夏皮罗目前正在竞选连任，但也被视为2028年民主党总统候选人的可能性人选。他在奥巴马前助手乔恩·洛维特的播客中发表了上述言论，还表示中国正在密切关注特朗普政府在与以色列联合开展伊朗行动时展现出的”软弱”。
这位民主党人表示，他对赫格塞斯管理战争部行动的方式感到不安，并指出宾夕法尼亚州人是参与伊朗进攻行动的部队成员之一。
“我还对这样一个事实感到不满：应该负责此次行动的人——彼得·赫格塞斯——极其无能，”夏皮罗说道。
“他就像个八岁孩子每天玩玩具士兵一样。他的语言简直他妈的冒犯。”
夏皮罗称，政府在描述此次行动时，对”该地区的人性”以及参与行动的美国士兵表现出不尊重——他补充说，这些士兵中包括宾夕法尼亚州人。
他表示，国会本有机会制衡特朗普和赫格塞斯的权力，但却选择成为”极其软弱可怜的人”，拱手让出权力。
“你绝对不能相信唐纳德·特朗普会打这场战争，”夏皮罗说道，他还补充说，政府的说法在确定袭击伊朗的单一理由上没有达成共识。
“一开始他告诉我们是为了打击伊朗的核武库……然后又说我们参战是因为如果不这样做，以色列会率先发动袭击[而且]以色列迫使我们出手……然后又说是为了政权更迭，而现在我们面对的是阿亚图拉阿里·哈梅内伊的儿子，他似乎比他父亲更危险。”
然而，夏皮罗称伊朗政权正如批评者所说的那样糟糕，阿里·哈梅内伊是个”坏人”，几十年来在高呼”死亡到美国”的同时，监督着全球最大规模的恐怖主义输出。
“这些是坏人——这并不难承认。”
但夏皮罗指出，特朗普”从未在椭圆形办公室——他本应在那里，而不是在佛罗里达州的游泳俱乐部——直视美国人民的眼睛，告诉他们’这就是我们必须这么做的原因，这是迫在眉睫的威胁’——而我们后来发现根本不存在迫在眉睫的威胁。”
夏皮罗表示，美国的敌人正在观察这场战争，看到的是软弱而非力量。
“中国国家主席习近平每天都在盘算何时对台湾采取行动，他看到美国总统不仅没能团结世界支持这一行动……甚至无法团结自己的人民。”
他指出，尽管他对前总统乔治·W·布什的反恐战争有批评，但这位得克萨斯州共和党人确实能够成功团结公众支持这项事业。
身为犹太人的夏皮罗，也经常在中东动荡期间因极左翼表现出的反犹主义而与自己的政党产生分歧——包括谴责宾夕法尼亚大学西费城校区犹太学生受到的骚扰。
当被问及夏皮罗的评论时，白宫发言人奥利维亚·威尔士表示，50年来，两党总统都谈到要消除伊朗对美国人民的威胁，但特朗普是唯一有”勇气直面这一威胁”的人。
“特朗普总统一直明确此次行动的目标：摧毁伊朗政权的弹道导弹及生产能力，消灭伊朗政权的海军，终止其武装代理势力的能力，并确保伊朗永远无法获得核武器，”她在夏皮罗质疑政府目标时说道。
“民主党人会对任何事情都出尔反尔——甚至为那些高呼’死亡到美国’的国家辩护——只为攻击特朗普总统，但总统和他的政府将永远保护我们的国家，并将美国人民放在首位，”威尔士补充道。
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro blistered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s command of the Iran War as if he’s “playing with toy soldiers” and condemned the way the Pentagon and White House are describing the military operation to the public.
Shapiro, who is running for reelection but is also seen as a 2028 Democratic presidential possibility, made the remarks on former Obama aide Jon Lovett’s podcast where he also said China is monitoring the Trump administration’s “weakness” as they carry out the Iran operation alongside Israel.
The Democrat said he is troubled with Hegseth’s management of the Department of War’s effort, noting that Pennsylvanians are part of the contingent involved in the Iran offensive.
“I also have a problem with the fact that the guy who is supposed to be in charge of this, Pete Hegseth, is wildly incompetent,” Shapiro said.
“He’s like an eight-year-old playing with toy soldiers every day. His language is so f—ing offensive.”
Shapiro said the administration talks about the operation in a way that is disrespectful of the “humanity in the region” and of the American soldiers involved, which he added includes Pennsylvanians.
He said Congress had its chance to check Trump and Hegseth’s power but instead decided to be “wildly weak and pathetic souls” who gave away authority.
“You absolutely cannot trust Donald Trump to wage this war,” Shapiro said, adding that the administration’s messaging did not settle on a singular reason for attacking Iran.
“First he told us it was to go after their nuclear arsenal … then he said we went to war because if we didn’t, Israel was going to strike first [and] Israel forced our hand … then it was regime change, and now we’re left with the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who seemingly could be more dangerous than the father.”
Shapiro said the Iranian regime is, however, everything that critics say it is, and that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a “bad guy” who oversaw the largest export of terrorism worldwide while chanting “Death To America” for decades.
“These are bad people — it shouldn’t be hard to say that.”
But Shapiro said Trump “never once looked the American people in the eye, sitting in the Oval Office — where he should’ve been, not his swim club in Florida — and said to the American people ‘This is why we have to do this, this is the imminent threat’ — of which we’ve learned there is no imminent threat.”
Shapiro said America’s enemies are watching the war and seeing weakness instead of strength.
“President Xi in China, who is calculating every day about when he is going to make his move on Taiwan, saw the president of the United States not only not be able to rally the world around this cause … but couldn’t even rally his own people.”
He noted that while he has criticisms of former President George W. Bush’s War on Terror, the Texas Republican properly rallied the public to the cause.
Shapiro, who is Jewish, has also often broken with his own party over antisemitic displays from the far left amid the unrest in the Middle East — including condemnation of harassment of Jewish students at the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia.
When asked about Shapiro’s comments, White House spokesperson Olivia Wales said that for 50 years, presidents of both parties have talked about eliminating the Iranian threat to the American people, but that Trump is the only one with the “courage to confront it.”
“President Trump has been clear about the goals of this operation: destroy the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile and production capacity, annihilate the Iranian regime’s Navy, end their ability to arm proxies, and guarantee that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon,” she said as Shapiro questioned the administration’s goals.
“Democrats will flip-flop on anything – even carrying water for a nation that chants ‘Death to America’ – in order to attack President Trump, but the President and his administration will always protect our Nation and put the American people first,” Wales added.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Pentagon for comment.
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