# Trump Calls Iraq War a Mistake and Accuses Bush of Lying About WMDs

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118578559086141771
- Source account: [@kangminlee](https://x.com/kangminlee)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:02
- Published: 2026-11-06
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds) Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake. All right?

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=6) Now, you can take it any way you want, and it took Je- it took Jeb Bush, if you remember at the beginning of his announcement, when he announced for president, took him five days.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=15) He went back, "It was a mistake. It wasn't a mistake."

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=17) Took him five days before his people told him what to say, and he ultimately said it was a mistake.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=24) The war in Iraq, we spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=28) We don't even have it. Iran is taking over Iraq with the second-largest oil reserves in the world.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=33) Obviously, it was a mistake. So- George Bush made a mistake.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=37) S- We can make mistakes, but that one was a beauty.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=40) S- We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized- All right ... the Middle East.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=44) But so you, so I'm gonna, it's, you, so you still think he should be impeached?

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=47) I think it's my turn, isn't it? You do whatever you want.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=49) You call it whatever you want. I wanna tell you, they lied. Okay.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=52) They said there were weapons of mass destruction.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=55) There were none, and they knew there were none.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=57) There were no weapons of mass destruction. All right. Okay. G- all right.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/LoK4mMwo7MJU/en/trump-calls-iraq-war-a-mistake-and-accuses-bush-of-lying-about-wmds?t=60) Governor Bu-