David Ignatius: Trump just can’t figure out a way to end the war in Iran
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Iran was the bully of the Middle East. |
| 0:03.0 | They're not the bully anymore. |
| 0:05.0 | With the help of everyone here today, |
| 0:08.0 | this has been by far the most successful first year |
| 0:11.0 | of any administration in the history of our country, |
| 0:14.0 | acknowledged by everybody. |
| 0:19.0 | To begin with, I ended eight wars. |
| 0:21.8 | And it may be a little early to say this, but if we add Iran and Lebanon, that will be 10 wars ended. |
| 0:28.8 | And many, many millions of lives saved. |
| 0:32.7 | Think of how many lives we've saved. |
| 0:36.3 | Wow. |
| 0:38.2 | You know, it's so early on Monday morning to sort through all of that. |
| 0:45.9 | But I mean, he says it's a war that everybody supports a new poll shows. |
| 0:53.3 | What older polls show that only about one out of three Americans think this war is a war |
| 0:59.2 | that we should be involved that only 33% of Americans support the war, 67% do not. |
| 1:05.4 | Regarding, again, he has this running tally in his head that nobody around him stops him on him. |
| 1:12.5 | All the wars that he has stopped. |
| 1:14.5 | Well, Mika, you know, he started quite a few wars too. |
| 1:20.3 | I mean, it's kind of like when I'm watching the Red Sox and I kick the iced tea, the sweet tea all over the carpet. And, you know, |
| 1:33.2 | I do it like five or six times. And I say, Mika, I have, do you know, I have, myself, I have cleaned up the |
| 1:38.9 | carpet five, six times just over the past two weeks. You go, well, that's fine, Joe, but you've actually... |
| 1:47.0 | Okay, so maybe I spilled a tea and you're kind of not to clean it up. |
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