'Weekend Update' Tears Apart Trump's Iran Attack Using This Key 'Expert' Analysis
During Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update," host Colin Jost mocked President Trump over the U.S. and Israel's military strikes on Iran by replaying a 2011 clip in which Trump accused then-President Obama of wanting to start a war with Iran to boost his reelection prospects. Jost used the resurfaced footage to draw a pointed contrast with Trump's current actions, noting that Trump is now facing poor polling numbers similar to what he once attributed to Obama. Trump has defended the strikes as necessary, claiming Iran was developing nuclear weapons that could reach the U.S., though that assertion is not supported by U.S. intelligence.
“Weekend Update” host Colin Jost haunted President Donald Trump over his past talk on Iran after the U.S. and Israel’s deadly strikes on the country.
“This attack might be a bad idea, I don’t know, I’m not really an expert on Iran. So let’s hear from someone who can explain why we might’ve done it,” said Jost, teeing up a 2011 clip of Trump that has resurfaced on social media.
“Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate,” warned Trump of then-President Barack Obama in the clip, part of a history of similar claims he made about his political foe at the time.
“He’s weak, and he’s ineffective.”
The host of the “SNL” news segment nodded in agreement to the clip, remarking, “Yeah, yeah. See, now that’s the Trump I voted for!”
Back in 2011, Trump charged Obama with wanting to attack Iran in order to win a second term and supported his theory by declaring that Obama’s poll numbers were in a “tailspin” at the time.
Trump — who is wading in abysmal polling numbers — has defended Saturday’s deadly military offensive as necessary and claimed that Iran was building nuclear weapons that could “soon” reach the U.S., though such a claim isn’t backed up by U.S. intelligence.
Watch more of “Weekend Update” in the clips below.
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