On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime on MS NOW, contributor and former George W. Bush aide Elise Jordan urged that Trump administration officers supporting navy motion towards Iran have been motivated by psychological insecurity, accusing them of treating battle like a “online game” and trying to “train their repressed masculinity.”
Jordan made the comment throughout a dialogue of a dignified switch ceremony earlier within the day at Dover Air Power Base for six fallen U.S. service members.
Co-host Antonia Hylton requested Jordan whether or not witnessing the return of fallen troops would possibly have an effect on President Trump or the senior officers who accompanied him to the ceremony.
Hylton famous that Trump was joined by the vice chairman, the First and Second Girls, White Home Chief of Workers Susie Wiles, envoy Steve Witkoff, and Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi, asking whether or not seeing the fallen introduced dwelling would possibly “change the calculus” for the administration.
Jordan lectured it was “good” that the officers attended as a result of “they should see the true value of what going to battle, and what this battle goes to imply. It is going to imply much more women and men coming dwelling in that means.” However she rapidly pivoted from discussing the realities of fight to questioning the motives of Trump officers, suggesting their help for the battle stemmed from insecurity and what she referred to as “fake bravado.”
Jordan accused members of the administration of treating the battle like a “online game” and implied they have been utilizing the battle to compensate for private insecurities:
“And much too many members of this administration have been treating it prefer it’s a online game and a few approach to, , train their repressed masculinity that they’ve points with, I assume.
However all of the fake bravado, it simply, it actually does make me wish to puke in my abdomen as a result of there is a sure humility that you need to have only for the lives that you just’re impacting on the bottom and the women and men you’re sending to do this and the ethical harm that you will trigger completely to them.”
Jordan wasn’t merely criticizing administration coverage. She urged Trump officers have been pushed by psychological deficiencies, and it makes her sick.
Here is the transcript:
MS NOW
The Weekend: Primetime
3/7/26
6:07 pm ETANTONIA HYLTON: Can I ask you, Elise, , everybody watched the dignified switch occur solely a pair hours in the past, and presidents typically attend them, they don’t all the time, however that is the primary time that President Trump has attended a dignified switch for a battle that he really began.
And I ponder, since you’ve been across the determination makers, the price of battle, in the event you suppose in any respect seeing one thing like this occur so early on within the combating, will change the calculus, even when it does not change it for President Trump, for anybody round him.
As a result of he was there, the vice chairman was there, the First and Second Woman have been there, Susie Wiles was there, Steve Witkoff, Pam Bondi was there.
I imply, the whole internal circle stood by and watched these six fallen service members go by. Does that do one thing to individuals?
ELISE JORDAN: It is good that they did, as a result of they should see the true value of what going to battle, and what this battle goes to imply.
It is going to imply much more women and men coming dwelling in that means. Regardless of what we do and regardless of our greatest intentions, that is the tough actuality of it.
And much too many members of this administration have been treating it prefer it’s a online game and a few approach to, , train their repressed masculinity that they’ve points with, I assume.
However all of the fake bravado, it simply, it actually does make me wish to puke in my abdomen as a result of there is a sure humility that you need to have only for the lives that you just’re impacting on the bottom and the women and men you’re sending to do this and the ethical harm that you will trigger completely to them.
