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Trump
Frenemy Says He Doesn’t ‘Have a Clue’ About Iran Strategy
The
president’s war games are a “miscalculation,” according to a man who has known
Trump for nearly two decades.
Vic
Verbalaitis
Night
Breaking News Reporter
Published
Mar. 15 2026 5:19PM EDT
The
English broadcaster appeared on the BBC on Sunday morning to talk about the
U.S.-Israeli joint offensive in Iran, just two weeks after it began on Feb. 28,
and how 79-year-old President Donald Trump’s handling of the situation has
raised more questions than it has answered.
“Piers,
you’re someone who’s had lots of interactions with Donald Trump,” host Laura
Kuenssberg asked Morgan, 60. “Do you think he has a clue what he’s trying to
achieve in the Middle East?”
“No. I
don’t,” the journalist replied curtly. “I think he’s thought he could pull a
Venezuela here, decapitate the leadership of Iran, and it would all get settled
quite quickly. And I think, two weeks in, what is very clear is this is not
going to get settled quickly.”
“All the
mission statements he’s laid out have changed day by day, sometimes hour by
hour,” he continued. “It was going to be regime change. It was after the
nuclear capability, which we’d been assured only 10 months ago had been
dismantled already.”
Morgan,
who entered Trump’s sphere after winning his reality show The Celebrity
Apprentice in 2008, said this war was especially interesting given the
“overwhelming” military strength of the combined American and Israeli forces
facing Iran, which has focused on a different approach.
“They’ve
gone after a war economically, and they’ve been very successful so far,” Morgan
said about the Iranians. “But by controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and by
attacking these neighboring Gulf states in the touristy areas, they are sending
a signal that we can’t beat you necessarily militarily, but economically we can
paralyze you.”
Since
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on March 2, global oil prices have shot up as
the crucial trade corridor‘s daily traffic has plummeted. Americans have felt
the war at the pump, as domestic gas prices have shot up to an average of $3.70
per gallon, up more than 22 percent from $2.94 just a month ago.
“I think,
whether you like Trump or not - and I’ve known him a long time, I like him, but
I don’t like what he’s doing at the moment,” Morgan said, the UK’s Express
reported. “I think it’s a miscalculation that, in the end, could define his
presidency.”
Despite
his friendliness with Trump for almost 20 years, the British journalist has
insisted he is not a “MAGA supporter,” instead labeling himself as “an old
school non-woke liberal centrist.”
Morgan
has been critical of Trump throughout his second term, including when the
president reposted an AI video on Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle
Obama as apes, which he called “vile” and “racist.”
Vic
Verbalaitis
Night
Breaking News Reporter
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