A viral video of New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman suggesting he’d rather have the U.S. lose the Iran war than see President Donald Trump succeed is the epitome of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), iconic Fox News Channel Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume says.
“Don’t want Iran to lose if it means Trump wins,” Media Research Center Vice President Brent Baker explained Saturday in a X.com post introducing video of Friedman telling CNN that he’d like the U.S. to prevail – but, not if President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu are responsible for the victory:
“Don’t want Iran to lose if it means Trump wins. @TomFriedman of @NYTimes really wants ‘to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region’” but on CNN’s @Smerconish he fretted ‘the problem is I really don’t want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are two awful human beings. They are both engaged in anti-democratic projects in their own countries. They’re both alleged crooks. They are terrible, terrible people doing terrible things to America’s standing in the world and Israel’s standing in the world.’”
The video post exposing Friedman’s priorities has garnered more than a million views to-date.
The columnist’s anti-Trump-at-all-costs attitude is “A perfect distillation of TDS,” Hume replied to the video of Friedman’s comments.
“What kind of sick hate must @tomfriedman have that he roots for USA to lose to a terrorist regime who has killed thousands of Americans?” U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee asked, reacting to the video on X.com. “I didn’t vote for Obama but I praised him for taking out Bin Laden,” the former Arkansas governor added.
Friedman’s sentiment “bluntly shines a terrible light” on why the so-called “mainstream” media (MSM) can’t be trusted, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer wrote.
“Friedman’s thinking infects virtually all reporters in the MSM,” Fleischer’s post warns:
“Tom Friedman of the NYT bluntly shines a terrible light on how much of the liberal MSM covers ALL the news. Their anti-Trump bias taints how they cover the news, to the point where they are torn over the Iran War because they don’t want Trump to win it.
“This is why it’s so hard to trust the accuracy and fairness of the MSM. They don’t exist to play it straight and cover the news. They exist to support their anti-Trump point of view.
“And don’t tell me Friedman is a columnist so he’s different. Friedman’s thinking infects virtually all reporters in the MSM. They are very much cut from the same cloth.”
Don’t want Iran to lose if it means Trump wins. @TomFriedman of @NYTimes really wants “to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region,” but on CNN’s @Smerconish he fretted “the problem is I really don’t want to see Bibi… pic.twitter.com/rgPngGXkGc
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) April 11, 2026
