Chuck Schumer GOES OFF on ‘Completely Unfit’ Commander-in-Chief Trump: ‘The Whole World Knows It’

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Donald Trump’s address to the nation Wednesday night about the state of the war in Iran left Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seething and calling the president “completely unfit” to be commander-in-chief.

Trump’s 19-minute primetime speech has been criticized for revealing nothing new or substantial to an American public that’s worried about rising gasoline prices and the potential for U.S. troops on the ground that could become mired in a lengthy conflict.

“Thanks to the progress we’ve made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” Trump said during his speech. “We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.”

Trump added that if the Islamic Republic doesn’t strike a peace deal, “We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages [sic], where they belong.”

Trump also repeated his contention that the Strait of Hormuz would just naturally open up at the end of the war, and that it would be up to NATO nations to go get their oil.

Schumer seemed appalled that Trump gave no definitive guidelines for ending the war, or retrieving Iran’s enriched uranium that’s buried under rubble near Ifshan.

“Has there ever been a more rambling, disjointed, and pathetic presidential war speech?” Schumer asked on social media shortly after Trump wrapped up his speech.

“Donald Trump’s actions in Iran will be considered one of the greatest policy blunders in the history of our country, failing to articulate objectives, alienating allies, and ignoring the kitchen table problems Americans are facing,” Schumer wrote, adding, “He is completely unfit to be Commander-in-Chief and the whole world knows it.”

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian issued an open letter Wednesday urging Americans to question the war’s impact on the nation.

“Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war?” Pezeshkian wrote.

“Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country ‘back to the stone ages’ serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States’ global standing?” he wrote.

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