Best Podcasts on Trump's Iran Surrender Demand

“Leavitt said that it does not really matter because the U.S. has so successfully, according to the administration, obliterated Iran's capabilities at this point. Its ballistic missile launchers, its drone capabilities, They say the U.S. is really making a dent in those. But at the same time, you know, it is intelligence sharing that is clearly being used to target not only U.S. personnel, but U.S. assets in the region.”

“What the president means is that when he, as commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces, determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the United States of America and the goals of Operation Epic Fury has been fully realized, then Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender. So, folks, things are getting absolutely, absolutely spiraling out of control right now in the region.”

“But today Trump posted to his true social account, there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. Now, the last U.S. war to end in an unconditional surrender was, of course, World War II. And that was followed by decades of U.S. state building in Germany and Japan. But that is how high Trump has set the bar for ending this conflict. And Trump's own White House was so panicked by his new demand that they spent the entire day running around desperately trying to change the definition of the word surrender.”

“Today, Iran will be hit very hard under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death because of Iran's bad behavior are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. So like new civilian populations, who else could you be targeting? You already killed 160 school children in the most tragic way possible. What are these new groups? Pregnant women? The newborn ward at the hospital? Oh wait, that already happened as well.”

“Donald Trump then sends out a post escalating further saying, quote, Iran, which is being beat to hell, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors... Trump says, today, Iran will be hit very hard under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death... What are these new groups? Pregnant women? The newborn ward at the hospital? Oh wait, that already happened as well.”

“At every step when the Iranians reject an American overture, the natural choice of the American president will be escalation and bombing already. I mean, watching statements coming out of the Pentagon, it's shocking. It's like military assistance command Tehran. They're bragging. I mean, Tucker, again, as an American who really was radicalized by the Iraq war, to see the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about how we've already dropped double the munitions of shock and awe, I actually felt like I was going insane because we have learned nothing already.”

“Trump spelled out what he'd do in his book published that year, Time to Get Tough. He wrote, America's primary goal with Iran must be to destroy its nuclear ambitions. Let me put them as plainly as I know how. Iran's nuclear program must be stopped by any and all means necessary, period. We cannot allow this radical regime to acquire a nuclear weapon that they will either use or hand off to terrorists.”

“So earlier today, Donald Trump said Iran must do an unconditional surrender, demands Iran's unconditional surrender. So what does that mean, Caroline? And then she goes, it means when Donald Trump says they surrender, when Donald Trump decides they've surrendered, we say they surrender, regardless of what they actually do. So as our editor-in-chief, Ron Velikowski, writes, so even if they don't surrender, Trump will call it an unconditional surrender and declare victory.”

“So how do you when are when are you when are you done? And are you and so this is Trump saying this is how we'll know when we're done. It interesting because it actually takes it moves us beyond the this this Talmudic parsing of the phrase regime change that we all been doing because it doesn really matter in this sense whether there a regime change or not If the regime were able, were without being able to collapse, able to go to whatever the version of Appomattox is in this scenario, sit down with, you know, General Kane and sign the unconditional surrender papers, it could stay, it could go, it could do whatever.”

“Very early in the morning, Donald Trump posted a deranged message saying that Iran surrendered, which Iran did not surrender. And he said, Iran reached out and said, thank you, Donald Trump, thank you. and they surrender to all of the nations in the Middle East. Let me just read you what Donald Trump said. None of this is true, but I'll read it for you just so you can see how utterly deranged he is.”

“It's intolerable that Iran is the leading sponsor of terrorism around the world. Other presidents felt the same way about President Trump, not just that it was a bad thing, but that it was an intolerable thing. And yet Donald Trump the one who done something about it Now there are extraordinary risks... How long will this last? And I believe that the president could stop now, right? There's no factor that keeps the president... from saying, hey, we degraded on the fronts we wanted to... We're done.”