BREAKING: It's official — Trump's Iran war is now the MOST UNPOPULAR war in American history. And he's about to hand YOU the bill.
Donald Trump just achieved something no president in American history has ever managed: he started the single most unpopular war the country has ever fought — and now he's sending YOU an $80 BILLION invoice for it.
According to a detailed analysis of 153 public opinion surveys across SEVEN major U.S. conflicts, Trump's Iran war is the most unpopular war in American history — in not one, not two, but THREE distinct ways.
First: it's the ONLY war in U.S. history to BEGIN with negative public support. At -13% net support, Americans opposed it before it even started.
Second: at -32% net support today, it is now LESS popular than the Vietnam War was at its lowest point.
Third: at NO point — not for a single day — have more Americans supported this war than opposed it. It's the first U.S. war fought ENTIRELY underwater. World War II started at +95%. Afghanistan started at +80%. Trump's Iran war started in the negatives and only sank from there.
And now comes the bill.
The Wall Street Journal reports the Pentagon told lawmakers it needs roughly $80 BILLION to recoup its Iran war costs — money Trump will formally request from Congress this week. That's ON TOP of the $1.1 TRILLION military budget Congress already approved this year.
Even more infuriating: that $80 billion figure is NEARLY THREE TIMES the $29 billion that Pete Hegseth claimed in a Senate hearing — a number he offered with NO documentation and NO methodology, and which establishment media dutifully parroted for five weeks. Independent journalists who actually did the math estimated $72 billion. They were right. Hegseth was off by tens of billions of dollars.
So, let's tally it up:
The most unpopular war in American history? Check.
Started by a president who deliberately chose it? Confirmed.
Roughly 150 dead at a bombed Iranian school? Yep.
Gas at $6 a gallon? Absolutely.
Iran's nuclear program still intact? Check.
And an $80 billion bill landing on YOUR doorstep. Certainly, if Congress agrees to Trump’s budget request.
It’s perfectly clear that the vast majority of Americans never wanted this war. Now they're paying for it anyway.
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