Trump addresses the nation on Iran and the Supreme Court takes up birthright citizenship.

We'll discuss all this more. On this edition of the editors, I'm Nish Leroy and I'm joined as always, or at least some of the time by the right Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, our old friend Dan Foster and the notorious M.B.D. Michael Brennan Doherty, you are, of course, listening to a Nashville podcast. Our sponsors this episode, our donors trust, Vare, and the University of Austin, more about all of them and due course. For some reason, you're not already following us on a streaming service, by the way. You can find us everywhere from Spotify to Apple Podcasting. If you like what you hear here, please consider giving us a glowing five-star review, wherever you listen to your podcast. If you don't like what you hear here, please forget. I said anything. So MBD, we kind of got Trump's speech that he should

have delivered to the nation upon the inception of the Iran war and said it was an update. It wasn't a

I'm leaving immediately speech, as some people

speculated beforehand that it would be. I think he legitimately hates this Iranian regime.

I think that comes through in pretty much everything he says. I think he enjoys wreaking destruction

on it. That's also pretty obvious.

He made a reference towards the end about bombing them into the Stone Age,

not something you usually hear a president of the United States say,

a phrase associated with the great Curtis LeMay.

He might come up again later.

But for all, and I'll just throw it to you after this observation, for all that the speech

trumpeted American success, American power talked about further wielding American power in more

fearsome ways, knocking out the electricity system in Iran, hitting their oil facilities.

I think it was an implicit admission of powerlessness

regarding three key things. One regime changed. So Trump defined success there saying the

regime's already changed because we killed a lot of their top leaders. But that's just,

that's kind of a silly argument. And it and it's you know we're not changing the regime

at least not by the time the bombs start falling here it seems very unlikely two we're not going

and getting the uranium unless this speech was a huge misdirection he says that's fine because there's

radioactive dust it's hard to get in it would take them months to dig it out and we we can surveil everything they do from the sky. So it's fine. But we're not going to get the uranium because presumably it's too difficult. And then finally, maybe he's job-boning the Europeans, as we talked about a little bit, still here, and just wants to freak everyone out to get more help regarding the Strait of

her moves. But this was a big presidential speech to the nation where he repeated what he said

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