Trump Tirades on Iran Take Ugly, Sadistic Turn as Crushing Polls Hit

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Donald Trump’s tirades about Iran are getting uglier. He let out one rant that positively relished U.S. military domination of Iran and seethed about the media’s refusal to acknowledge his greatness. He unleashed a second tirade that dripped with bizarre triumphalism, angrily declaring the war “won,” which raises questions about why it’s continuing. And Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a rant that was drenched in bloodlust. This comes as a new Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll finds Trump’s approval at 37 percent and underwater on every issue, with majorities questioning the war’s most basic premises. That mirrors other new polls from CBS, Reuters, and NBC showing him in trouble and a recent Quinnipiac poll finding his coalition fracturing over the war. We talked to G. Elliott Morris, who runs the Strength in Numbers Substack. He explains why all the bloodlust is working against Trump, why public support for this war is so historically low, and why Democrats are leading comfortably in the battle for the House. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.2	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:32.9	Donald Trump just offered some really strange new comments about his war against Iran. He declared it already won and boasted endlessly about the U.S. military's domination of Iran, while seething at
1:39.7	the news media for refusing to acknowledge his greatness. Pete Hegseth followed up with some similar comments,
1:46.6	and in his case, they were drenched in bloodlust. Do Trump and Hegseth think the American people
1:52.7	like this kind of unbridled enthusiasm for violence and domination? Some new polling analysis
1:59.2	shows yet again just how unpopular this war truly is, yet there's no trace of any concern about any of this from Trump and Hegeseth.
2:07.9	What if the bloodlust is working against them?
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