Why Haven't Any Living Former Presidents
Publicly Supported Trump for Enforcing
Their Unanimous Red Line?
Townhall.com,
by
Guy Benson
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
6/25/2025 3:18:24 PM
This is a fair question from Matt Continetti, who recites some of the relevant quotations before posing it. I'll add to the list. President Bill Clinton described a nuclearlzed Iran as intolerable and signed the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000, "which authorize[d] him to take punitive action against individuals or organizations known to be providing material aid to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs in Iran." President George W. Bush intoned in 2008 that "permitting the world’s leading sponsor of terror to possess the world’s deadliest weapon would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations."
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/25/2025 3:29:41 PM (No. 1969356)
Why? Seems to me the answer is pretty simple.
None of them had the balls to do the job, and don't expect them to admit that Trump did have the courage to do what was right. It's an admission of their own malfeasance.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 6/25/2025 3:29:56 PM (No. 1969357)
Hussein and the Demented Fuhrer - like "deer's" caught in headlights.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/25/2025 3:39:16 PM (No. 1969361)
Because all the former living presidents were total failures.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lazyman 6/25/2025 3:40:51 PM (No. 1969362)
They're all politicians not statesmen.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Melanie 6/25/2025 3:49:39 PM (No. 1969367)
Why? As many other L-dotters have stated...They are political reptiles who do not have courage or character.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 6/25/2025 3:49:56 PM (No. 1969368)
Because they are all Deep State and hate Trump worse than Iran.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/25/2025 3:54:05 PM (No. 1969369)
Because Trump might actually deserve the Nobel for having done something other than be born Black.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Axeman 6/25/2025 4:12:33 PM (No. 1969372)
BJC and FJB are trying to not drop dead publicly. Any minute they are still alive is a miracle to them. They are both standing in the shadow.
W just needs to be forgotten. He should be wary about showing his face in the circle. Everyone has a rotten tomato for him.
Zippw0n will say something if he thinks there's a benefit to him and himself alone, damn anyone else. Besides, he's busy with more important things, that matter to him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
downnout 6/25/2025 4:19:54 PM (No. 1969374)
They haven’t commented because they are cowardly men who would not have had the stones to do what President Trump did. Not to mention that congratulating him now would mean being eliminated from the Washington, DC cocktail circuit.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/25/2025 4:20:06 PM (No. 1969375)
Yeah, it's because they are all deep staters and can't stand the perception that Trump just demonstrated real leadership and dismantled their narrative and the mullah's nuke ambitions. Hate takes precedence over leadership and common sense.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chumley 6/25/2025 4:31:46 PM (No. 1969376)
Their owners haven't given them permission to speak.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/25/2025 4:32:57 PM (No. 1969377)
They are totally in awe of Donald Trump and the TDS hit them hard. Before 2016 it was perfectly acceptable for a president to attend state dinners, send their families on luxurious vacations, give our money away all over the world, make more restrictive laws to please their donors and bask in the glory of sitting in the White House and being called "Mister President." Unfortunately for them, the American people have decided that good enough just isn't good enough.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/25/2025 4:55:11 PM (No. 1969380)
Pusillanimous.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
vrb8m 6/25/2025 5:23:49 PM (No. 1969383)
Because they are, to a man (ahem) spineless.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Mushroom 6/25/2025 5:25:12 PM (No. 1969384)
It is very, very simple. Talking and doing are two different things.
If they DID something to stop the action, they might actually stop it. Then they would be without that boiler plate topic to rant and rave about.
This is no different from many other fields... big pharma doesn't 'heal' anything...that would cause all the free money from the public to cease..they just treat symptoms. That way they can keep the cash flowing.
Politicians are no different.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
dbdiva 6/25/2025 5:29:43 PM (No. 1969385)
#s 6 and 10 nailed it. IMO they were all deep state creatures who were not working to benefit the country but on various levels were puppets taking order from others. Former POTUS's are seeing a lot of what they've done being dismantled by PDJT do they can't be happy at the moment. Hopefully we'll find out who those "others" are at some point.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 6/25/2025 5:51:22 PM (No. 1969390)
Trump is a LEADER, the rest sadly were not. The Dems were mostly whiners except for Biden, who had to be led about, like a toddler in a diaper. The Repubs were mostly spineless cowards, always kowtowing to their donors and not the electorate. In that, the Repubs & Dems were alike. I bet Reagan would've looked up to Trump and admired his ability to galvanize people to take action. The Bushes were too rich to connect with the public.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
govlawyer 6/25/2025 6:06:04 PM (No. 1969395)
Why? Because their globalist masters didn't want it done in the first place. Endless wars means endless honorariums and other forms of lagnape.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
kono 6/25/2025 6:10:48 PM (No. 1969398)
Living former Presidents -- blustery bolsheviks without balls
Former living Presidents - no longer living, and not publicly endorsing much of anything.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/25/2025 6:11:52 PM (No. 1969400)
Why?
Well of the 4 Bush is the only GOP & the others Dems.
None of dem will credit him & we all know about Trump & the Bush family.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/25/2025 6:28:32 PM (No. 1969405)
That's easy. Trump is not one of them, and for that we should be grateful.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
qr4j 6/25/2025 6:32:58 PM (No. 1969406)
They hate Mr. Trump. The action against Iran was focused on taking out nuclear threats primarily and achieving a peace of some sort secondarily. It wasn’t about nation building.
To paraphrase Larry the Cable Guy, Trump got ‘er done.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/25/2025 6:52:46 PM (No. 1969411)
Because they are what they are.
Ivy league empty shirts who answer to globalist and military Industrial complex masters. We have put up with this for decades.
No more. No more Jimmah Carters, no more Bill Clinton's and Barack Obama!
No more George W Bushs, or John McCains.
No more. We won't tolerate someone whose only plus is that they aren't a Democrat.
You... Have... Been... Warned....
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/25/2025 7:32:25 PM (No. 1969423)
Democrats
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/25/2025 7:35:13 PM (No. 1969424)
Should have aId mostly Democrats and one fence-sitter.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 6/25/2025 7:46:57 PM (No. 1969430)
Jealousy is a nasty trait.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/25/2025 8:52:00 PM (No. 1969453)
Talk is cheap, real actions require a spine. They know what people want to hear and are more than happy to say it. If it is something that people might not want to hear, they use pretty words and sugar coat it so that nobody knows what they are saying.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/25/2025 8:57:18 PM (No. 1969454)
Because they are either embarrassed leftist progressive Democrats or a wimpy Republican who never won a war, and were happy to send hundreds of thousands of US troops into the Middle East quagmire to see how many US troops survive without winning a war? Trump does not do that, he smacks the enemy as hard as possible, and when the mission is accomplished salutes the troops and gets them out of harms way.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
msjena 6/25/2025 8:57:50 PM (No. 1969455)
Because they are jealous, petty men.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 6/25/2025 9:22:59 PM (No. 1969459)
How about the former Secretary of State under Obama, PIAPS? But, of all those the only republican is Bush. It makes me sick what he has become out of office. Of all of them, I am most disgusted by his absolute silence. We supported that guy through thick and thin and he has done nothing but pretty much agree that all of his supporters that now support our beloved, loyal President Trump, are DEPLORABLES. Sick to my stomach and embarrassed that I supported this him.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
3XALADY 6/25/2025 10:10:36 PM (No. 1969477)
President Trump is a LEADER. All of them were L.I.N.O.s - Leaders In Name Only. And jealousy is an awful thing.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
FLCracker 6/25/2025 11:33:15 PM (No. 1969492)
Jealousy.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
daisey 6/25/2025 11:48:33 PM (No. 1969495)
Teensy tiny cahoonas. That’s why.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/26/2025 7:39:19 AM (No. 1969562)
Read my lip and let me be perfectly clear (words we heard many times from past Presidents): I only talk tough. I don't really mean what I say or intend to actually do anything. I just want the tough guy sound bite appearing tough while taking no actions because I'm afraid of any consequences.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/26/2025 8:32:15 AM (No. 1969585)
Good memory, #30. Thank God she was never president but as Secstate Hillary very defiantly stated that she would never let Iran have a nuke and would do whatever it took to prevent that. Anyone heard a peep out of her lately?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 6/26/2025 8:46:46 AM (No. 1969592)
Because they hate Donald Trump more than the “love” America. I’m not sure any of them actually love America and I know that one of them has no love at all for this country. You guess which one.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/26/2025 9:17:33 AM (No. 1969600)
They've all been "nuanced" into near pinhead status by their infectious leftist friends.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/26/2025 10:24:57 AM (No. 1969645)
Here's the answer to the question...why did the former president compliment President Trump on his achievement alongside the military...because it makes them look bad...and lacking in courage....I'm sure they are all hiding in their basements waiting for the fake news reporters to come and question them...perhaps they watched the 7:00AM news report from Hegreth and Admiral Raising Caine explaining the courage that midnight thunder asked of all the military personnel and our President Trump...
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
franco 6/26/2025 10:59:20 AM (No. 1969666)
We now know that the grifting operations of Democrats involves them taking slivers of very large taxpayer cash flows as kick-backs, usually in the range of 1% or more (perhaps as high as 10%) of the total. Knowing this, while we can consider Clinton and Bush as policy failures, let's stop and imagine the kick-backs that Obama administration affiliates might have gotten from that $1.7 billion in cash that was dumped on Iran: 10% of $1.7 billion is $170 million, and that buys a lot of lifestyle for grifters and gigolos.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
danu 6/26/2025 3:31:26 PM (No. 1969755)
they are all money-grubbing loathsome cowards. Thune won't allow the senate to pass a budget
without removing protections for children...from being sliced and diced by 'gender care' killers.
Thne wants to protect the AI cabal, and get his 10%? he's another rino-crap, hiding behind
the memory of the Grand Moogle of the KKK, and an unelected bureaucrat.
remember instead chas dickens: the law is a ass, a idiot.
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