MAGA commentator branded ‘dumbest man on the internet’ after blunders go viral

Conservative commentator Dave Rubin, who for months has been a top booster of President Donald Trump’s illegal war with Iran, was inundated with mockery on Sunday after a viral video exposed months’ worth of his failed predictions about the conflict.

The video, which was posted on social media Saturday, begins with Rubin telling viewers to not listen to any of the prognostications being made by critics of the war, which Trump launched in late February without any authorization from Congress.

“I’m pretty good with predictions,” Rubin says. “And my prediction here is that everything the media is now going to say about Iran—it’s going to close the Strait of Hormuz, and energy prices are going to go crazy—none of this is going to come to pass.”

The video then cuts to Rubin wrongly predicting that gas prices during the conflict “will continue to come down,” before switching to claims that Iran lacks the military capability to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed in the face of US military power.

“If the United States wants to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, which it does,” says Rubin, “and Donald Trump says we’ll escort ships through if we have to, it’s going to stay open.”

From there, the video shows Rubin hyping up the prospect of Iranian dissident Reza Pahlavi swooping in to take over the country after the war, and then getting fooled by a fake artificial intelligence-generated video of Iranians giving thanks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bombing their country.

The video compilation of Rubin’s failed predictions drew immediate ridicule from critics.

“He’s the Jim Cramer of Iran war predictions,” joked Krystal Ball.

Commentator Adam Mockler wrote of Rubin that “it’s brutal watching him make failed predictions week after week.”

Journalist Glenn Greenwald argued that the video should be the last nail in the coffin of whatever credibility Rubin had left.

“Imagine having sat through and listened to all of this Israeli propaganda, which turned out to be (predictably and completely) false,” commented Greenwald, “and then thinking there was some value in continuing to listen to this person.”

The Bulwark’s Tim Miller said that while he knew Rubin was “a smooth-brained hack,” he still “couldn’t even fathom how bad these war takes would be.”

Political analyst Omar Baddar, meanwhile, said the video should erase any doubt that Rubin is “the dumbest man on the internet.”