{"id":94419,"date":"2026-06-02T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/john-tamny-if-trump-did-what-he-was-supposed-to-do-he-wouldnt-be-president\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:42:49","slug":"john-tamny-if-trump-did-what-he-was-supposed-to-do-he-wouldnt-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/john-tamny-if-trump-did-what-he-was-supposed-to-do-he-wouldnt-be-president\/","title":{"rendered":"John Tamny: &#8220;If Trump Did What He Was &#8216;Supposed&#8217; To Do, He Wouldn&#8217;t Be President&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny, Margaret Talev, director of Syracuse University&#8217;s Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship, and Punchbowl News reporter Andrew Desiderio joined Chris Stirewalt on &#8220;The Hill Sunday&#8221; to discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/27\/trump_iran_thought_it_could_outwait_me_until_after_midterms_i_dont_care_about_the_midtermsi_dont_care_about_the_midterms.html\">President Trump&#8217;s comment<\/a> that Iran thought they could outwait him by lasting until the midterms, but he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;care about the midterms.&#8221;   &#8220;If Trump did what he was supposed to do, he would not be president. Let&#8217;s never forget that,&#8221; Tamny said. &#8220;He&#8217;s never taken advice. He&#8217;s in the White House. The people who took advice never even got to run for president. He&#8217;s been elected twice!&#8221;  &#8220;So he&#8217;s gotten reinforcement in his relatively brief political career, like, &#8216;I should trust my instincts,&#8217; as we&#8217;ll say,&#8221; Stirewalt added.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/01\/john_tamny_if_trump_did_what_he_was_supposed_to_do_he_wouldnt_be_president.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny, Margaret Talev, director of Syracuse University&#8217;s Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship, and Punchbowl News reporter Andrew Desiderio joined Chris Stirewalt on &#8220;The Hill Sunday&#8221; to discuss President Trump&#8217;s comment that Iran thought they could outwait him by lasting until the midterms, but he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;care about the midterms.&#8221; &#8220;If Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4386,2635,2502,25040,5395,4460],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}