{"id":3840,"date":"2026-11-05T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:04:34","slug":"trump-defends-iran-war-despite-midterm-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3840","title":{"rendered":"Trump defends Iran war despite midterm losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to wage war against Iran despite acknowledging that the conflict contributed to Republican losses in the midterm elections, while dismissing concerns that Democrats could seek to impeach him after securing control of Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said military action against Iran was necessary to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons and insisted he would make the same decision again despite its political and economic costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do. Yeah. I mean, well, you have no choice,\u201d Trump said when asked whether the war was worth it, adding that the military campaign would continue.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that the conflict had driven up gasoline prices and contributed to Republican defeats, agreeing with Vice President JD Vance\u2019s assessment that the war had alienated voters.<\/p>\n<p>Vance had attributed the party\u2019s losses to public anger over the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump insisted that military action was necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, adding that he would make the same decision again under similar circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>He also blamed Republicans\u2019 inability to translate enthusiasm for him into votes for other candidates, saying that despite strong support at his rallies, the party had failed to transfer that popularity to its candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump dismissed the prospect of impeachment following Democratic victories in the midterm elections, saying he was \u201cnot even a little bit\u201d concerned.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that any attempt by Democrats to impeach him without justification would damage their own party, while expressing willingness to work with Democratic lawmakers in the next Congress unless they sought to obstruct his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll get along probably with the Democrats unless they want to be destructive, but I have the power of the veto,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also told CNBC that he could work with Democratic majorities on more issues than many people anticipated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to wage war against Iran despite acknowledging that the conflict contributed to Republican losses in the midterm elections, while dismissing concerns that Democrats could seek to impeach him after securing control of Congress. Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said military action against Iran was necessary to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons and insisted he would make the same decision again despite its political and economic costs. \u201cI do. Yeah. I mean, well, you have no choice,\u201d Trump said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}