Overview
- The View hosts, reacting Wednesday, turned Marco Rubio’s phrase back on the administration and said the war is causing “generational destruction” in the United States.
- Rubio had warned Iran it risked “generational destruction” if it kept targeting ships in the Strait of Hormuz and charging tolls on transiting vessels.
- The panel said Rubio, President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance keep sending mixed signals, with Joy Behar joking they are “the Three Stooges of the apocalypse.”
- Reporting cited a Pentagon estimate that the over-two-month war has cost about $25 billion and killed thousands of people.
- The hosts tied the conflict to higher costs for Americans, pointing to AAA’s national gas-price average of about $4.53 a gallon, up roughly 30 cents in a week.