Trump team 'frantically' trying to avoid admitting they’re 'a bunch of morons': expert

U.S. President Donald Trump looks down as he participates in a call with service members of U.S. Army, JTF-Southern Border, 101st Airborne Division (Fort Huachuca, AZ), U.S. Marine Corps, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion (REUTERS)

An international policy expert says it’s no longer a matter of which direction President Donald Trump plans to take his self-started Middle Eastern war — it’s about a president desperately trying to hide the truth of his stupidity.

“… [E]ven the war supporters are realizing that this was a horrible idea,” Duss told Wajahat Ali on Ali’s “Left Hook” podcast. “And I think this is a particularly dangerous moment because now they're frantically trying to find ways not to have to admit that they're a bunch of morons, which means that they're going to argue for escalation. There's no other option.”

“I mean, the other option is admitting that they were wrong. And as we know, that is something that does not happen when you're a Washington war hawk who loves war. The only answer is more war. If the war didn't work, it's because we didn't war hard enough,” said Duss, who served as president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and later as foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) before becoming executive vice president of the Center for International Policy.

Ali pointed out that “no administration in recent history was dumb enough to strike Iran despite Netanyahu’s perpetual whining, bullying, and bulls—— claims … before Trump,” and now Trump is clearly getting nervous, according to a Monday press conference.

It’s the kind of self-doubt that comes of “being dog-walked” into “an illegal war without an exit plan,” Ali said.

“I don't know if you saw his bizarre, rambling, dementia-fest — no offense to people with dementia — but he literally doesn't make sense,” said Ali. “He contradicted himself yesterday, Matt, repeatedly. He says the war is ‘almost over.’ We accomplished everything. But then again, [he says] ‘I don't know. We probably need to go a bit longer.’ So, I'm like, just choose one, man. Pick one lane!”

“He clearly is a little bit nervous,” agreed Duss. “We saw him starting to prep a kind of blame story about, ‘well, Steve and Jared and Marco and Pete, they all told me that they were about to attack.’ [But] I don't take comfort in that. I don't think he's really ready to exit this. But if he does decide that he needs to pull the plug on this, it would be because he's losing money and too many rich Americans are losing money.”

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