Nicolle Wallace blasted conservative media personalities on Tuesday’s “Deadline: White House,” accusing high-profile figures like Megyn Kelly and Laura Ingraham of making excuses for Donald Trump to absolve him of responsibility over his role in the Iran war.
Wallace played a clip from Monday’s “The Ingraham Angle,” during which the Fox News host questioned whether Trump was “fully briefed about the risks” of the military operation in the Persian Gulf region.
“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?” she asked.
“It’s quite convenient,” Wallace said of Ingraham’s remarks. “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, right?”
Wallace said that in the eyes of Trump’s loyal backers, the president “can’t fail.” Instead, “he can only be failed.”
According to the MS NOW host, this kind of behavior isn’t new. “We heard precisely the same narrative from his allies on tariffs, which he’s always loved. On immigration, which he’s always pumped the adrenal glands of. On Greenland, which he’s always been obsessed with. And on the Fed, on judicial nominations and on and on,” she said.
However, Wallace argued that “this particular iteration about whether or not he could ‘take it in’ on 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,” she explained. “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.”
But as Wallace pointed out, the narrative from the Trump-friendly media also “completely contradicts” the one being pushed by the White House. “They’ve all insisted from the beginning that military action in Iran, the war, was a result of Donald Trump’s gut feeling,” she said.
Even if Ingraham’s rationale was correct and “Trump was the victim of a bad briefing,” Wallace said, as commander in chief, he is still responsible.
“Who would have assembled the bad briefing?” she asked. “These are his people. They’re nobody else’s.”
You can watch Wallace’s full analysis in the clip at the top of the page.
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