Boiling after Donald Trump's speech. “It alienates allies and ignores problems.”
After Trump's speech, the Internet was flooded with comments from politicians, the media and the military.
Former U.S. ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder said the speech failed to answer key questions, including why the United States does not cease military operations in Iran when Iran's nuclear capabilities, navy and missiles, as Trump says, have been destroyed.
“I don't understand why we should feel safer, and I think the American public has similar doubts,” he told the BBC.
Democratic US senator Chuck Schumer also criticized the US president's speech. “Donald Trump's actions in Iran will be considered one of the greatest political mistakes in the history of our country,” he said. In his opinion, Trump “fails to clearly define goals, alienates allies and ignores the everyday problems Americans face.”
“Vile, terrifying and sinister”
Another Democratic senator, Chris Van Hollen, said that Trump lied “as always.” — More than two weeks ago he said: “we won.” If so, why are we still there? [w Iranie]? What's next? The only thing we can count on is more lies from Trump. This delusional man is a danger to our country and the world, he said.
Democratic Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari shared a fragment of the speech where Trump talks about “bringing Iran to the Stone Age, where it belongs.” “He's talking about a country with 90 million inhabitants. It's vile, terrifying and sinister,” the politician wrote.
— I don't think there was a single American who watched the speech [Trumpa]he felt there was a clear plan [prowadzenia wojny na Bliskim Wschodzie]a clear timetable of actions, that we are safer, Melissa Toufanian, an adviser to former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, told the BBC. She said American audiences are probably “more confused” about war with Iran after Trump's speech.
“A breakthrough moment”
However, Republican representatives assessed the speech positively. Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News that Trump “has outlined goals that would, over time, destroy this regime's ability to [irańskiego] to survive,” adding that Iran has a choice between concluding an agreement or further bombing.
– If you don't agree to this deal, we will destroy everything you need to get back up. “It was a turning point in the campaign,” Graham said.
“Back to the Stone Age,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth wrote on X, also referring to Trump's words.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise praised the president's speech. “Tonight, President Trump made an extremely compelling case for the nation for Operation Epic Fury,” he said.
“The Iranian regime's long history of terrorizing and murdering Americans shows why it was necessary to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons,” he added.
According to the British station Sky News, the most important quote from Trump's speech was the statement that in the war with Iran, “America's basic goals are coming closer to realization.” According to the broadcaster, Israel will probably disagree with this statement and will consider the war goals mentioned by the US president “to be completely incomplete.” “Israel will believe that the war must continue,” we read on the Sky News website.
— Trump's speech gave us a taste of what we already knew […]; he largely recited the same statements he had previously made, commented Niall Stanage, deputy editor-in-chief of the American website The Hill, in an interview with Sky News.
He stressed that Trump's “apparent inability to provide a clear justification” for US involvement in the war with Iran is problematic for the US president. In his opinion, rising fuel prices, which are the result of this war, are a “pressure point” for Trump in the context of his popularity among voters. As he noted, the US president will not be able to “withstand this pressure for long.”
