Newsmax pundit Dick Morris has returned to his Trump-fluffing ways this year. For example:
- For Standing Up to Terror, World Owes Trump a Great Debt
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: Trump Is the New OPEC Now
- Unlike UK, Trump Made U.S. Conservatives Ideologically Coherent
- Rubio Locks In Lead for ’28
Morris also makes sure to include some of his famous misfires. A May 9 article by Solange Reyner claimed:
Political commentator Dick Morris dismissed the chances of Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner defeating Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, despite a recent poll showing Platner leading the longtime Republican incumbent by seven percentage points.
Speaking Saturday on Newsmax’s “Saturday Report,” Morris said he did not believe the polling reflected the eventual outcome of the race and predicted Collins would win reelection comfortably.
“I don’t know if that poll is right, but there is no way in hell that Platner is going to win,” Morris said.
Meanwhile, Platner was replaced as the Democratic nominee for Senate by Troy Jackson, and he’s currently ahead of Collins. Morris hasn’t weighed in on the update.
Morris gushed over trump again in a May 22 column:
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on May 20 that may have virtually assured his victory in the midterm elections later this year.
The executive order directs the government to reform and revise the systems used by hardworking Latin Americans to wire money to their families back home.
Currently tens of millions of Latin immigrants wire $93 billion annually home to provide their families with the necessities of life. When informal cash remittances are counted, the total rises to over $200 billion annually.
The companies they use to send home the money — like Western Union — typically charge fees of 8 or 9% for the service.
Trump’s order will slash the fee for remittances and also attack the fraud often perpetrated on the low-income workers who are just trying to help share the fruits of their honest labor to help their families survive.
For a president who has often been attacked as anti-immigrant, the order is a massive political master stroke to really change and improve the lives of legal immigrants who play by the rules.
Morris curiously didn’t mention that Trump’s order also requires banks to treat a customer’s immigration status as a potential financial risk, as well as requiring the use of an individual taxpayer identification number — things that could make it tougher for non-citizens to access financial services. That might hinder Trump’s appeal to Latinos and undercut Morris’ talking point.
Morris also slipped in a little downer for Trump in a March 13 column:
Presidents fail when their policy objectives become so important to them that they take over their administrations and lead them to destroy themselves.
Johnson in Vietnam, Biden in Afghanistan, and George W. Bush in Iraq are potent examples of how idealism gone astray took over a presidency and led it to ruin.
Will Iran serve as just such a snare for Trump and will his pursuit of regime change lead him to self-destruction?
Morris went on to make excuses for Trump’s bombing of Iran as successful as he would like:
The solution is for Trump to abandon regime change as his goal and instead focus on denying Iran the ability to spread terror globally.
Don’t predicate our victory or defeat on our ability to make Tehran see reason and to act based on enlightened self-interest. We must not let our easy win in Venezuela lead us to believe that we can persuade the zealots in Iran to act rationally.
We likely cannot teach Iran to respect the human rights of its own people.
But we can make it impossible for the Iranian regime to spread terror throughout the world and deny it access to nuclear weapons.
That more modest aim, still very worthwhile and deserving, must become our objective even if Iran is allowed to perpetrate horrible harm on its own people and to refuse regime change.
By scaling back our war aims, we can still succeed at the key task — curbing Iran’s ability to inflict massive global economic harm — and emerge “victorious” in this war with our president and our party intact.
We can’t stop Iran from destroying the global economy, but we can stop it from humiliating us.
And that will be good enough.
We suspect that it won’t be good enough for Morris — which is why he’s redefining what victory in Iran looks like.