POLITICS: Mamdani, Schumer, AOC battling for most idiotic response to Trump’s Iran strikes

Boy is the competition stiff for most idiotic response to Operation Midnight Hammer.

NYC lefty “it boy” Zohran Mamdani is one clear leader of the pack: “Donald Trump ran for president promising to end wars, not start new ones,” the failed rapper posted on X.

And: “Today’s unconstitutional military action represents a dark, new chapter in his endless betrayals that now threaten to plunge the world deeper into chaos.”

Wrong on virtually every count: As the president noted Saturday night, Iran’s been waging war on our country since it seized the hostages back in 1979, through its sponsorship of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, its provision of IEDs to slaughter our troops in Afhganistan and Iraq and on to its efforts to assassinate Trump.

By finishing off Tehran’s nuclear program, the prez moved decisively to end Israel’s strikes on Iran by eliminating their target.

And defanging the monsters who run the Islamic Republic is a blow against chaos that opens the door to a brighter future for the entire region.

Naturally, Mamdani’s less-radical rivals for Democrats’ mayoral nomination felt obliged to also condemn Trump, with Andrew Cuomo (Dems’ “it boy” of 2020!) whining about how “Trump went about this without consulting Congress, without consulting the normal congressional officials” blah-blah-blah.

That’s the same approach embraced by most national Democrats, including ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

Which is beyond pathetic, as all of them are on record praising President Barack Obama’s various unilateral, left-Congress-in-the-dark actions from doing “regime change” in Libya by taking out Moammer Khadafy to his multiple drone assassinations of US citizens such as Anwar Al-Awlaki.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez basically sits in the same camp as Mamdani (her preferred mayoral candidate, of course) with the added filip of claiming Trump’s actions are “absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

In fact, the US strikes were plainly legal, covered (like Obama’s) by Congress’ open-ended authorizations for presidential force back in 2003 — resolutions that neither party has sought to repeal even when both Houses of Congress are held by the presidential-opposition party.

Yes, it’d be wonderful if the House and Senate were willing to do their duties in matters of war and peace, but instead they’ve chosen not to — and to just carp about the other team’s leadership.

This also means Trump had no responsibility to brief top Democrats in advance of the strikes — and that no word of the coming attacks leaked suggests he was wise to shut them out.

We certainly wouldn’t trust the likes of Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to put the safety of Americans headed into a war zone above his partisan desire to undermine anything and everything Donald Trump is doing.

Let us not forget the international contestants in the idiot sweepstakes: UN Secretary-General António Guterres (last seen thundering that Israel’s strikes on Iran could “ignite a fire no one can control”) denounced Trump’s “dangerous escalation” as “a direct threat to international peace and security” before droning on about supposed “rules of international law.”

That is: He’s still pretending Iran isn’t one of the main threats to other nations’ safety, and that stopping it is somehow an “escalation.”

Russia and China of course condemned the US strikes, but all should note that that’s literally the least they could do to support their ally Iran.

We guess British Prime Minister Keir Starmer can represent the countless fools of Western Europe in the competition, adding to the chorus of clueless handwringing over the supposed “risk of escalation” even as he admitted Iran’s nuke program posed a “grave threat to international security” and called for “a diplomatic solution to end this crisis.”

OK: Tehran should end the crisis by calling it quits on attacking Israel so the Israelis don’t need to keep taking out Iranian missile launchers etc., and by foreswearing any response to the US strikes; it certainly shouldn’t try to close the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping if it doesn’t want half its Navy sunk again (as was its fate the last time it tried that stunt).

No one else can or should offer the Islamic Republic a damned thing except what’s been on the table from the start: Verifiably end your nuke quest, stop attacking other countries (remember its utterly unprovoked strikes on Israel last year) and other nations will leave you alone.

It’s all clear as crystal, even if so many idiots insist on pretending otherwise.