Comedian Dave Smith, a libertarian and frequent guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, is now apologizing for his support of the president due to his recent handling of the escalating Israel–Iran conflict.
“He should be impeached and removed for this one,” said Smith, referring to his endorsement as a “bad calculation,” in remarks that stunned the hosts of the “Breaking Points” program on Monday.
He later continued, “All of his supporters should turn on him, it’s the absolute betrayal of everything he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood for.”
Trump — amid days of missiles exchanged between Israel and Iran— hasn’t ruled out U.S. involvement in the conflict and claimed that Iranian officials would “like to talk” at the negotiating table to wind down tensions.
By Monday evening, he scolded Iran for not signing a deal, calling the move a “shame” and a “waste of human life” before stressing that the country shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon and calling for the immediate evacuation of Tehran.
Over the years, Trump has notably touted himself as being anti-war, labeled himself as a “peacemaker” during his second inaugural address and also openly advised against getting involved in any Iranian regime change.
Smith argued that Iran’s leadership has now been pushed to a point where they “probably don’t feel that they have the option not to respond” after strikes that killed the country’s top military officials and hit its nuclear facilities.
“And Donald Trump telling them to come back to the negotiating table now is a joke, I mean, what an impotent leader to be sitting there coming back to the negotiating table,” he said.
“It’s like sitting after Pearl Harbor and telling FDR, ‘Now’s the time to go negotiate with the Japanese.’ Negotiations are over now, the time for negotiations was before this,” he continued.
Smith later predicted that the president is “going to lose his coalition” over his handling of the most recent conflict.
“I don’t just speak for myself when I say there are a lot of us who simply will not go along with this, so it’s just a devastating mistake,” he emphasized.
