Hour 3 - See, She Told You So

Clay Travis (0:00)

Welcome in our number three Clay and Buck post midterm election version we bring in now.

Our friend Ann Coulter who expected it to be bad, but I bet it was even worse than she anticipated. Ann, I'll give you the floor. Your reaction to the midterms is what? What is your biggest takeaway?

Ann Coulter (0:22)

Oh, how right I was. No, I did expect us to lose all battleground states. I had just told a friend earlier in the day, we're going to lose all seven. I hoped we could win some other ones, but no, it's the war, the war, the war. And I have to say, I mean, in a way, I agree, as I think I said on your show last week, I agree with the rebuke of this war. It was stupid, it was pointless, it's put us in a worse position, it's put the Middle East in a worse position, it's put Israel in a worse position. As many of us argued from the outset, Trump ran on, he was the one who wasn't going to take us to war. Remember all those tweets from Trump and from Stephen Miller saying, Kamala Harris will start a war, President Trump will not. And then he gets involved in the stupidest war possible. It made Iran stronger, it made us weaker. There's no question that that's what this was about, what people say in polls over and over and over again, even Fox News polls.

It is war, cost of living, cost of gas, and diesel, of course. Well, why has gas and diesel gone up? Because of the war. Why has cost of living gone up? Because of the cost of fuel.

And I've already noticed as I've also been warning people, oh my gosh, the media and apparently, Fox News and the Republicans are going to try to blame this on anything else. It's the ballroom, it's tariffs. As you just said, Clay, with the caller who's claiming it was deporting illegals, that's Trump's most popular issue. It's the only issue on which voters trust him more than Democrats, but I love businessmen calling in saying, oh, he's shutting down my illegal hiring of illegal aliens. Yeah, we have a lot of sympathy for that.

And so for my column, which will be going up in a few hours, I'm going through, I think I'll do this for the rest of the year, my recriminations, naming the people who were the cheerleaders for this war and the vicious, vicious defenders attacking anyone who pointed out that, no, actually, this is going to be bad for Israel, not just the US., calling those people anti-Semitic. I mean, remember the vicious attacks on JD Vance, who tried to end this war five months ago.

If only he had ended it with that negotiation, the Memorandum of Understanding. Well, we might have started to get... I mean, at least there would be an end in sight. There's no end in sight. Any time there's any attempt at resolution, no, you're an anti-Semite for suggesting we stop bombing Iran's girl schools. Iran, of course, is in a stronger position now. We did not wipe out their leadership. I guess we killed one guy. Not only Iran, but every tin pot dictatorship is now their number one objective, it's got to be get a nuke, get a nuke, because the only way we can stop being bad America from bombing us is if we have, if we're a nuclear power. Trump sure isn't going after North Korea. That's the lesson the world learned from our attack on Iran.

Buck Sexton (3:31)

You know, Ann, I had a little exchange with the very on Twitter earlier today with a very sort of prominent, I should say very prominent, but very long standing, probably better way to put it, extreme, not extreme, that's not fair, but interventionist, neocon, whatever, however somebody wants to describe it, basically saying any price, and this is where you're seeing some people say, any price was worth it because Iran was going to nuke us.

I don't believe that. I don't believe that Iran was going to nuke us. And to anyone who says that they will, North Korea, I've actually read about North Korea just as something I'm interested in, is the craziest place on planet Earth by far. Way crazier than Iran, way more vicious and violent than Iran, by the way, I might add, including to its own people. They've had nukes for 20 years, for 20 years, and we all sleep fine at night. So this, we had to do this because Iran was going to nuke America? No, I'm sorry, I'm not buying it. And so this, then the whole thing unravels.