Dems Get Worse With Argument That Trump Needed Congressional Authorization to Bomb Iran

Today’s Democratic party has worked hard to earn a pathetic 30 percent approval rating with the American people. The left has fought harder for illegal immigrants than US citizens, these radicals care more about sending money to Ukraine than rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, and the Democrats also focus more on what these individuals refer to as climate change than any issue most people in this country actually care about. The Democratic party represents nobody and no one, and that’s why Trump won both a landslide in the Electoral College and a comfortable margin with the popular vote in 2024.

Still, the left managed to hit a new low this week by actually trying to make the absurd argument that President Trump needs congressional approval to take an Iranian nuclear program that past administrations of both parties have struggled to deal with for decades. Former President Barack Obama dropped 26,171 bombs on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan without Congress’s Approval, in 2016 alone, not one Democrat challenged his legal authority or brought up impeachment. To put this comparison in context, President Trump has dropped 35 bombs so far this year in 2025, and there are still a large number of Democrats calling his action unconstitutional, with some fringe figures on the left such as AOC even calling for his impeachment.

The Executive branch has the sole authority to conduct foreign policy, and the President is the only chief executive of this branch, the emergency war powers the constitution gives Trump are very clear. Iran was enriching uranium at close to 60 percent, the consensus in the intelligence community remains that the country could have developed nuclear weapons in a short time, and Trump, unlike Obama, wanted to let the vile Iranian regime as well as the rest of the world know that his red lines have meaning.

There are many obvious legal as well as policy issues with Trump going to Congress to seek approval for a 2-hour mission the US Air Force conducted. First, if the President had sought legislative consent, he would have put Iran on notice weeks ahead of the operation that he intended to attack the country. Second, precedent is strongly on Trump’s side. Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia was not authorized by Congress, Bush invaded and removed Noriega without legislative support, and Obama even waged war and removed Quaddafi without any official resolution or legislation passed by the House or Senate. While Nixon was impeached for bombing Cambodia only after Watergate broke, no serious constitutional scholar believes the former President would have faced any real legal issue over his military campaign against that country. The Article II emergency war powers in the Constitution have been unanimously recognized by both parties as giving the President necessary and wide latitude to conduct both more measured as well as larger military campaigns for many decades.

Trump would have put the entire mission as well as the troops conducting this impressive operation at risk if he had publicly sought congressional support for this action. The President also would have looked weak and set a dangerous precedent moving forward, if the leader of the free world needed to ask for Congressional approval for every single military option he approved. While Congress should absolutely formally declare war before any large-scale conflict such as Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, not getting an official vote to do so was a mistake in the past, the legislative branch does not and should not have a veto over every military or foreign policy decision the President makes, elections have consequences.

The reality is that even though most Democrats and foreign nations won’t admit this fact, Trump’s military action against Iran is appreciated in many corners of the US and the world, inclduing with their party. Most of the Arab nations, including Saudi Arabia, did not want to see a nuclear Iran, and a number of moderate Democrats who opposed Obama’s Iran deal also likely supported Trump’s decisive action as well. While there are some parts of the MAGA movement opposing the President’s attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, military action was always likely going to be inevitable to fully eradicate Iran’s nuclear program. The core problem with the criticism by some Republicans of Trump’s decision to bomb Iran is that when the President correctly chose to get out of the failed Iranian Nuclear Deal Obama entered into, military actions were always likely going to be the most probably end result since the vile Iranian regime was never going to peacefully give up their nuclear ambitions. President Trump gave an Iranian government that tried to assassinate him multiple attempts to reach a deal, he used force only as a last resort, and the military operation he approved of was very targeted. Trump got it right again, and even most Democrat politicians know this, that’s why these pathetic individuals are resorting to absurd criticism of the President’s actions.