Fox News’ Marc Thiessen says Americans have to accept higher inflation and gas prices or “we’re not a superpower anymore”
Thiessen: “He inherited a situation where our country was no longer respected. … we had the Chinese balloon incident.”
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From the March 13, 2026, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier
MARC THIESSEN (GUEST): As to what we were talking about before about the comment he made, look, what Donald Trump is doing in Iran is the most important thing any American president has done since Ronald Reagan brought down the Berlin Wall. He is restoring American strength on the world stage and he is disarming a terrorist regime of the possibility of getting a nuclear weapon. If we cannot accept a few months of higher inflation and a few months of higher gas prices in order to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, we're not a super power anymore.
And Donald Trump is behaving like the leader of a super power. He inherited a situation where our country was no longer respected. We had the Afghan withdrawal, we had the Chinese balloon incident that you alluded to, people thought -- the Chinese, the Russians, everybody thought we were weak. And he's restoring American strength on the world stage and what he's doing in Iran is hugely important but it has to end in victory.