Trump admin ‘going nuts’ after being called out over promoting misleading claim: analysis
The White House lashed out Friday after being called out over its misleading suggestion that the Iran war enjoyed majority support among Americans, and to such an extent that one target of the White House’s fury hit back with a particularly scathing rebuttal.
On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that “Americans agree that Operation Epic Fury is an overwhelming success,” sharing a White House press release that included several polls showing the war’s favorability. As countless critics noted, however, the White House’s release only focused on “MAGA Republicans,” who make up less than 20% of Americans.
Among those critics was former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who called Leavitt a “proud and open liar” for her misleading claim.
In response, “Rapid Response 47,” a political communications account affiliated with President Donald Trump’s political team, lashed out at Mehdi on Friday, calling him a “moron” who was “trembling at the idea that Americans support killing terrorists.”
And on Sunday, Mehdi hit back at Trump’s political team and the White House for “going nuts” over critics “telling the truth about their dumb war” in a scathing rebuttal published in Zeteo.
“The Iran war – started by Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – is now entering its fourth week. It has been an unmitigated disaster from the beginning, and it’s strangling the global economy,” Hasan wrote.
“The president appears to be preparing to deploy US ground troops to Iran, for a mission that looks like sheer suicide. As we’ve reported at Zeteo, the war is starting to tear apart the MAGA elite, and is already a political catastrophe at home for Trump and the Republican Party – and they know it. And America’s allies have decided not to join us on this so-called ‘excursion.’”
When a broader sample of Americans are polled on Trump’s war against Iran, more Americans than not say they want the strikes to stop than to continue, per recent polling from The Washington Post.