the war is over the economy will boom. You have a comma and a clause and explain the whole darn thing.”