Jewish Insider’s Melissa Weiss draws attention to a post by Senator Chris Murphy yesterday on X. In the post Murphy appears to cheer on the unconfirmed report that more than two dozen Iranian ships evaded our blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Perhaps he was being sarcastic. It’s hard to tell. He certainly opposes our efforts to throttle the Iranian regime.
awesome https://t.co/nRj1trI3rF
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 20, 2026
Providing context, Ms. Weiss adds helpfully:
Over the weekend, Murphy appeared at the Alex Soros-backed Global Progressive Summit in Barcelona, where he claimed that the U.S. was “in the middle of” a “totalitarian takeover.”
Today Bill McGurn writes in his weekly Wall Street Journal column:
Look at poor Thomas Friedman. He is about as establishment as it gets, writing a foreign-affairs column for the New York Times with three Pulitzer Prizes to his credit. And he hates Donald Trump.
But give Mr. Friedman his due. One thing that sets him apart is that he’s willing to speak openly about his bias and the untenable position it puts him in.
During a recent appearance on CNN, he told host Michael Smerconish that he was torn because he really wants to see Iran defeated. “Nothing would improve the region more,” he said, “than the replacement of this regime with a regime in Iran that was focused on enabling its people to realize their full potential and integrating peacefully with other countries and stop occupying Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.”
But here’s the rub. “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,” he said.
And there you have the twisted logic of the Hate Trump chorus…
Murphy is one more voice in the chorus, distinguished only by his repugnance.
