‘President Trump Was Right’: Bernie Sanders Slams MAGA Chief By Quoting The Man Himself | EUROtoday

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday praised President Donald Trump for objecting to any potential new U.S. wars within the Middle East, or reasonably, he famous that the MAGA chief mentioned so beforehand — solely to launch a battle within the Middle East over the weekend.

“President Trump was right in 2020,” Sanders wrote on X whereas sharing a throwback clip of the president.

Trump, whose “America First” ethos of opposing international wars crumbled when he launched strikes Saturday on Iran and killed its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, decried within the April 2020 information briefing what number of taxpayer {dollars} the U.S. has wasted on battle.

“We’ve spent $8 trillion in the Middle East, and we’re not fixing our roads in this country?” Trump mentioned within the clip. “How stupid — how stupid is that? And we’re not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, even, our schools, even? It’s crazy.”

Trump beforehand vowed to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington, D.C., and to “Make America Great Again” by opposing international conflicts and prioritizing home infrastructure tasks.

The battle in Iran has already resulted within the deaths of greater than 787 Iranians, based on the Iranian Red Crescent Society, and not less than six U.S. service members, prompting critics to notice Iran could have posed a hazard to Israel, however to not the U.S.

Sanders obtained widespread help for his put up on X.

“The irony is that ‘Operation Epic Fury’ has already cost an estimated $120 billion in its first four days alone, not including the surging price of oil. We are watching the same ‘forever war’ script play out, but with even higher stakes for the domestic economy,” one person wrote.

Kent Smetters, a preeminent fiscal analyst and director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, advised Fortune that the full financial price of Trump’s strikes may very well be as excessive as $210 billion.

Another social media person argued infrastructure tasks would create “domestic jobs and economic multipliers,” whereas navy spending abroad “benefits defense contractors,” and that the U.S. thus “exports” this financial stimulus elsewhere, “while our own foundation crumbles.”

Trump spent a lot of final yr touting his efforts in ending as much as eight wars and campaigning for a Nobel Peace Prize. He additionally mentioned throughout his victory speech on the eve of his 2024 election win, “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to end wars.”

However, Trump just lately mentioned, “Wars can be fought ‘forever,’ and very successfully.”