White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gives the ¹official statements from the White House on a variety of topics and matters of great interest. The video below is prompted to the beginning of the media question segment.
Around the 10:00 minute mark Leavitt notes the likelihood of President Trump taking military action against Iran. WATCH:
¹There is a tremendous amount of false or manipulated information from media sources, allies and critics of the administration. We are at a critical juncture where it is a best practice to listen directly to President Trump or his specifically assigned spokespeople.
Once more, my dear mother in law was forever saying that “you don’t have to tell everything you know”.
I pray for the Iranian people 🙏🏻
Wisdom, thank you 👍
Or what’s left of them anyhow :,(
I remain flabbergasted that there were no leaks before Iran’s nuclear facilities/enrichment sites were blown to Kingdom come.
If there any plans in the offing, I’m sure they are known only to a very tight lipped, trusted few.
In the meantime, I’m betting someone is in charge of aiming laser red dots here, there, everywhere at the enemedia, which they are clearly chasing like demented cats..
Thanks Betsy. I noted that wonderful advice in my journal!
I carry it with me always…you’re most welcome..
This will be a good thing as long as the Ayatollah has been removed. It will change Iran from a source of violence and terror to one of an ally of the US and Israel.
Of course, if MAGA fails and we are unable to fix our own country, it won’t matter in the least.
Logic informs us that everything matters, exactly to the degree that it actually does in reality. I get your point, however.
The Ayatollah is just one part of the evil Iranian regime.
He could die of a heart attack later today – Allah be Praised!!! – and the Mullahs/IRG would just replace him.
Not exactly, they view him as like a semi messianic figure
To: the leadership of Iran who adhere to a heresy termed Islam.
“Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military strategy based on the use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy’s perception of the battlefield and destroy their will to fight… developed specifically for application by the US military by the National Defense University of the United States.” -Oxford Dictionary.
It’s easy for you to pick on unarmed protestors in the streets of Iran; however, this coalition of the willing that the U.S. and Israel are leading is something very very different. Time is running out for you to make a deal or learn this the hard way.
Sincerely,
A genuine Christian who has heard the voice of the Lord speak to his spirit, “I chose you.”
What’s the ‘end-game’ of military action against Iran?
To overthrow the Iranian regime?
The IRG /Army is the regime. It’s not just the Ayatollah.
It took a land invasion – not just air power – to overthrow the Saddam regime and the IRG/Army is a lot stronger than Saddam’s army.
The warmongers who call themselves Christians don’t think that far ahead. They look for Israel to call someone evil and they’re ready to kill!
Actual Christians don’t hate Israel.
Thank You
There’s a big difference between hating and not supporting.
Let the Zionists fight their own battles. Most Americans aren’t interested in doing Israel’s bidding.
There are these things, you may have heard about them. They are called nuclear tipped ballistic missiles. Iran is close to having them. Now the present leadership in Iran is an extremist Islamic theocracy wholly committed to state sponsored terrorism with an end goal of subjugating the entire world under an anti-christ caliphate and the heresy of Islam using force of violence where deception fails. They have been publicly screaming “Death to America” since February 11, 1979.
Ok, following so far? Good. Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that this doesn’t end well for people living right here in the good old United States if the United States doesn’t exploit this timely fortunate opportunity to eradicate that nuclear threat from such and even remove the head off the snake.
You assume too much which is obviated by your skewed opinion. Iran is a threat to earth not just Israel. We are protecting the citizens of earth by refusing to allow an evil demented regime to flourish.
Too many Christians are hoodwinked into believing Israel is always the good guy and are Gods chosen people.
Says so in the oldest most historically proven document on earth. Good and evil are not defined between countries or ideologies. The line separating good and evil runs through the heart of every human being. God chose Israel to use to reveal Himself to mankind. It was both a blessing and a curse.
Not all regime changes are the same. The regime is extremely weak politically, economically, and I suspect militarily. The vast majority of the country are against them. And the technology we have now is leagues above where it was 20+ years ago
Independence is hard to achieve. Even Patrick Henry had a go of it when after elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1765 Henry felt compelled to introduce legislation apposed to the Stamp Act.
In the end the resolutions passed and taxation by the British on the colonies became universally established.
This kicked off the War for Independence.
Later Henry wrote, (We have independence) “Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse will depend upon the use our people make of the blessings which a gracious God has bestowed on us.”
Does the will of the Iranian populace have the same incentives and will as the early colonies? Are there enough strong popular leaders among them to tip the balance of power?
Probably eventually but the cost in blood would be far higher compared to if we help.
There are those saying a war in Iran will be a massive undertaking lasting weeks. I think it could be over in an hour. The IRGC and the regular Iranian army will sit down on the roadsides, when they hear we are coming. They will abandon their missile tubes and weapons to save themselves. Then the people will come out to celebrate their freedom.
“The IRGC and the regular Iranian army will sit down on the roadsides, when they hear we are coming.”
And they will all hold up American flags and sing the Star Spangled Banner.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on any of it.
President Trump did something wise: he decided to let the Pentagon decide the requirements for the conflict. It will be a win.
“ Then the people will come out and behead their tyrants.”
Fixed it for you.
Just like Iraq in 2003, right?
How about this one, Karoline? I lay this failure on Trump’s doorstep, giving the Dems a win on this one.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/obama-appointed-judge-rules-ice-cant-re-detain/
I’m paraphrasing Rubio, but what struck me was when he said it’s hard to negotiate geo-political issues with a theocracy.
My addendum to that: especially one that seeks the subjugation of the world to Islam.
And an irrational Theocracy that has only one mode of negotiating,…. “Delay, Delay and Delay. always Delay”,… hoping Trump will fall back to the Obama negotiation plan,…. “palettes of midnight delivered cash and unfrozen Iranian funds, all for Iran’s Promise not to develop nukes”,…. while they continue to build nukes/better missis and use our funds to finance world terror.”
No more carrots, Donald,…. use the Big Stick,…. and let Prince Reza Pahlavi take over by popular demand.
Why are so many Americans wanting to bomb and kill? Iran has Russian and Chinese backing and have said if you attack us this time we will destroy Israel and American bases in the middle east. Is that really what we want to happen?
Maybe we should bomb and destroy Israel and Nutanyahoo and save the world from his insanity.
“The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.”
Proverbs 16:9 ESV
No one stands apart from the Lords plan!
Iran is backed by govts that wish to end the American Experiment and return the world to a feudal age.
If you/we won’t stand up to them now, then when ?
They don’t want a fight with us.
They want us to wimper, surrender without a fight, and walk away.
It is the same game as it has always been for 4000 years.
Why do we need to fight Iran? How do we benefit? This is about what Israel wants and they want us to go to war with Iran. Trump has to walk a tightrope because the American political class is bought and paid for by AIPAC. I doubt Trump wants a war with Iran but he took money from Miriam Adelson to the tune of $100,000,000 so when she says bomb he has to bomb or figure out a way around it.
Clown show talking point not everything’s about the jews. Iran has been chanting death to America for 40 years. They’ve killed and maimed us citizens directly and indirectly during that entire period and sustain several radical jihadi proxies.
I think it’s about more than myrium adelson
I didn’t say the Jews, I said Israel. In the last 40 years we have killed 100 Iranians to every American they have killed. It is about more than Miriam Adelson, our entire Congress is bought and paid for, these people have to do the bidding of their paymasters, the Israeli PAC. Of course the evangelical crowd always wants what is best for Israel no matter what it costs us.
We’ve killed 100 Iranians to every American? Where exactly are you getting that made up statistic?
The embassy bombing, the hostages, their proxy armies throughout the Middle East including Hamas. The weekly chant of death to America but the us and Israel are the problem right? Not those peace loving jihadis.
Yeah Congress is bought and paid by a lot of interests sometimes interests overlap. A regime collapse in Iran not only frees the Persian people of Iran it completely defunds the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas
And CAIR
Frankly, this is >50 years overdue.
Buckeye, our problem is not with the Iranian people, it is with their Islamic administration. The muslims are the sponsors of terror in the region. Why are you supporting them?
I’m not likely in favor of military action against Iran, but be realistic. When Iran refers to America as “the great satan” and chants “death to America”, it’s pretty safe to say they mean us harm if they have the means and opportunity. I definitely had my misgivings about our attacking their enrichment sites, but the Iranian leadership has made it clear they wish to use nukes if they can. I pray for the peace of Jerusalem as we’re told to do, but I don’t believe secular Israel will ever achieve it, with or without anyone else’s help, nor should we mindlessly support Israel.
In my opinion the greatest impediment to peace in the middle east is Israel and the Nutanyahoo regime. They are blood thirsty maniacs who want to expand greater Israel all over the middle east because they say God gave them that land.
How do you account for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis? What do they have in common? Try, IRAN!
“If Hamas lay down their weapons, there will be peace; if Israel lay down their weapons, they will be annihilated.”
Buckeye, not quite sure where all you’re hate of Israel is coming from, but this statement is nutty. Have you looked at a map of the middle east? Just where are they going to expand too? The only thing I’d see them doing and personally wish they’d have done many years ago is annex the West Bank and Gaza. Other than that, they are pretty locked in by a whole lot of Muslims.
Russia and China will do nothing. Russia didn’t have the force projection to save Venezuela or Syria. China is largely a paper tiger and would collapse without the us market
1. The United States should not commit its forces to military action
overseas unless the cause is vital to our national interest.
2. If the decision is made to commit our forces to combat abroad, it must be done with the clear intent and support needed to win. It should not be a halfway or tentative commitment, and there must be clearly defined and realistic objectives.
3. Before we commit our troops to combat, there must be reasonable assurance that the cause we are fighting for and the actions we take will have the support of the American people and Congress.
4. Even after all these other tests are met, our troops should be committed to combat abroad only as a last resort, when no other choice is available.
– Ronald Reagan
If you choose a War, you must use all your resources to win quickly and end it.
The bean counters who make money off unrelenting and never ending wars are the bad guys in this puzzle.
Ukraine is a monster of money laundering. Actual hard core unrepentant NAZIS run the Ukraine machine.
They don’t want a solution. The money is what they want.
We could have won the Vietnam War in 2 weeks if we had been willing to fight with all our resources, beginning by bombing the major dams in Northwest Vietnam.
The resulting floods would have ruined their agriculture for a year and immediately they would have asked for peace, but we did not. We didn’t really try to win that War.
McNamara and his spittle crew wanted a long back and forth BS war for the military weapons profit. They assassinated President Kennedy because he said “no”
Follow the money they say.
A DOGE audit of monies – US taxpayer monies – that were given to Ukraine would show massive kickbacks to treasonous politicians, military armament companies, high financiers, drug cartels, corrupt businesses, and phony NGOs.
Epstein stuff is the tip of the iceberg.
The conduit channels of the 535 pipes feeding MILLION$ and MILLION$$ of U.S. Taxpayer dollars back to the bank accounts of the corrupt congress-critters and their minions, surrogates, and sock-puppet masters must be behind the tanks.
Not all regime changes are equal. The Islamic fundamentalist cult running Iran deserves to be destroyed. And yes it is in Americas interest for it to happen
I suppose people forget how many thousands of American deaths and the deaths of thousands more the Islamist regime has been responsible for either directly or through proxies.
And forget also which president was responsible for supporting it….a regime change which can be laid directly at his feet and which to this day nearly forty years later threatens the entire West and the Middle East.
I refer again to President Trump’s first foreign trip during his first term and what I think history will consider to be the most consequential speech of his presidency. I have left the transcript below. Reviewing his words now and in light of recent weeks might give a clue for events to come…and for which we all remain in the dark.
We can only pray that the murderous malignancy which is the Islamic regime in Iran and its rabid enforcers are seeing their final days.
For everything there is a season…
God bless and protect President Trump, Secretary Hegseth, and all who serve in our military…
We watch and we wait, but no more so than the benighted people in Iran whose barbaric sacrifices of their own blood and treasure mount daily.
In His hands be it 🙏🏻
(For what it may be worth, I find it interesting that with all the military movement we are watching, we hear no dog barking, or even whimpering, in the neighbouring ME nations. Just an observation.)
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-trumps-speech-arab-islamic-american-summit/
Thanks for posting. Powerful reminder of that to which he’d committed our nation.
Terrific and very well thought out response Betsy I couldn’t agree more
Very kind, Frank…thank you.
Its still amazing to me how many Americans that couldn’t find Iran on a map and who are not impacted by the regimes existence, want to toss billions of my tax dollars to do something? Their life will be no better if the mullahs leave.
That is exactly right.
What a smart, articulate and beautiful young lady.
She does a great job.
Should he choose this war, so much for a Peace President.
I hope the $7K posters in the room send their children first.
I have no doubt Obama is telling Iran to fight Trump and never give in . He’s insufferable . He always involves himself in foreign matters .
Should have been behind bars a long time ago.
I always enjoy “buckeyes” comments, because they tell me what the hardcore, anti American crowd is thinking, and that is always good information to have.
The question at the 19:30 mark was a funny one-asking if President Trump had sought a meeting with the DemonCrats over the partial shutdown.
It’s a funny question because it reflects the prehistoric UniParty thinking that a RepubliCon president must make a pilgrimage to the DemonCrats to seek a “compromise.”
In other words, “What can we give up to you in order to make a deal that preserves the UniParty grift?”
There’s a new sheriff in town. His ways are not their ways. The UniParty will submit to the new sheriff. There are no other options.
God bless “Sheriff” Trump!
What the hell ever happened to Air Marshalls? We still have any?
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