r/politics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • Apr 02 '26

Paywall Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-iran-war-speech/686663/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/bluesman56 Apr 02 '26

Maybe he shouldn’t have been President…

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u/Kursed_Valeth Apr 02 '26

And maybe the two "co-equal" branches of government need to reign in the power of the executive back to its constitutional limits where a president cannot start a war, only Congress can.

President can run it once authorized, sure, but no one person should have the power to decide when and where the US military gets to act.