Jesse Watters praises Trump's Iran approach and advocates for bombing Iranian power plants: “It can be done humanely”
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From the April 6, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Five
DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): President Trump then sparring with the press in his usual off-the-cuff style. Listen to how he responded when asked about his threat to bomb Iran's power plants and bridges if a deal is not struck by 8 p.m. ET tomorrow.
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PERINO: Well, Jesse, that is different from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who looked into the camera and said, don't.
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): Yeah. Democrats calling Trump crazy helps Trump. It makes him look like he's this madman who's totally unrestrained and unwilling — or willing — to do anything to win the war. So the Iranians look at that and they go, uh-oh, we'd better sign something. This guy's really willing to do it all.
But I didn't think his tweets were any more bombastic than they usually are, and bombing power plants is not a war crime. Bill Clinton destroyed Serbia's entire energy infrastructure. Both Bushes took out Iraq's electricity grid. Rolling Thunder, North Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson took out the power plants. You do it under the laws of warfare, proportionality, dual use systems. It can be done humanely.