Tucker Carlson: Trump betrayed America First | The Economist

Do you think Donald Trump has betrayed America  first? I think that this war is something that he. promised he wouldn't do, not once, but countless  times. And until YouTube is banned, we'll be able. to prove that. And the idea behind it, um, is not  only contrary to America First, um, it may be its. inverse. There's no argument that changing the  regime in Iran helps the United States. And if. there is an argument, I'd love to hear it. And  by the way, if that argument is sensible and.

convincing, I will support it. All I care about  is the United States. But I haven't heard that. argument a single time. All I've heard is the kind  of tiresome fear-mongering about nuclear weapons, which Iran did not have. It's insulting actually  even to make that argument to me that Iran's. nuclear programme posed such a threat to the  United States 3 weeks ago that we had to launch. a full-scale war against them. No one's even  arguing that because it's stupid and the facts. don't support it. So why did we do this when we  did it? Because Israel wanted to do it. They chose.

the timing here. No one disputes that. And timing  in war as in life is a lot of it and it determines. outcome. And it's they hadn't thought through what  was going to happen next. The Israelis hadn't and. we hadn't because we didn't have time to. So it  sounds to me like you think he has betrayed it. This war is clearly contrary to what he promised  and contrary to the idea that your leaders should. put your interests before those of foreigners.  Period. We put Israel's interest before ours.

Trump did that. Bibi's not in wasn't elected  president of my country. My president was. I supported him obviously voted for him. But um  yeah, the question is whether the person who makes. the ultimate decision, which would be President  Trump, should have pushed back. That's it. Of. course. Of course. Bush. Trump should have pushed  back as previous presidents have done to some. extent, some very limited extent. George W. Bush  didn't push back. We went up in the Iraq war and. now everyone pretends, oh, that was had nothing  to do with Israel. I was there. I was talking to.

Bush. That's not true. That's a lie. And that's  why it's so important from my perspective to say. out loud what is true before history is rewritten  and disappears. And it's lying and it gets us. here because we say, "Oh, no, no, no. Lobbying  efforts had no effect." Really? Can we say that. about our pharmaceutical policy? No. Everybody  understands that every policy a large government. makes including ours is influenced by various  stakeholders who were affected by the policy. But this is the one error we have to be like no  it had it had nothing to do with the fact that.

his biggest donors were pushing him to do this or  the Bibi visited seven times in one year. Are you. joking? I'm not going to play along with the lies  anymore. I don't hate Jews. I don't hate Israel. I love my country. This has happened yet again.  I can give you a whole list of previous times. where it's happened. And I think we need to know  what happened so we don't hurt ourselves further.