In a Sunday morning post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump wrote: “Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democratic Party! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.”
While the jury is still out on the death of Iran, Trump was spot on in his assessment of the Democratic Party whose dangerous agenda has undermined national security as well as the safety and prosperity of U.S. citizens for more than a decade.
During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Dana Bash asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to respond to Trump’s incendiary remark. He angrily replied, “Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut before he gets somebody killed.”
It sounds as if Trump hit a nerve, doesn’t it? But he was right. No enemy could have inflicted more damage on the country than the enemy within.
Jeffries went on to describe the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran as a “reckless war of choice.” (Apparently, he likes the word reckless.) And he spouted all of the current Democratic talking points.
They clearly didn’t anticipate some of the things that have happened, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. What you’re seeing right now are gas prices are through the roof, and that’s adding to an environment in America right now where life has already become too expensive for the American people because of failed policies by Donald Trump.
Asked if he would support the administration’s request for additional funding for the war, Jeffries said:
Well, we’ll have that leadership conversation when we actually have a piece of legislation that is in front of us. But I can tell you, uh, there is strong opposition right now to the notion that this war of choice — that is reckless, that’s costing the American people now more than $30 billion — should continue. We need to move, which we plan on doing in short order, a War Powers Resolution so we can bring this situation to a close.
I would take that as a “no.”
Imagine how different the world might look today if three weeks after President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan, Congress had rushed to pass a War Powers Resolution aimed at “bringing the situation to a close.”
The Democratic Party has become anti-American. Governed by their hatred for Trump, they would rather accept the persistent threat to global stability that Iran has posed for 47 years than risk handing him a political victory.
Democrats and their communications team, the legacy media, have so grossly misrepresented the progress made by the U.S. and Israel over the past few weeks that many Americans believe we are losing the war.
That couldn’t be further from the truth. Even the far-left believes we are winning. Last week, the left-wing, anti-American, and anti-Israeli media outlet Al Jazeera published an article arguing that the U.S.-Israeli strategy against Iran is working and that Trump must stay the course. The author, Muhanad Seloom, an assistant professor of international politics and security at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, noted that “every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.”
He argued:
When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power — its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture — the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.
In a weekend op-ed published by American Greatness, Roger Kimball cited the Monty Python skit about the Black Knight to describe the Left’s refusal to acknowledge the realities on the ground. He wrote, first “King Arthur slices off both [of] the knight’s arms. Then he slices off both his legs. The knight continues to insist that he is winning the fight. ‘Tis but a flesh wound,’ he cries.”
During a speech last week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth put it another way: “And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War II, we’ve decided to share the ocean with Iran. We’ve given them the bottom half.”
Perhaps it is Jeffries himself who should keep his own reckless mouth shut.
Elizabeth writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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