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Hillary Clinton says Trump ‘fully unhinged,’ Vance-led Iran talks ‘a joke’

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by Max Rego - 04/13/26 4:21 PM ET

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by Max Rego - 04/13/26 4:21 PM ET

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took President Trump to task on Monday for a spate of “unhinged” social media posts and slammed his administration’s approach to negotiations with Iran.

Speaking to hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” the former first lady and senator said Trump should be held “accountable” for his words, not just his actions.

Last week, the president wrote on his Truth Social platform that a “whole civilization will die” in Iran if Tehran did not acceed to his demands. Then, on Orthodox Easter Sunday, he posted a lengthy rant about Pope Leo XIV and shared an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ — the latter of which appears to have been deleted from his account.

“Words, especially from an American president, have real consequences,” Clinton added. “And when you look at the last week of unhinged rants from Trump’s social media accounts, it’s just disgraceful. I mean, threatening civilizational genocide, threatening Pope Leo.”

Later Monday, Clinton highlighted her interview on social platform X and wrote, “Trump has become fully unhinged and we should talk about it.”

She also said on MS NOW that Trump and Vice President Vance “prattle on and on about Western civilization, [but] I don’t think they’ve ever taken a course” on that subject.

“Western civilization has a real meaning. It is a meaning about our values, our institutions,” continued Clinton, who lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential election. “This country of ours is a result of the development, over centuries, of Western civilization. It is about how we hold leaders accountable, so they don’t become autocrats and dictators, and how they don’t lead us into reckless wars and really unhinged attacks on the first American pope.”

After the president’s threat to Iran — which he defended on Sunday — multiple Democratic lawmakers called for the House to impeach him for a third time and for his cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. Clinton also said that the country should hold Trump to a “standard” for his conduct.

“The standard should be American democracy, our institutions, the rule of law, how we conduct ourselves,” she remarked. “And it’s not just about the laws we pass, but the norms that we follow, all of which have been broken by this president.”

Clinton also panned the Trump administration’s approach to negotiations with Iran, after Vance, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, departed Pakistan without having agreed to a deal with their Iranian counterparts.

“This is hard work,” Clinton said. “You don’t just show up in Geneva or Islamabad, talk for a bunch of hours, and go away. This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any results.”

“And I don’t see this administration either wanting to do it or, frankly, being capable of doing it because they send the same three people around the world — two of them, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, they’re supposed to solve Ukraine, Iran, Gaza — it’s a joke,” she continued.

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