Obama Tears Into Trump, Hegseth Over Iran War: ‘Not Serious People’
Summary
Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran conflict at a campaign rally in Cleveland. Obama said the administration had abandoned diplomacy and called its leaders “not serious people,” while citing reported U.S. deaths, injuries, attacks on bases and allies, and depleted missile supplies.Key Facts
- Obama spoke at a Cleveland rally alongside Ohio Democratic candidates Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown.
- Obama said the original rationale for the Iran conflict was to stop Iran’s nuclear program and argued diplomacy had done so during his presidency.
- Obama criticized Trump for withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement and later starting the conflict.
- Obama said Americans had been killed, hundreds of service members wounded, and U.S. missile stocks reduced.
- Obama mocked Hegseth’s focus on service members’ testosterone levels and appearance.
- Hegseth announced in July that active-duty service members aged 30 and older would receive annual screenings for testosterone deficiency.
- Trump described the conflict as a “military exercise” at an October 16 rally and had previously called it “small potatoes.”
- The Pentagon reported 21 U.S. service members killed and 865 wounded in connection with operations against Iran.
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