Former Republican campaign manager and MSNBC analyst Steve Schmidt said President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Iran nuclear deal ceded the "high ground" on the issues of national trust and credibility to Iran.
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace asked Schmidt to connect dissatisfaction with the U.S.'s exit of the Iran deal with the exit of the Paris climate agreement and a weak commitment to NATO.
"With Donald Trump's unilateral abrogation of this international agreement, he has achieved the remarkable result of giving the high ground on issues of national trust and credibility to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world's number one leading exporter of terror, over the United States of America," Schmidt said.
Schmidt said it was especially sad Trump withdrew on V.E. Day, the celebration day of Germany's surrender during World War II.
"Isolating us from our allies on of all days V.E. Day, the anniversary of the end of World War II, where the United States in cooperation with its great allies saved the world from tyranny," he said.
"What he has shown is that the word of the United States in an international agreement means nothing," he said before noting the U.S. and not Iran was the breaker of the agreement.
Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), often referred to as the Iran nuclear deal. Iranian leaders threatened harsh reprisals against the United States following Trump's decision to abandon the nuclear deal and reimpose a series of harsh sanctions on Tehran.