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\u201cThis attack might be a bad idea, I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m not really an expert on Iran. So let\u2019s hear from someone who can explain why we might\u2019ve done it,\u201d said Jost, teeing up a 2011 clip of Trump that has resurfaced on social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cOur president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate,\u201d warned Trump of then-President Barack Obama<\/a> in the clip, part of a history of similar claims<\/a> he made about his political foe at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cHe\u2019s weak, and he\u2019s ineffective.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The host of the \u201cSNL<\/a>\u201d news segment nodded in agreement to the clip, remarking, \u201cYeah, yeah. See, now that\u2019s the Trump I voted for!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Back in 2011, Trump charged Obama with wanting to attack Iran in order to win a second term and supported his theory by declaring that Obama\u2019s poll numbers were in a \u201ctailspin\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump \u2014 who is wading in abysmal polling numbers<\/a> \u2014 has defended Saturday\u2019s deadly military offensive as necessary and claimed that Iran was building nuclear weapons that could \u201csoon\u201d reach the U.S., though such a claim isn\u2019t backed up<\/a> by U.S. intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Watch more of \u201cWeekend Update\u201d in the clips below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThis attack might be a bad idea, I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m not really an expert on Iran. So let\u2019s hear from someone who can explain why we might\u2019ve done it,\u201d said Jost, teeing up a 2011 clip of Trump that has resurfaced on social media. \u201cOur president will start a war with Iran because he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2307763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[352943,22389,364881,22335,356573],"class_list":["post-2307762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-colin-jost","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-snl","tag-weekend-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Weekend-Update-Tears-Apart-Trumps-Iran-Attack-Using-This-Key.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307764,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307762\/revisions\/2307764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}