All right, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show. It is Wednesday, and Trump says he may or may not join in on the war between Iran and Israel.

As you can see, my big guest today is Jen Rubin of the contrarian. Jen, it's great to see you.

It is great. This is why I love Substack. I invite you over to my house and then you invite me over to your house exactly that's it you know

i make dinner one night you make it the next night we all get to eat you know it's it's fun but no i mean

there's so much going on right now and honestly i i don't know about you but i am getting lots of early

two thousand's flashbacks with all this news about israel and and how, you know, Trump may go into this war.

I was pointing this out on my show yesterday. I was out on the campaign trail with Trump in

2016. And the way he went after George W. Bush and the way he handled the war in Iraq and so it was

blistering. And it was one of the more shocking things I'd ever seen that, you know, Trump going after a Republican president, George W. Bush. But he got away with it and it paid dividends for him. But it's so hypocritical now for Trump to be sort of on the verge of plunging the U.S. into a military conflict in the Middle East. And I'm just curious what your thoughts are on all of this, Jim,

because to me, there's a lot of different ways this can go.

Well, I think it's even worse in a sense because George Bush convinced himself, or at least

his advisors, maybe Dick Cheney, convinced him that Iraq really did have weapons of mass destruction.

Trump knows because his own intelligence services told him that Israel is not on the verge of weaponizing a nuclear weapon.

So he knows that this hurry up and do it, false urgency, false preemptive rationale is wrong.

So he is now just deciding, I think, who knows what he is deciding, whether he wants to be

big man on campus.

You know, presidents often do foreign policy when domestic policy is not going well.

And domestic policy is not going well.

Not going well.

It's a way, a little pick me up after the birthday parade went down the tubes.

It's a way for him to, you know, kind of assert himself and all with this phony rationale.

A week ago, remember, he was telling the Israelis don't attack.

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