{"id":76415,"date":"2026-07-22T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/trumps-war-on-iran-is-unpopular-and-expensive-hes-perfectly-ok-with-that\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:55:43","slug":"trumps-war-on-iran-is-unpopular-and-expensive-hes-perfectly-ok-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/trumps-war-on-iran-is-unpopular-and-expensive-hes-perfectly-ok-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s war on Iran is unpopular and expensive. He\u2019s perfectly OK with that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s response to the Iran war\u2019s mounting death toll and astronomical costs? \u2018It won\u2019t have any impact on me\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/apr\/25\/election-newsletter-sign-up-stakes\">Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Could it be \u2026 that Donald Trump isn\u2019t a team player?<\/p>\n<p>The midterm elections are less than four months away, and Republicans in the House and the Senate \u2013 hampered by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/07\/21\/trumps-approval-rating-near-record-lows-latest-poll\/90999169007\/\">deeply unpopular<\/a> president and what might be an even less popular war \u2013 are increasingly fearful of losing their jobs. Even Trump\u2019s base is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jun\/22\/trump-voter-base-support-loss\">beginning to turn against the conflict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/22\/trump-iran-war-unpopular-expensive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s response to the Iran war\u2019s mounting death toll and astronomical costs? \u2018It won\u2019t have any impact on me\u2019 This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday Could it be \u2026 that Donald Trump isn\u2019t a team player? The midterm elections are less than &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s war on Iran is unpopular and expensive. He\u2019s perfectly OK with that\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/trumps-war-on-iran-is-unpopular-and-expensive-hes-perfectly-ok-with-that\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s war on Iran is unpopular and expensive. He\u2019s perfectly OK with that\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}