Nicolle Wallace destroys conservative media for painting Trump as ‘the victim’

MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace blasted conservative media personalities, accusing President Donald Trump’s allies Megyn Kelly and Laura Ingraham of trying to absolve him of responsibility in his own Iran war.

Wallace set up the destruction by playing a clip from Monday’s edition of “The Ingraham Angle,” during which the Fox News host asked whether Trump was “fully briefed about the risks” of the military operation in the Persian Gulf region before launching missile strikes.

“Was he then able to take it all in and understand the complexity of this — how complex it could actually get and further possibilities of casualties or other damage, the difficulty of dealing with these people — or was he told this would be relatively quick in and out?” Ingraham asked.

But Wallace razzed that take, calling it “quite convenient.”

“Apparently, Donald Trump is never wrong. But when he is wrong, when he gets something wrong, as the MAGA newscasters are starting to worry, maybe it must be someone else’s fault,” said Wallace, adding that in the eyes of Trump’s loyal backers, the president “can’t fail.” Instead, “he can only be failed.”

Wallace argued the non-stop pep rally wasn’t anything new, with similar cheerleading following Trump’s push for tariffs, his immigration failures, and his proposal to invade a NATO ally to conquer the island of Greenland, among many other things. But Wallace warned that the situation with Iran “is quite different.”

“One: men and women have died. Two: the MAGA coalition, as we’ve come to understand it over the last nine years, is blowing up before our eyes,” said Wallace. “So this justification that maybe he can’t take in information represents a new, rather insulting, but subtle and ingenious effort to split the difference — maybe to criticize Donald Trump’s acuity and capacity without criticizing the little teddy bear himself.”

And in any case, Wallace said the narrative from the Trump-friendly media “completely contradicts” White House’ claims that U.S. military action in Iran comes straight from “Trump’s gut feeling.”

Even if Ingraham’s take was correct and “Trump was the victim of a bad briefing,” said Wallace, as commander in chief, Trump is still responsible. “Who would have assembled the bad briefing?” she asked. “These are his people. They’re nobody else’s.”