The United States has bullied countries in the Middle East for nearly 100 years.

Posted by REAL AF with Andy Frisella, Oct 28, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

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Sources: 7 context
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 40%

REAL AF with Andy FrisellaOct 28, 2026

The claim is a sweeping characterization of U.S. conduct ('bullied countries... for nearly 100 years') rather than a checkable factual assertion. The sources document a long history of U.S. intervention in the Middle East, such as the 1953 Iran coup, but none grades the word 'bullied' or the claimed scope as fact.

What was said

… And to Netanyahu saying, This is what Israel will look like if you don't elect me, or if Iran gets a nuke, yeah, probably, because of the way that you fucking bully everybody in the Middle East, okay? You have bullied everybody in the Middle East for nearly a hundred motherfucking years with no repercussions, because no one else has the sophistication or the weaponry to challenge you. So this threat of, Oh, Iran's gonna get a fucking nuke, and they're gonna nuke all America no, that's not what they're worried about. …

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What we found

Context. Several sources describe sustained U.S. intervention in the Middle East across roughly the past century, including the 1953 CIA-backed coup in Iran and Cold War-era involvement.[2][3][4][5]

Context. Sources also describe U.S. policy in the region as mixed, with support for some regimes and conflict with others, and caution about the framing of U.S. power as coercive or domination-based.[1][6][7]

Context. The claim is extracted faithfully from the speaker's rhetorical passage ('You have bullied everybody in the Middle East for nearly a hundred motherfucking years'), which is hyperbolic political criticism rather than a checkable factual statement.