CNN host shocked by Trump’s 'extraordinary shift' on 2 key policy platforms

President Donald Trump spoke to CNN's Dana Bash on Friday, revealing some details that left the morning hosts shocked.

Host John Berman was so surprised by some of the comments by Trump, which Berman called it an "extraordinary shift."

"Particularly notable," Berman began, is "the idea that [Trump] said of rising gas prices, the highest they've ever been under a President Trump, he said, 'that's okay,' and suggested they will go down soon."

"The other thing about the idea — and I think we can call it regime change, I will put it in quotes, because the United States continues to insist that regime change is not the goal of this war. But when he says he's picking the leader is a condition of it, that is regime change."

Berman noted that it appeared right after Trump got off the phone with Bash, he posted on TruthSocial:

"There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).' Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

While Trump may claim that the goal isn't regime change, Berman noted that the reality is that Trump wanted to take out the leader and install his own person whom he personally chooses.

"That's an extraordinary shift," said Berman. "That's a different place than they were one week ago, when they said destroying the missiles was the goal of this conflict."

The shift appeared to happen over the past 72 hours, after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave a press conference claiming that Iran didn't have nuclear weapons but they "intended" to one day.

"And the intelligence that we saw, saw they didn't intend to do it in good faith, uh, that they had the intentions eventually to get, um, to a place where they could have that — a conventional shield to block their nuclear capabilities, as I talked about yesterday. So, I would separate the what from the when a little bit. The what, is they've been killing Americans for 47 years," Hegseth claimed, according to the DOD transcript.

Earlier this week, the Trump administration was just as confused about the war's timeline, offering five answers over two days.

Trump also told CNN that he has his eye on going after Cuba next.

"I'm going to put Marco over there to see how it works," Trump told Bash, referencing Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has been the source of several memes since Trump began throwing various positions and jobs at him in the first year.

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