By Jack Hunter

Do you remember over the course of the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections when Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” movement promised to launch the United States into yet another Middle Eastern war, this time with Iran?

No?

No one does. Because it didn’t happen.

“When I’m back in the White House, we will expel the warmongers, the profiteers, and take over our government and we will restore world peace,” Trump said during a National Guard Association speech in August 2024 to cheers and applause.

Trump’s future Director of National Intelligence, former congresswoman, veteran and key figure in the 2024 MAGA coalition, Tulsi Gabbard, also said at the same rally:

“So I mean what I say when I share with you that I know that President Trump understands the grave responsibility that a president and Commander in Chief bears for every single one of our lives…We saw this through his first term in the presidency when he not only didn’t start any new wars, he took action to de-escalate and prevent wars…”