Press Critique on Trump's Military Success

Because you, and I mean specifically you, the press,

specifically you, the press corps, because you

cheer against Trump so hard, it's like in your DNA and in your

blood to cheer against Trump because you want him not to be successful

so bad,

you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes.

You have to hope maybe they weren't effective.

Maybe the way the Trump administration has represented them isn't true.

So let's take half-truths,

spun information, leaked information, and then spin it,

spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt

and manipulate the mind- the public mind over whether

or not our brave

pilots

were successful. How many stories have been written about

how hard it is to

s- I don't know, fly a plane for thirty-six hours?

Has MSNBC done that story? Has Fox?

Have we done the story how hard that is?

Have we done it two or three times so that American people understand?

How about how difficult it is to shoot a drone from an F-15 or 16 or

F-22 or F-35? Or what it's like to man a Patriot

battery,

or how hard it is to refuel midair, giving the American people an

understanding of how complex and sophisticated this mission really was.

Uh, there are so many aspects of what our

brave men and women did

that by-- because of the hatred of this press corps,

are undermined because you're-- people are trying to leak and

spin, uh, that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible.

And folks in this room are privy to that information because of the

proximity here in the Pentagon. It's an important responsibility.

And time and time again, classified information is leaked or

peddled for political purposes to try to make the president look bad.

And what's really happening is you're undermining the success of

incredible B-2

pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers

and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission, set

back a nuclear program in ways that other presidents would have dreamed.

How about we celebrate that?

How about we talk about how special America is, that we-- only we have these

capabilities?

I think it's too much to ask, unfortunately, for the fake news,

so we're used to

that. But it-- we also have an opportunity to stand at

the podium and read the

truth of what's really happening.

And the reality is you wanna call it destroyed, you wanna call it defeated, you

wanna call it obliterated. Choose your word.

This was an historically successful attack, and we should celebrate it as

Americans, and it gives us a chance to have peace,

chance to

have a deal, and an opportunity to prevent a nuclear

Iran, which is something

President Trump talked about for twenty years.