CNN's Clarissa Ward ashamed by Trump admin's Iran war social media posts: 'Staggering lack of humility' | Video

The Wrap via MSN ^ | March 13, 2026 | Alex Welch

[rightwingintelligentsia]

CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward joined "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Wednesday night live from Iraq, where she accused the White House of demonstrating a "staggering lack of humility" with its handling of the war in Iran so far.

Colbert asked Ward directly how she, as an on-the-ground journalist, felt about the White House's use of action movie clips and "Call of Duty" gameplay in a recent social media video covering the war in Iran. "As a journalist, I'm really not supposed to say this, but I feel deeply ashamed, and I think it belies a staggering lack of humility," she responded. "I think it just plays into the worst stereotypes about America and how America wields its power, what America cares about."

"My good friend, journalist Hala Gorani, today quoted Machiavelli, who wrote, 'Wars will begin when you will, but they do not end when you please,'" Ward noted earlier in her interview with Colbert. "I think this war is particularly disconcerting in the sense that it is so difficult to prognosticate or predict when it will end, how far it will unravel, how far the repercussions will reach."

"We're talking about 13 or 14 countries [that] have now become embroiled in one way or another with this conflict," the CNN correspondent added. "I'm not sure that that was part of the calculus going into this."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: certainlynotnews; clarissaward; clintonnonnews; cnn; iranwar; trump

[Seruzawa]

Stfu. Propaganda hag.

[jroehl]

“on-the-ground journalist” = A widely broadcast American hating skank

[Gen.Blather]

I suspect her problem is that the administration is portraying the war in a positive light and they are achieving some success by doing so. This runs the risk that the war will make Trump more popular, and the war will actually solve some of the world’s worst and most intractable problems. Can’t have that.

On another level, imagine that Obama was president now. We’d have flights every ten days carrying pallets of cash to Iran.

[whitney69]

“...she accused the White House of demonstrating a “staggering lack of humility” with its handling of the war in Iran so far...

She obviously has no idea as to the mindset of Iranian government people. They are islamists. They only understand force and confidence. If you go into a conflict with them with a spongy appearance they will take that as a sign of cowardess and fear, weakness, and will try to hit you harder. She needs to remember that these people for this are still using a mindset of centuries ago. They still enslave their women and consider anything less than islam for them inferior. She needs to bone up a little before she opens her mouth.

wy69

[Redleg Duke]

CNN circling the bowl!

[Destroyer Sailor]

This war began 47 years ago. This reporter fails to understand that. She has no historical perspective. She like so many of her kind is not a reporter but a commentator. Like Joe Friday said “ Just the Facts Mam.”. No she gives commentary. It took 47 years for the United States to hit back and a president who had the guts to do it. I pay no attention to people like her.

[MrRelevant]

Snowflakes gonna snowflake

[Theophilus]

What is “CNN”?

[Nervous Tick]

Hey Clarissa, I’m disgusted at the staggering progressive stupidity of the entirety of the British Isles! So get the hell out of my country, go home and FIX your own, skank, before you presume to tell US anything!

[neverevergiveup]

First, if the liberal media and leftist politicians weren’t trying to get characterize this operation as a disaster and a huge mistake by Trump, it wouldn’t be as necessary for the Trump administration to enumerate the overwhelming amount of success our military is having.

I would also remind Ms. Ward of a certain Hillary Clinton quote: “We came, We
saw, he died.”

[donozark]

All 13 of Colbert’s viewers were equally upset.

[tired&retired]

Humility is the Department of Defense

Winning is the Department of War

[Vision]

Make this AWFUL live in Iran and she if she grows up.

[DarthVader]

Who cares what anyone has to say from CNN the dregs of journalism!

[Judge Bean]

As a journalist? Talk about a staggering lack of humility. She ain’t no journalist. Not by a longshot.

[healy61]

Kow towing to the Mullahs to let them grow as a threat only delays the days they unleash on everyone around them. When the Mullahs are in a killing mode, they will kill Muslims just as well as anyone else, women and children first, of course. Might as well rip the scab off the wound.

[factmart]

You know all we heard for years is how we are the #1 military. But we let so much terrorism and hostage taking that it seemed at times we were a paper lion.

Now we know and the world knows, we are the bowl in china store,

Thank you President Trump

And Thank Israel, are greatest ally.

[sauropod]

/eyeroll

[Magnum44]

Woke CNN babe just afraid of testosterone….