Pete Buttigieg Dismantles Pro-Trump Pundit On Iran War: ‘Well, That Worked!’ | EUROtoday

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday leisurely dismantled claims from CNBC host Joe Kernen, who argued President Donald Trump needed to launch his conflict on Iran to stop the nation from creating a nuclear weapon.

The “Squawk Box” co-host argued the disastrous conflict, which was quickly halted Tuesday for a two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire however led Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, “is not over yet” — and will ultimately see Trump reach reopening the very important strait.

“So the best-case scenario is the strait being open?” Buttigieg requested Kernen. “The strait was open before they started this.”

About one-fifth of the world’s oil passes by means of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran successfully closed to U.S. ships after the conflict started, leading to hovering fuel costs for Americans and threatening to set off a world power disaster. The U.S. and Iran are at the moment negotiating.

Kernen conceded Friday that the strait was open earlier than Trump launched his conflict in February, however claimed Iran was “close to having nuclear weapons” earlier than he did. The conflict has price at the very least 13 U.S. navy service members and greater than 2,000 Iranians their lives.

Former President Barack Obama famously opted for diplomatic measures to take care of the matter throughout his time in workplace, sending then-Secretary of State John Kerry to barter the Iran nuclear deal — through which they vowed to not develop a nuclear weapon — in 2015.

“We had other ways of dealing with that,” Buttigieg informed Kernen about Trump’s conflict, just for the pro-Trump pundit to answer: “Like what, Obama’s way?”

“Well, that worked!” Buttigieg countered.

Kernen, who famous earlier within the present that Iran had lied about their ranges of nuclear proliferation on the time, rejected Buttigieg’s level. He acknowledged merely, “That did not work.” Buttigieg finally debunked that declare with one easy query, nevertheless.

He requested, “Did they get a nuclear weapon under Obama?”

Kernen argued that Iran was “close enough, within months,” seemingly echoing a decades-long declare from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has alleged as a lot on such a frequent foundation that “The Daily Show” compiled a prolonged montage of his warnings.

Netanyahu’s claims within the video span from 1995 to 2025.

Buttigieg argued earlier within the present that Trump’s messaging has been disastrous, because the MAGA chief infamously claimed final yr that U.S. strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear weapons program — solely to launch a now-regional conflict in February.

“But the point is, they have been stopped from getting anywhere near a nuclear weapon [under Obama],” he mentioned. “And last year, the president assured us that he ended their nuclear ambitions. If he wants to come clean with the American people that he failed to do that, he has to say that.”