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Miles Archer

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Thu Apr 23, 2026, 11:18 PM Thursday

SO UNFAIR. Orange Julius Caesar is very upset with the WSJ, & BIG MEANIE Peggy Noonan just kicked him while he's down [View all]

In a column published Thursday, the Reagan speechwriter and longtime conservative voice (Peggy Noonan) delivered a pointed rebuke of Trump's failure to make a serious public case for the war in Iran — and didn't spare his vice president either.

"We don’t even know, a month into Iran, why now. Iran has been the world’s fanatic irritant for almost 50 years. What is the plan?" Noonan wrote.

"You can’t take a nation to war without this rhetorical predicate," she wrote. "Mr. Trump has failed to provide it. Now and then he announces things behind a podium, and there are regular responses to questions in press gaggles, where he reacts off the cuff. But nothing thought-through, no serious document making the case. And the public is never reassured."

"If Donald Trump can’t do this, and his vice president can’t do it sincerely, maybe the secretary of state should step in?"

Noonan concluded that Trump's failure to communicate is "part of why the president's popularity is falling."

https://www.rawstory.com/peggy-noonan/

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