Speaking for roughly an hour at a rally in battleground Wisconsin, the GOP presidential nominee attempted to place the blame for Iran’s attack on the U.S. ally squarely on the shoulders of his Democratic opponent.
“The two incompetent people running our country — I don’t actually think they’re even running it — are leading us to the brink of WWIII and a war like no other. This is what the policies of weakness and appeasement have brought to the world,” Trump said in reference to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“You wouldn’t trust Joe or Kamala to run a lemonade stand anywhere, would you?” he added.
Under the leadership of Harris and Biden, Trump described a dystopian world “spiraling out of control” and that the planet was “close to global catastrophe.”
“We have a nonexistent president and a nonexistent vice president who should be in charge, but nobody knows what’s going on,” Trump continued.
Congressional Republicans quickly took messaging cues from Trump, who earlier in the day posted that Iran “was in total check” while he was in office. Allies on Capitol Hill reiterated their support for Israel and argued the Biden administration has enabled terrorist groups in Iran and beyond by failing to enforce sanctions and rolling back Trump-era policies to rein in Iran’s nuclear capability.