Brian Kilmeade Offers Trump Foolproof Plan On Iran: Just Win The Damn Thing

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Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade proposed on air that if Iranians rise up against their government, the resulting outcome could be spun as a win for Trump and provide Republicans momentum heading into the midterms. Co-host Ainsley Earnhardt responded only with a muted 'that would be incredible' before the segment moved on.

Social media users pushed back sharply, with several noting that Iranians were previously encouraged to storm government buildings by Trump-aligned voices and received no follow-through support, with deadly consequences. Critics also pointed to the bombing of a school as evidence against the idea that outside intervention has built goodwill toward an uprising.

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Somewhere between the couch and the commercial break, regime change became a get-out-the-vote strategy. It takes a special kind of confidence to schedule another country's revolution around your own election calendar, especially when the last round of cheerleading left the actual Iranians holding the bill. But that's the beauty of punditry: the risks are always someone else's, and the momentum is always yours.

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