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However the battle between far-left and supposedly moderate Democratic contenders ends, the beneficiary may be the Republican candidate.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that an eight-member election-integrity team will monitor the April 12 Hungarian parliamentary elections. The vote will determine the next government and prime minister.
Judicial Watch previously sent an election observer team to Hungary for its 2022 election – independently monitoring voting at 52 precincts across 27 locations in and around Budapest.
Judicial Watch’s team has been certified to serve as international election observers.
The team is led by Robert Popper, who previously served in the Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where he managed voting rights investigations and litigation across dozens of states. Popper established the organization’s election monitoring program. He is a veteran poll observer for the Department of Justice. The team also includes lawyers who have experience monitoring elections for Judicial Watch.
Judicial Watch’s monitoring methodology emphasizes ballot access, meaning the ability of citizens to easily register and cast a vote in an election. It particularly focuses on recording specific Election Day problems concerning unlawful electioneering, arbitrary variations in the rules for voting, aggressive voting assistance, unusual ballot handling, voter intimidation or confrontations, and voter “turnaways.” Turnaways occur when a voter leaves a polling place without voting due to administrative problems, long lines, technical issues, or other circumstances.
This methodology contrasts with the approach adopted by other international observers, like the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which has criticized the Hungarian elections from an ideological perspective based on value judgments about matters like media bias.
“Judicial Watch’s election integrity team can play a key role in providing independent and expert monitoring of Hungary’s historic elections,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Judicial Watch is partnering with Liberty Coalition for a Free and Fair Election, which is working with independent experts from various parts of the world to provide vigorous oversight over Hungary’s elections.
Judicial Watch has also monitored elections in the U.S. to ensure compliance with state and federal laws.
As part of its ongoing election integrity efforts, Judicial Watch’s trained observers monitored polling sites in Wisconsin in November 2024. Separately, Judicial Watch ran an Internet hotline for voters in all states to report suspicions of election and voter fraud.
Judicial Watch’s legal team monitored the polls in Georgia in 2022, as well as Virginia in 2016, and New Hampshire in 2014.
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The liberal media coverage of the approaching deadline imposed by Donald Trump for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction of their infrastructure, featured non-stop attacks on the President, with accusations of pending war crimes. When the ceasefire was announced on Tuesday night, instead of giving Trump credit, they trashed him for the agreement itself, and now they’re back to repeating claims that Trump was led into the war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This is being dredged up again in a book, Regime Change, due out in June, which claims that is the case. And on Wednesday’s edition of Fox’s The Five, liberal Panelist Jessica Tarlov couldn’t wait to unload on Israel, and it didn’t go over well.

TARLOV: The linchpin story on this, and we have been tracing this particular plot line since the beginning, is what Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman reported yesterday in the excerpt of their book…..And it’s  about a meeting on February 11 in the Situation Room and Bibi Netanyahu was there. He was sitting at the table with our leadership, and he pitched them on this war. Donald Trump was interested. Pete Hegseth was interested. Everybody else — Ratcliffe, ‘farcical’, Rubio, ‘it’s BS’, General Caine, ‘standard operating procedure for Israelis, they oversell’, Susie Wiles, ‘we can’t be dragged into another Middle Eastern war.’ 

Israel pushed us to do this….When Rubio came out and he said the truth to the gaggle of reporters, the imminent threat was not against us, it was something that was happening for Israel, is the core piece of this. 

It’s no surprise that Tarlov, who recently admitted that she, relies upon reporters who have had long careers in foreign policy when she doesn’t know something, would be relying on a yet unpublished book to trash Netanyahu and Israel.  She also failed to mention that Rubio had corrected his first statement on the reason for the war. Fellow panelist Paul Mauro wasn’t pleased with what he had been hearing.

MAURO: I find this to be a very, very dangerous meme.  This idea that Israel is leading Donald Trump around by the nose. He doesn’t know any better, he didn’t see Bibi coming, and all of a sudden now, a guy who doesn’t want to listen to anybody on anything because he’s the most powerful  person in the world is falling for deceptions from one of our allies. 

That was nothing compared to Greg Gutfeld’s reaction to Tarlov’s outrageous claims. 

GUTFELD: I am old enough to remember when Jews as a puppeteer was some kind of an anti-Semitic trope. But all of a sudden, that’s just  gone by the wayside. The Jews are controlling us. I thought I blew that out of the water last week when I said that Trump had been talking about doing the exact same stuff to Iran for decades. Including going after Kharg Island. Here we are going no, it wasn’t his idea, it was the Jews, the Jews!

Later, the crew played a brief clip of far left radical streamer/influencer Hasan Piker, which included his downplaying the rape of Israeli civilians on October 7th, his disdain for America, and his message to an older woman who suffered under a Communist government.

PIKER CLIP: None of this justifies that Palestinians have a right to dignity, a right to emancipation, a right to live [bleep] free lives, free from this occupation. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if [bleep] rapes happened on October 7. I don’t have any sort of patriotism in my heart, for America. America deserved 9/11. [Bleep] Up you stupid [bleep] idiotic old lady. Suck my [bleep], old lady.

Now you might think that after being taken to task by Gutfeld and Mauro, when given a chance, Tarlov would denounce Piker, and express disgust at those in her party like Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from Michigan, who have cozied up to him, but you would be dead wrong. 

TARLOV: Well, it’s not,  you have to watch the full tape of it. He is saying what Dana was saying, which he thinks that Israel’s response is not proportionate to what was done to Israel.

GUTFELD: He has no right to say that.

TARLOV: Then you should just not like him. And a lot of people don’t like him.

GUTFELD: You do?

TARLOV:: It’s not really about like or don’t like thing. 

Was Jessica Tarlov having a particularly bad day, or did she go much further in revealing her true, vile, radical leftist views than she has in the past? She ended up laying out a gushy profile in The New York Times as an explanation for his appeal to young men. 

After weeks of threats, taunts, bombs, dramatic rescues, and careening markets, the world is holding its breath as the two-week ceasefire begins in the Middle East. The United States and Israel inflicted a significant amount of damage on Iran during the most recent campaign, but the negotiations set to begin later this week in Pakistan could determine the victor of this stage in the conflict.
These negotiations can only occur if the ceasefire holds, which is already under question. All sides seem to agree on the broad outlines of the deal, that hostilities will pause for two weeks and the Strait of Hormuz will open during that period. But Iran now claims that the deal requires Israel to stop its campaign against Hezbollah, and Israel and the United States do not agree. If Iran’s leaders attempt to close the Strait, that will violate one of President Trump’s red lines and, presumably, restart the fighting.
If Iran caves on its attempt to shield Hezbollah from its foolhardy decision to attack Israel again, the real negotiations can proceed. Publicly, Iran has stuck to a 10-point plan that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed Wednesday as “fundamentally unserious, unacceptable and completely discarded. It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team.” The mullahs seem to have sent a different set of points that Trump called “a workable basis on which to negotiate” in his ceasefire announcement. “It’s not good enough,” he added the next morning, “but it’s a very significant step.”
Those terms are not yet known, but Trump’s demands are. The ceasefire will hold, “subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz.” Wednesday morning, he added “there will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove” the nuclear material buried in last summer’s strike.
Forcing Iran’s rulers to give up their nuclear program and agree to inspections that verify their continued compliance would be a significant victory. For decades, Iran’s rulers have claimed that they have the right to enrich uranium. According to the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, they used that supposed right to stockpile enough uranium that was just shy of weapons-grade to make 10 bombs. Other parts of the regime have researched how to use that material to make nuclear weapons. The knowledge of how to make a nuclear bomb cannot be fully removed, but the material needed to do so can.
This would not fully blunt the threat to the Strait, but it would dull it. The United States can demonstrate that closing the Strait is a losing proposition for Iran without necessarily forcing it open in combat. The regime has prioritized the nuclear program for decades over nearly everything else, especially the wellbeing of the Iranian people. Abandoning it despite having blocked the Strait would reveal to all that the regime fears continued American and Israeli bombardment far more than many believe. Threats to the Strait could still spike oil prices at inopportune times, much as they did before the war, but they would be a dead man’s hand, not a trump card.
A victory of this kind would not bring true peace to the region, but it would constrain Iran’s options. Iran had depended on its legions of terrorist lackeys and missile arsenal to deter the United States and Israel from halting its nuclear program. But the proxies have had little impact on this round of fighting. Gen. Dan Caine said that over 80 percent of Iran’s missile facilities are “gone,” the United States “hit” a similar share of its nuclear industrial base, and “attacked” about 90 percent of Iran’s weapons factories. If Iran’s minions are neither reliable nor effective, its long-range missiles depleted and irreplaceable, and its threat to close the Strait defeatable, the mullahs will need to find new options to threaten their neighbors and the United States.
This would buy time to protect the Strait or find alternatives to it. Iran will likely double down on relatively inexpensive drones and smaller boats, but Ukraine has already concluded deals with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Jordan to equip them with countermeasures. Iran attacked Saudi Arabia’s pipeline to the Red Sea shortly after the ceasefire went into effect, and the oil-producing Arab states will likely expand their overland options for bypassing the Strait.
A denuclearized and diminished Iran ruled by fanatics would still be an enemy of Americans, their friends, and their allies, but it would pose a far more manageable threat than the one that greeted Trump at his inauguration. Stopping Iran from getting the bomb would also fulfill one of Trump’s lifelong goals. That would be a victory worthy of celebration.
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New Yorkers will have to seek solace in the notion that their hopelessly racist neighbors and their city’s legacy of bigotry have thwarted their wildest dreams.

Imagine having the gall to invite someone who thinks a cabal of people were starting wild fires with space lasers onto a major cable news outlet to call someone else crazy. Well, that’s exactly what CNN’s The Situation Room did on Thursday when they invited former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on the show to attack President Trump and call for his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. She also claimed Trump was close to launching nukes against Iran.

Co-host Wolf Blitzer made it clear at the top of the interview that they brought Greene on for one reason, to suggest Trump was insane and he needed to be removed: “Congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us. I know you recently called for the president to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution after that threat that he made about destroying the whole civilization of Iran.”

Blitzer perfectly teed her up to explain why Trump was a madman threatening the world:

BLITZER: The President has a long history of shocking and unprecedented social media posts. Why was this the final straw for you?

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): Because it’s absolute madness. How can any person that is mentally stable call for an entire civilization of people to be murdered, to be wiped out, to never come back again? That’s what the president called for.

And that that shows that there’s serious instability in his thinking, that he would not only would he even say that in a private room, perhaps with his advisors, but actually go to his megaphone, his Truth Social, and post that for the entire country and the entire world.

Claiming Trump was “out of control,” she called on the “people within the administration” to “step up, take responsibility and rein this in.”

 

CNN shows off their new-found respect for now-anti-Trump MTG and they give her a platform for her to call on Trump’s cabinet to remove him from office via the 25th Amendment. She claims Trump was going to use nukes on Iran for before J.D. Vance stepped in:
WOLF BLITZER:… pic.twitter.com/dUbkYFwJip
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 9, 2026
 

Continuing to demonstrate their newfound respect for someone the network had chided in the past, co-host Pamela Brown prompted Greene to counter the Trump administration’s defense that the President was just using “tough rhetoric”:

BROWN: The White House is claiming it was the President’s tough rhetoric that brought Iran to its knees. What do you say to that?

GREENE: I’m sorry. That’s not – that’s not tough rhetoric. It’s it’s insanity. It’s calling for the murder of an entire civation [sic] of men, women, children of – of innocent civilians. That’s not – that is not what I would call proper or even decent – um, negotiations.

Without evidence, Greene suggested Trump was on the verge of launching nuclear weapons against Iran:

Presumably, we can only presume that that would happen through nuclear bombs, because that’s the type of horrific weaponry that would be used to wipe out an entire civilization. So no, I pushed back on that. And I think the American people fully agree. Everyone was out raged.

Blitzer followed up by wondering: “[D]o you genuinely believe President Trump had the intention of killing Iran’s entire population of more than 90 million people?”

“So I can only take him at his word because those are the words that he spoke to the entire world,” Greene answered, in part.

Greene would later go on to commend other kooky people like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones for saying similarly negative things about Trump. And that’s the crux of why CNN had her on.

The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:

CNN’s The Situation Room
April 9, 2026
10:34:52 a.m. Eastern

WOLF BLITZER: Congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us. I know you recently called for the president to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution after that threat that he made about destroying the whole civilization of Iran.

The President has a long history of shocking and unprecedented social media posts. Why was this the final straw for you?

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): Because it’s absolute madness. How can any person that is mentally stable call for an entire civilization of people to be murdered, to be wiped out, to never come back again? That’s what the president called for.

And that that shows that there’s serious instability in his thinking, that he would not only would he even say that in a private room, perhaps with his advisors, but actually go to his megaphone, his Truth Social, and post that for the entire country and the entire world.

And I’m – this is – it’s – it’s unreal. This should never be tolerated. Um, I know that’s a, it’s a very difficult, hard stretch to – to see it actually coming through, but the conversation needs to be had and he’s out of control. And people within the administration need to step up, take responsibility and rein this in.

PAMELA BROWN: And administration officials, as we’ve heard, have said that he was ready to follow through with this threat. Just hours after he made it, he announced this two week cease fire. That’s still very tenuous at the moment. The White House is claiming it was the President’s tough rhetoric that brought Iran to its knees. What do you say to that?

GREENE: I’m sorry. That’s not – that’s not tough rhetoric. It’s it’s insanity. It’s calling for the murder of an entire civation [sic] of men, women, children of – of innocent civilians. That’s not – that is not what I would call proper or even decent – um, negotiations.

There should be negotiations happening. And they did happen. And J.D. Vance, the vice president, was the one that helped bring that cease fire. It doesn’t seem to be much of a cease fire, but it is supposedly a cease fire. And that happened through negotiations through J.D. Vance. And J.D. Vance did not go to his social media and threaten to murder every single man, woman and child in Iran.

Presumably, we can only presume that that would happen through nuclear bombs, because that’s the type of horrific weaponry that would be used to wipe out an entire civilization. So no, I pushed back on that. And I think the American people fully agree. Everyone was out raged.

BLITZER: I just want to be clear, congresswoman, do you genuinely believe President Trump had the intention of killing Iran’s entire population of more than 90 million people? If Iran had not agreed to a cease fire? Is the U.S. military, for example, even capable of that?

GREENE: I don’t think that our good men and women in the U.S. military would want to even carry something like that out. That’s –  that’s the other thing. Um, and I think that’s important to point out.

We have, we, our men and women in the military are the greatest among us. They’re serving our country, defending our freedoms. And I’m so grateful to them and I support them so much. But we should never have a commander-in-chief that would call for for the great men and women of the United States military to wipe out an entire civation [sic] – civilization and put that on their shoulders.

And, you know, we’ve already got so many veterans that live with PTSD every single day in America – um, that that can’t sleep at night with terrible nightmares of, of the wars that they fought in, in foreign lands, foreign wars, and foreign lands – um, not for America, for foreign countries, and foreign purposes. And this is what the president was talking about.

So I can only take him at his word because those are the words that he spoke to the entire world.

(…)

On Thursday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough eagerly enlisted conservative voices—from Fox to Megyn Kelly to even Tucker Carlson—to do his anti-Trump dirty work.

File it under: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The segment began with Mika Brzezinski playing a clip of Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones arguing Trump has yet to achieve his stated objectives in Iran.

“We have not reached any of those objectives,” Jones asserted, noting that Iran continues enriching uranium, refusing intrusive inspections, and advancing its missile program.

Scarborough seized on the clip, portraying it as representative of broader concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Brzezinski then introduced a lengthy clip of Megyn Kelly delivering a bleep-filled tirade against Trump’s social media posts on Iran.

WATCH: Scarborough Cites Fox, Kelly, Carlson to Hit Trump on Iran pic.twitter.com/DaRfmnpQ6H
— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) April 9, 2026

Amid widespread criticism of Trump’s use of an f-bomb in his Truth Social post on Iran, Kelly—ironically—delivered a profanity-laced rant of her own.

Scarborough then underscored just how eager he was to amplify the criticism, approvingly citing not only Kelly but Tucker Carlson as voices Trump supposedly “listens to.”

Yes—Tucker Carlson. A figure long treated by liberal media as beyond the pale suddenly became a credible authority the moment he criticized Trump, just like Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

“Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson…came out and just said, Mr. President…you don’t say this,” Scarborough said, lamenting that Republican leaders hadn’t followed suit.

Having assembled his hand-picked chorus of conservative critics, Scarborough used it to advance a familiar media narrative: that Trump is losing his base. Never mind polls showing that Trump voters overwhelmingly support the war with Iran. 

Citing unnamed friends and family, Scarborough claimed Trump supporters are now “exhausted” and less likely to turn out in 2026.

In other words, a few selectively curated clips—from figures the liberal media typically derides—were suddenly repurposed as proof of a broader political collapse.

For Scarborough, conservative voices are credible—so long as they’re criticizing Trump.

Here’s the transcript.

MS NOW
Morning Joe
4/9/26
6:50 am EDT

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Ten minutes before the top of the hour. We’re seeing some interesting reactions in conservative media to President Trump’s handling of the war with Iran. 

Here’s Fox and Friends co-host Lawrence Jones acknowledging that Trump has so far not been able to achieve any of his demands. 

LAWRENCE JONES: That the president’s demands, we have not reached any of those objectives. I have full confidence that the president is going to find some way to make this happen. But he said that we want to dismantle all major nuclear facilities, that has not happened. 

The end of uranium enrichment on the soil, they’re still enriching. The transfer of the enriched uranium stockpiles out of Iran, that hasn’t happened. 

The acceptance of intrusive international inspections, they’re still not willing to do that. And they have not suspended their ballistic missiles program. They’re still firing them off. To stop the production of the long-range missiles. 

That’s just a few of them on the president’s proposal. 

JOE SCARBOROUGH: You know, he actually, what he got to actually, is what, at the end of the day, I think most people that would support this war, the easiest thing to go along with and to agree to is, we can’t have a nuclear Iran. Six presidents have said that. 

So, I think what was important about what you just heard on Fox & Friends there was, again, a focus on the nuclear facilities, on the nuclear enrichment. On the inspections he talked about. And for our allies in the region, they’re the most concerned about Iran’s ability to launch long-range missiles. 

So that is a message I think the president’s probably hearing from a lot of Republicans. 

MIKA: And then there’s this. Earlier in the week, Megyn Kelly harshly criticized President Trump’s social media posts on Iran. 

MEGYN KELLY: I mean, I don’t know about you, but I am sick of this . I’m just, I’m sick of it. Can’t he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the president, all right, “3D chess,” just shut up. 

[Bleeped, apparently “F—ing”] shut up about that [bleeped, apparently “s—“] You don’t threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We’re talking about civilians. This is wrong. It’s wrong. He should not be doing it. I don’t care that it’s a negotiation. His negotiation tactic is to kill an entire country full of civilians, men, women, children? An American president? So that the Strait of Hormuz will be opened? 

It’s just wrong. It’s not hard to say it. It’s not hard to recognize it. I wish he would stop doing this. Like, he can’t negotiate without doing this? What does that say about him? What does that say about the the position that our country is in right now in these negotiations. He’s got to say this? 

He can’t be a dignified, strong leader without threatening a bunch of war crimes? 

SCARBOROUGH: A couple things that are very important for people that watch this show that may never listen to MAGA media or conservative media, however you want to define it. 

The first is, that I think it was very important that people that the president listened to, like Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, came out and just said, Mr. President, we’ve supported you. Tucker Carlson campaigned for the president. But he said, you don’t say this. These are the sort of things you don’t say.

Which, yes, it seems obvious. 

MIKA: Right, but the Republicans don’t seem to be able to do it —

SCARBOROUGH: [Ignoring and talking over Mika] Those are two of the only voices really out saying it. The fact that every Republican senator didn’t come out and say the same exact thing. Maybe more diplomatically, I don’t know. 

MIKA: Starting with the post on Easter Sunday? 

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, the post on Easter Sunday. 

MIKA: And then the civilization post? You don’t have a take on that? 

SCARBOROUGH: [Ignores Mika, continues] The fact that Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson said it, but Republicans that run the Senate didn’t say it, Republicans that run the House didn’t say it, it’s terrible. And again, this will all be written down in history. No one will be able to escape history. They just won’t. So that’s my thing. 

I think another thing that’s very important from what Megyn Kelly said is, it reminds me of so many of my friends and family members who voted for Donald Trump three times, many of whom still support Donald Trump, who will volunteer to me: yes, I voted for him three times. Yes, I would still vote for him instead of voting for any Democrat. But they said, but why does he have to say things like that? 

It exhausts them. And in exhausting them, I think you’re seeing, again, a lot of people who were very enthusiastic to vote for Donald Trump in ’16, ’20, and ’24 losing some of that enthusiasm right now. And they’re not going to come out in ’26, most likely, and vote for Republicans. 

So what she said is echoed by so many rank-and-file Republicans that I know that, that again, are friends and members of my family who, who will say that.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes are so unfunny, even his liberal audience has trouble laughing at them on occasion. One such example occurred on Wednesday when Kimmel tried to employ the famous comedic reversal technique when he wondered how Iran will negotiate with a bunch of “religious fanatics” who “terrorize their own citizens.” Elsewhere, Kimmel congratulated Trump “for chickening out” on his threats ahead of Tuesday’s ceasefire announcement.

Kimmel wondered, “How is this negotiation even going to work? This is a government of religious fanatics who don’t believe in democracy, and they use domestic security forces to terrorize their own citizens. And now we expect Iran to negotiate with them?”

 

Jimmy Kimmel comments on negotiations with Iran with a dud that even his own audience had trouble laughing at, “How is this negotiation even going to work? This is a government of religious fanatics who don’t believe in democracy and they use domestic security forces to terrorize… pic.twitter.com/uo5RZ4fW3b
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) April 9, 2026
 

Amid only a few small laughs from the audience, Kimmel tried to explain himself before giving up, “I—never mind.” It was then that the audience laughed more fully.

It is not the first or even the second time Kimmel has tried to compare Trump to the Iranian regime, but Kimmel continued, “Really the only way this conflict ends is if Iran gives Trump some kind of award, like the Hormuz Peace Prize, you know? He can put it next to the one he got from Hormel Chili.”

Later, Kimmel returned to the idea that Trump had a TACO episode, “But I have to be honest. I don’t like this TACO thing, this ‘Trump always chickens out’ because it puts him in a corner. I congratulate him for chickening out. I think it was the right thing to do. A lot of presidents, after wasting $40 billion and blowing up a school full of children, would stick with it. They would keep going until their demands, the reasons they started this war, were met.”

 

Later, Kimmel adds “I congratulate him for chickening out. I think it was the right thing to do. A lot of presidents, after wasting $40 billion and blowing up a school full of children, would stick with it. They would keep going until their demands, the reasons they started this… pic.twitter.com/IJx3sow1Wv
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) April 9, 2026
 

Before anyone could ask why he brought up the school as if its targeting was intentional, Kimmel kept rolling, “They would keep bombing until they knew for sure that Iran would stop enriching uranium and murdering protestors. But not Donald Trump. Our president—he looked at the price of gas, he looked at the polls, he said, ‘Oops,’ and he tucked his pointy little tail between his porky pink legs and tiptoed right back out to the golf course. Mission accomplished, everyone. That takes guts right there.”

According to Gen. Dan Caine, roughly “80 percent of Iran’s nuclear industrial base was hit” during the war, so maybe the U.S. was able to accomplish more of his goals than the late night comedians would like to give it credit for.

Here is a transcript for the April 8 show:

ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!

4/8/2026

11:40 PM ET

JIMMY KIMMEL: How is this negotiation even going to work? This is a government of religious fanatics who don’t believe in democracy, and they use domestic security forces to terrorize their own citizens. And now we expect Iran to negotiate with them? I—never mind.

Really the only way this conflict ends is if Iran gives Trump some kind of award, like the Hormuz Peace Prize, you know? He can put it next to the one he got from Hormel Chili.

…

But I have to be honest. I don’t like this TACO thing, this “Trump always chickens out” because it puts him in a corner. I congratulate him for chickening out. I think it was the right thing to do. A lot of presidents, after wasting $40 billion and blowing up a school full of children, would stick with it. They would keep going until their demands, the reasons they started this war, were met.

They would keep bombing until they knew for sure that Iran would stop enriching uranium and murdering protestors. But not Donald Trump. Our president—he looked at the price of gas, he looked at the polls, he said, “Oops,” and he tucked his pointy little tail between his porky pink legs and tiptoed right back out to the golf course. Mission accomplished, everyone. That takes guts right there.