Fox & Friends anchor Brian Kilmeade argued that President Trump shouldn’t have mentioned former President Barack Obama’s foreign policy decisions during his press conference regarding tensions with Iran.
On Wednesday, Trump addressed Iran’s attack against two U.S.-Iraqi air bases with more than a dozen ballistic missiles late Tuesday night, which came after the president ordered the strike that killed top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
“The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration,” Trump said in the grand foyer of the White House. The president was referencing the $1.7 billion in cash sent to Iran by his predecessor’s administration in 2016 to pay for a decades-old arbitration claim between the two nations in exchange for Iran’s release of four American prisoners.
“I just don’t love bringing up the previous administration. Just like I didn’t like when President Obama kept bringing up President Bush,” Kilmeade stated on Thursday, while co-host Steve Doocy pushed back by noting that the deal could have funded the missiles that were fired at the U.S.-Iraqi bases.
Kilmeade asked, “How do you know? … What I’m trying to say is, with President Bush, you heard that statement all along from President Obama, ‘It’s a dumb war,’ as people are missing limbs and can no longer see, or missing legs and hear it’s a dumb war… You have got to bring people together as the president, and to continue to take shots at President Obama three and a half years later doesn’t make any sense.”
Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt both countered by pointing out that Trump was trying to highlight that “Obama’s policy of essentially what the Republicans call appeasement didn’t work.”
