On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime on MS NOW, contributor and former George W. Bush aide Elise Jordan urged that Trump administration officers supporting army motion towards Iran had been motivated by psychological insecurity, accusing them of treating conflict like a “online game” and making an attempt to “train their repressed masculinity.”
Jordan made the comment throughout a dialogue of a dignified switch ceremony earlier within the day at Dover Air Pressure Base for six fallen U.S. service members.
Co-host Antonia Hylton requested Jordan whether or not witnessing the return of fallen troops would possibly have an effect on President Trump or the senior officers who accompanied him to the ceremony.
Hylton famous that Trump was joined by the vice chairman, the First and Second Girls, White Home Chief of Employees Susie Wiles, envoy Steve Witkoff, and Legal professional Common Pam Bondi, asking whether or not seeing the fallen introduced residence would possibly “change the calculus” for the administration.
Jordan lectured it was “good” that the officers attended as a result of “they should see the actual value of what going to conflict, and what this conflict goes to imply. It’ll imply much more women and men coming residence in that manner.” However she shortly pivoted from discussing the realities of fight to questioning the motives of Trump officers, suggesting their assist for the battle stemmed from insecurity and what she known as “fake bravado.”
Jordan accused members of the administration of treating the conflict like a “online game” and implied they had been utilizing the battle to compensate for private insecurities:
“And much too many members of this administration have been treating it prefer it’s a online game and a few method to, you realize, train their repressed masculinity that they’ve points with, I assume.
However all of the fake bravado, it simply, it actually does make me need to puke in my abdomen as a result of there is a sure humility that it is best to have only for the lives that you just’re impacting on the bottom and the women and men you’re sending to do this and the ethical harm that you will trigger completely to them.”
Jordan wasn’t merely criticizing administration coverage. She urged Trump officers had been pushed by psychological deficiencies, and it makes her sick.
This is the transcript:
MS NOW
The Weekend: Primetime
3/7/26
6:07 pm ETANTONIA HYLTON: Can I ask you, Elise, you realize, everybody watched the dignified switch occur solely a pair hours in the past, and presidents usually attend them, they don’t at all times, however that is the primary time that President Trump has attended a dignified switch for a conflict that he truly began.
And I ponder, since you’ve been across the determination makers, you realize the price of conflict, if you happen to suppose in any respect seeing one thing like this occur so early on within the combating, will change the calculus, even when it does not change it for President Trump, for anybody round him.
As a result of he was there, the vice chairman was there, the First and Second Woman had been there, Susie Wiles was there, Steve Witkoff, Pam Bondi was there.
I imply, all the inside circle stood by and watched these six fallen service members go by. Does that do one thing to folks?
ELISE JORDAN: It is good that they did, as a result of they should see the actual value of what going to conflict, and what this conflict goes to imply.
It’ll imply much more women and men coming residence in that manner. Regardless of what we do and regardless of our greatest intentions, that is the tough actuality of it.
And much too many members of this administration have been treating it prefer it’s a online game and a few method to, you realize, train their repressed masculinity that they’ve points with, I assume.
However all of the fake bravado, it simply, it actually does make me need to puke in my abdomen as a result of there is a sure humility that it is best to have only for the lives that you just’re impacting on the bottom and the women and men you’re sending to do this and the ethical harm that you will trigger completely to them.
