Will Trump Nuke Iran? - Brandon Tatum

Brandon Tatum (0:01)

Trump is saying, victory, victory, victory. Like, where's the plan here? What direction are we going here? What I heard out of his mouth is that it was absolutely necessary to do this. We have a team together that I think can get us out of this without too much collateral damage unnecessarily.

Konstantin Kisin (0:17)

How, Brandon?

Brandon Tatum (0:19)

I do not believe he will go nuclear, but I am not sure. And that's the scary part, because his temperament is not as stable as I'd like it to be.

Konstantin Kisin (0:31)

This is crazy talk. The idea that we're talking about this to me is ludicrous. But when I say out loud, it no longer sounds beyond the realm of the imaginable.

Do you worry that there's the temptation to go nuclear literally?

Brandon Tatum (0:47)

I love Trump. I'm one of the biggest Trump supporters in your interview. I don't know.

Konstantin Kisin (0:52)

That was scary to me.

Brandon Tatum (0:54)

It was scary to me too.

Francis Foster (0:56)

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Konstantin Kisin (1:23)

Brandon Tatum, welcome back to TRIGGERnometry.

Brandon Tatum (1:25)

Well, thank you guys for having me back.

Konstantin Kisin (1:26)

Oh, it's great. Last time we did a great episode, it was really interesting. Our supporters loved it. I think yours as well.

It's great to have you back. It's an interesting time at the moment in America politically, because I think Francis and I have been talking about this and we've been here for a few weeks now. And we were thinking back to two years ago, Trump and the Republicans, House, Senate, presidency, Popular Vote, Electoral College. And the mood was certainly on the right was one of optimism. And what's interesting as well is on the left, it was actually acceptance, because it was so overwhelming. It was clear change of direction for the country. And now what has been happening is, the right is fractured.

You could point at different things. There's the Charlie Kirk thing, obviously, a lot of people thought that would be a moment of unity, but we can talk about how that's gone. Lots of other things going on. I was looking, interestingly, on the Cal-Sheet prediction market at the next nominee for the Republican Party. And it's kind of going all over the place. JD Vance was at like near 60% at one point. Really falling down to about 35 Rubio is rising. So there's the neocons, there's the foreign policy. There's like so much going on. And we're outside, so we don't really have full insight. What do you think is going on?

Brandon Tatum (2:46)

Well, I think some of it is social media. Because everywhere I go, whether it's college campuses, I do speeches places, I don't know if they're just, you know, telling me what I want to hear. But most people are consistently supportive of Donald Trump.

A lot of people are supportive of Donald Trump, but they don't like the Iran war or they have questions about it. Some people understand the gravity of it and why we are participating in it, which I'm one of the people that agree with what Trump is doing.

I wish it would end, but most people are in real life feel that way. Now, online has been incredibly divisive, and I almost feel like the majority of it is online, and that's all it is. Because when you go online, there's a different story, right? There's a lot of people that seem to be divided on the Trump thing. It seems like the Republican Party is divided. But I just don't feel that when you're on the ground. I don't think the Republican Party is as divided as people think it is. You know, once things start. And one of the reasons why I say that is because, you know, when you look at the political climate, you look at some of the victories that Trump candidates have already had before the midterms. Everybody thought that all of his candidates will lose. But most of the people that he endorsed, probably like all but two, I think he had like 26 victories. That tells you that a lot of people are leaning still towards Donald Trump and that idea. So craziness is happening, but I think it's mostly online.

Konstantin Kisin (4:10)