Um, but, but, uh, is he being thrown off his game now? He, he had these ambitions of changing the world, and now the world is saying, "It's not so easy."

Well, clearly.

I mean, when you are at war with another country, the other country gets a say, and I think that's the com- I mean, it's a basic fact.

And that, but that is the complicating factor for the president right now, and his ambitions are not something that's easily, um, explainable to the voter who is looking at the gas ta- who is looking at the price tag when they fill up their cars.

You know, when, when the president gets pressed about the gas issue, he says, "Well, you know, it's g- it's a small price to pay, particularly if it means Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon for the future." And he may be right on that point, but that, I'm not sure how much that matters to the voter who's now paying 50, 60, $80 for a tank.

And I mean, we all covered the Biden administration.

Remember how obsessive Ron Klain was, the former White House Chief of Staff, with gas prices because it is kind of the one consumer product where you see the price tag, the sticker price all over town wherever you go.

It, it strikes me that, that he would rather perhaps have a, an Iranian toll booth on the Strait of Hormuz than go into, back to an active shooting war with Iran, given where we are in the 2026 cycle.