IGA POLL: ‘IRAN WAR IS BROADLY UNPOPULAR’: Polls are not always accurate, but when it comes to how Americans are feeling about the Iran War, the surveys are at least consistent. “The war with Iran is broadly unpopular — many doubt whether the fight is worth the costs and say it affects their vote,” is the top-line conclusion of the latest poll conducted at the end of April by the Institute for Global Affairs. TRUMP: ‘I DON’T REALLY HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE’: Trump knows he’s fighting two wars: one with Iran, and a second on the public relations front, where Americans are growing more and more disillusioned the longer the war drags on.
“Everyone tells me it’s unpopular, but I think it’s very popular,” Trump told reporters as he conducted a tour of the White House ballroom construction site. “When they hear that it’s having to do with nuclear weapons or weapons that could take out Los Angeles, could take out major cities very quick, when they hear that, you know … they understand.”
Despite the lack of evidence that after last June’s B-2 bomber strikes Iran was anywhere close to reconstituting its nuclear weapons program, Trump has been trying to sell the American public on the scary scenario that Iran was not only weeks away from making a bomb, but also weeks away from using it. “They would start with Israel, they would blow it up, and they would blow it up fast — but they would blow it up. And I’ll tell you what, they’d go after Saudi Arabia, they’d go after Kuwait, they’d go after UAE, they’d go after Qatar, they’d go after — I think they’d go after the entire Middle East.”
