NBC’s Seth Meyers is not happy that President Trump is taking credit for ending the war between Israel and Iran, which he falsely claimed on Tuesday's edition of Late Night that Trump started and is now trying to claim he deserves praise for simply cleaning up his own mess.
Introducing a clip of first term White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News, Meyers claimed, “So, Trump claimed there was a ceasefire in the war he started. Now, most normal human beings might think to themselves, ‘You don't get credit for cleaning up your own mess unless you're under the age of five,’ but for Trump supporters this supposed ceasefire was the single greatest achievement of any president ever.”
It is simply false to say that Trump started the war. A progressive like Meyers could try to claim that Israel started the war, while a more sophisticated thinker may say this is just a new phase of the same war that began with Hamas’s October 7 attack, which set a series of events in motion that saw the Gaza War expand to Lebanon and Hezbollah, Yemen and the Houthis, Syria, and Iran itself.
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