{"id":22026,"date":"2026-03-20T21:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/gutfeld-shreds-claims-that-israel-runs-trumps-iran-policy-with-40-years-of-history\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:41:44","slug":"gutfeld-shreds-claims-that-israel-runs-trumps-iran-policy-with-40-years-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/gutfeld-shreds-claims-that-israel-runs-trumps-iran-policy-with-40-years-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutfeld Shreds Claims That Israel Runs Trump\u2019s Iran Policy With 40 Years Of History"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Fox News\u2019 Greg Gutfeld forcefully pushed back against claims that President Trump\u2019s stance on Iran is driven by Israel, arguing that the record shows decades of consistent rhetoric from Trump himself. Reacting on \u201cThe Five,\u201d Gutfeld insisted critics are ignoring a long history of statements in which Trump outlined a hardline approach to Iran dating back to the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Dana Perino noted, \u201cOne of the big things that\u2019s been emerging is this criticism that started early on in the war, which is that \u2018Israel made Trump do it.\u2019 The president\u2019s rejected that, Karoline Leavitt, they\u2019ve all rejected that, except for that there is a strain that wants that to be the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

People from the horseshoe Right, such as Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, to hard-Left figures such as Ilhan Omar, among others, have bandied about the scurrilous claim that President Trump is doing Israel\u2019s bidding in attacking Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that has been disproven by history!\u201d Gutfeld exclaimed. \u201cYou have 40 years of Trump talking about Iran. He said what he was going to do to Iran in the 1980s! He actually telegraphed what he was gonna do to the island of Kharg.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udea8 Greg Gutfeld SHREDS the claim that Israel \u2018made\u2019 Trump attack Iran: \u201cThat has been disproven by history!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have 40 years of Trump talking about Iran. He said what he was going to do to Iran in the 1980s!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe telegraphed what he was going to do to the island of Kharg,\u201d\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/OU6IOf6Z11<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) March 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In 1980, 46 years ago, Donald Trump told<\/a> interviewer Rona Barrett this after Iran seized and held American hostages: \u201cWhen you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do, and you can create the right attitudes. The Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror. And I don\u2019t think they\u2019d do it with other countries. I honestly don\u2019t think they\u2019d do it with other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, you\u2019re advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, etc., and brought our boys out,\u201d Barrett pressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI absolutely feel that, yes. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question, and there\u2019s no question in my mind,\u201d Trump replied.<\/p>\n

In 1987, Trump told The Guardian<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019d be harsh on Iran. They\u2019ve been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools. One bullet shot at one of our men or ships and I\u2019d do a number on Kharg Island. I\u2019d go in and take it. Iran can\u2019t even beat Iraq, yet they push the United States around. It\u2019d be good for the world to take them on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n