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Trump Skewered For Taking Cues From 'Neocon Boomers' He Once Called 'Warmongers'

Present Donald Trump got roasted for following the lead of conflict-hungry Republican “warmongers” and “neocon boomers” during a panel debate about the war in Iran on Tuesday’s episode of “CNN NewsNight.”

“Back in the day, Trump used to call Lindsey Graham and his ilk warmongers,” host Abby Phillip remarked. “He used to suggest that it was like **** Cheney and Lindsey Graham were in a cabal together. He now has Lindsey Graham in his ear every day.”

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Stalwart Trump supporters have been openly dismayed at Graham’s apparent influence when it comes to war with Iran, a conflict the senator has celebrated with a barrage of media appearances since joint U.S.-Israeli attacks began earlier this month.

By Phillip’s read, Trump has not only trampled over his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of global conflict but seems to have little vision for where the endpoint will be when it comes to Operation Epic Fury.

“I think that’s what some people are worried about, is that the mission creep has already begun,” she said. “Trump has already shifted from saying that he was antiwar to being very interested in doing whatever he thinks he needs to do.”

Panelist and MeidasTouch commentator Adam Mockler then fumed about the downstream impact another conflict in the Middle East will have on younger generations, both economically and politically.

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“You wanna know what makes me so angry listening to people like Lindsey Graham and listening to the $1 billion a day toll?” he asked.

“Is that the neocon boomers surrounding Donald Trump are mortgaging my generation’s future for another endless, maybe endless, but another very expensive Middle Eastern war,” said Mockler, who is 23.

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“We tried this with Iraq, we tried this with Afghanistan,” he went on, pointing out how the U.S. is still paying back the trillions of dollars those conflicts cost — with interest.

That debt “is amassing, and it’s going to affect my generation for decades to come,” he added, “because the old people know they can start wars because young people don’t have the power to stop them, so the old people make us foot the bill.”

But for Mockler, the biggest rub was how the GOP continues “gaslighting” Americans about what the nation can and cannot afford.

“They say that it’s fiscally irresponsible for us to invest in health care, for us to invest at home in my generation and the future. The Affordable Care Act subsidies that they were arguing over were $50 billion. $50 billion.”

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After blowing through an estimated $3.7 billion in the first 100 hours of the war, the Pentagon is expected to soon ask Congress for a reported $50 billion supplemental budget for operations in the Middle East.

Despite mounting concerns about cost and strategy, Trump seemed certain he had control over the situation during a Wednesday morning phone call with Axios.

Asked where the conflict stood, he said, “Any time I want it to end, it will end.”

While the president has avoided laying out an exact timeline, Axios reports that U.S. and Israeli officials are anticipating at least two more weeks of strikes in Iran.