Funny Guy, But Consistency Not His Strong Suit
| Arash Norouzi The Mossadegh Project | January 24, 2026 |
Actor and comedian Rob Schneider, high among the MAGA faithful, is a man of many talents. Moral consistency is not one of them.
He stands solidly with the people of Iran as they fight to rid themselves of the savage Islamic regime, defends ICE as they terrorize the people of Minneapolis who overwhelmingly want them out.
Some of his foreign policy positions echo the “wokeness” he denounces, though he wavers. He’s not a fan of regime change wars, but was happy with Trump’s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
He strongly warned against Trump attacking Iran, saying it would destroy his legacy, then congratulated the President when he did it anyway.
He criticizes the brutality of the Shah and his SAVAK security forces, while endorsing the violent authoritarianism of the
insane, fat pedophile protector now fouling the
White House.
Perhaps this is all, per comedy parlance, just “a bit”. An unsettling performance art piece in the tradition of the great Andy Kaufman. If so, Schneider’s commitment to the bit, at least, would be commendable.
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“I just think if you go back to the Shah of Iran and how he was pushed out...because Iran was getting at that time 16% of the oil profits in 1952, from the predecessor of British Petroleum and then when they said, Well, we want
more, and then the Brits said No and they said Well can we at least look at the books to see if we’re getting 16%?, then they said No, and then they asked for a million dollars from
Truman, the Brits, to overthrow Mossadegh,
because Mossadegh at that point
nationalized the oil, then he went to
Eisenhower and said Can we
get—and Eisenhower said Yes and then they sent you know, a paid mob in front of the presidential palace, and then they...and that didn’t really work, and then they sent two, and then you know Mossadegh had to jump over
the—they burned it down—Mossadegh had to jump over
the fence, and then you had 26 years of the Shah of Iran.
And during that time the secret police, you know we can’t...I would suggest that they not have that repeat of that, because what it did was it set up, you know a similar thing to happen where people were...where anybody who
was at the opposition got crushed...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I don’t mind a monarchy that would support a constitutional republic of some sort, absolutely. I don’t want a return of
SAVAK. . . . . . It radicalized people and it set up the situation for Khomeini. So I’m saying let’s not do a repeat of that. The Iranian people, let them decide . . . . I think the 26 years of really not allowing any
political opposition to his reign, created that kind of tension and that kind of fear.
Rob Schneider on Twitter (X) | June 18, 2025
The cruelest of ironies is that what could finally undo and destroy the Presidency of Donald J Trump isn’t biased Democrat Lawfare, or paid boomer protests, or District Court judges nullifying his Executive Orders, or Rino Republicans
refusing to pass his (bloated) Big Beautiful Bill, a “stolen election” or even an Assassin’s bullet.
What could finish off the 47th President’s agenda for good will be if he goes against his gut and drags America into another Middle East quagmire of blood, and wastes more trillions of American treasure like his predecessors.
War with Iran would be Trump’s Afghanistan, his Vietnam, and ultimately his political Waterloo.
Iran is a Theocratic dictatorship that sponsors terror but has invaded not even one country.
They are not Iraq, which until relatively recently, was not a unified
country but a group of rival tribes before it became a British colonial construct.
Besides Iran being “the crossroads of civilization,” they are much more homogenous, roughly 2/3rds Persian ethnicity and didn’t bend a knee or break when attacked by Iraq during their 10 year bloody war. They fought tooth and nail for
their very survival.
And their 90 million people will fight for their survival again.
It was Britain, and (funded by) the United States that overthrew a democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mossedegh in 1953 by using hired mobs in a coup that lead to the installation of the
the Shah Pahlavi’s 27 year reign of
authoritarianism and
human rights abuses. All in the name of Iranian Oil.
So here we are again. If American foreign policy is anything, it is immune from learning or even acknowledging recent history from either political party, leaving millions dead in it’s willful ignorance and arrogance.
I am praying that our President doesn’t start another war.
President Trump could still be our Abraham Lincoln but if he ignores history and our recent military misadventures, he could also end up being another George W. Bush, or God help us, a Republican version of Barack Obama.
Yours truly,
Rob Schneider
Rob Schneider on Twitter (X) | April 6, 2017
This tweet was later deleted (our screenshot below).
Just 4 reasons for no regime change in Syria;
1. Vietnam 1962
2. Yugoslavia 1999
3. Iraq 2002
4. Libya 2011
Another reason for no regime change in Syria;
1953 Iran.
Related links:
The Iran Nuclear Deal | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (VIDEO)
Iran According To Ed Sullivan (1951-1954)
IRAN SNIPPETS | More Rim Shots From the Mossadegh Era (1951-53)
MOSSADEGH t-shirts — “If I sit silently, I have sinned”
