Piers Morgan Urges Trump to Ignore ‘Lunatic Warmongers’ and Get US Out of ‘Insane’ War — in Jab at Ben Shapiro

Piers Morgan is urging President Donald Trump to ignore those who want him to prolong the Iran war, especially Ben Shapiro, who recently called on the U.S. to go beyond the Biblical quote of “an eye for an eye,” in favor of “an eye for everything.”

“President Trump needs to ignore these lunatic warmongers and get the US out of this insane Iran war asap,” Morgan posted to X Friday, along with a clip of Shapiro’s podcast.

In the clip, Shapiro talked about the American love of “victory.”

“I get why people are confused and upset. It feels like things are stalemated, that they’re getting broader, and more difficult. Why? Well, because what the American people want is victory,” Shapiro said, adding:

There’s this bizarre notion in foreign policy that the American people are deeply worried about the immediate cost of war to the enemy, that the American people, that we can’t handle the ugliness of war for even a day, that every conflict has to be totally antiseptic. And here I’m not even talking about the American willingness to undergo casualties. No one in America wants American casualties, it’s tragedy and a horror.

We do understand that war does come along with casualties, and we are willing to undergo those casualties in pursuit of an end and a victory for America. But as far as the idea that, for example, America, we can’t hit Kharg Island because the Iranian people would then be deprived of oil resources. The American people are, I should say, not particularly concerned about that. We are far more concerned with why we’re there, not winning.

I think the way we actually ought to do is say ‘an eye for everything,’ like, you touch a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, and we kill the head of the IRGC…we kill your entire leadership class….one drone, and that’s what happens. That is the way you win in the Middle East, by the way, that’s the way you win generally.

Piers has also come out against Fox News host Mark Levin, calling him a “war hawk” who has encouraged Trump to “finish” off Iran.

Watch the clip above via The Ben Shapiro Show on YouTube.

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