In an interview on ABC News' This Week, Abdul El-Sayed argues that Trump started a war with Iran that every previous president resisted, putting the Strait of Hormuz energy choke point at risk. He says the tariff war with Canada has Americans "paying $5,600 a year," and he warns that Medicaid cuts passed to fund tax cuts for the richest Americans take hold in January.
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- interview - ABC News 'This Week' with Jonathan Karl
- Original footage
- ABC News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 55 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 186 on Instagram
Read the transcript
Well, let's talk about how he is an unserious full. Think about this war in Iran that every single president had resisted fighting. Because of course it was a dumb idea because there's this place called the Strait of Hormuz that everybody could have told you would have been a choke point on energy. He does this in a moment when energy is single -handedly upholding the S &P 500 because of the power of AI corporations building data centers right now, which we also have to start addressing because of course that's run amuck. Let's talk about the foolishness of a tariff war with Canada. Canada. I mean, I'm from Michigan. It's the only place in the country you can go south to get to Canada. And you know Canadians are really nice people. And yet here we are paying $5 ,600 a year. Let's talk about the foolishness of gutting Medicaid to pass tax cuts for the richest people in America. And we're about to watch that nuclear bomb go off in the form of those cuts taking hold in January.
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