Rep. Seth Moulton is exactly correct when it comes to trying to "analyze" anything that comes out of Trump's lying mouth. Moulton made an appearance on this Wednesday's All in with Chris Hayes following Trump's ridiculous zombie address to the nation, where we learned absolutely nothing about his illegal war of aggression against Iran, and was asked to weigh in on whether or not Trump may try to send in ground troops.
HAYES: Congressman Seth Moulton is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a Marine Corps veteran, and he joins me now. Congressman, do feel like you got any insight, any clarity on this war from that speech tonight?
MOULTON: I mean, definitely no insight or clarity, Chris. I mean, the president is senseless, he's senile, and he's downright sleepy. I mean, it was a pretty pathetic address that just showed how weak and clueless he is. And it would be almost comical if the stakes were not so high. But the stakes are incredibly high. And that's why this is so dangerous for us and for our troops.
HAYES: I want to play you something he said about, you know, again, we're wrapping it up. We've sort of accomplished everything. The regime has changed. And there's going to be another window for possible negotiations. But if they don't negotiate, then we're going to bomb electrical plants and send them back, he said the Stone Age.
I want to play you that and just get your reaction to it. Take a listen.
TRUMP: I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders', death. They're all dead. The new group is less radical. .
HAYES: The only thing that I felt I took away, and again, I can be telling myself a lie here because anything can change, it did seem that he did not—that was not the direction things were going, a ground invasion. Did you get that sense?
MOULTON: Chris, I'm not a child psychologist, so I can't understand the mind of Donald Trump. But the reality is — thousands and thousands of troops have already arrived right now. It makes me, you know, I've talked to some of their parents. I know what some of those Marines are thinking because I've been in those same shoes. I've been on ships headed to the Middle East.
But even in Iraq, for all the problems with that war, at least there was a plan. At least Congress had voted on it. At least the American people had weighed in. At least the generals had come before Congress and put forward a plan.
None of that exists today. And so I think this could get a lot worse. We already saw oil futures spike, go much higher just during the course of his speech. But that's just the price of oil.
When more Americans start coming home in body bags, this is going to not only just get immeasurably worse for us, for our nation, for our troops, but it's going to be harder for the president to get himself out.


