His weekend posts about Iran and Israel avoid reality.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 30, 2025.
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I’ve contended a number of times that President Trump does not understand radical Islam (more accurately, sharia supremacism). Indeed, to repeat what I said in the context of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, Trump’s “transactional” view that the key to unlocking all disputes is financial interest is facile and disproved by history recent and remote.
His posts from the weekend illustrate this willful blindness yet again. Yesterday morning, the president said:
About the Author
Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
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I’ve contended a number of times that President Trump does not understand radical Islam (more accurately, sharia supremacism). Indeed, to repeat what I said in the context of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, Trump’s “transactional” view that the key to unlocking all disputes is financial interest is facile and disproved by history recent and remote.
His posts from the weekend illustrate this willful blindness yet again. Yesterday morning, the president said:
About the Author
Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
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