A prominent journalist at two right-leaning outlets has compared President Donald Trump’s Iran war messaging to that of Saddam Hussein’s notorious chief spokesperson during the invasion of Iraq, “Baghdad Bob.”
Gerard Baker, a Fox News contributor and the former Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief compared Trump to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraq's minister of information during the 2003 U.S. invasion. He earned the nicknames "Baghdad Bob" and "Comical Ali" in the west due to colorfully delivered and optimistic but wildly inaccurate statements about the ongoing war.
