On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime on MS NOW, contributor and former George W. Bush aide Elise Jordan suggested that Trump administration officials supporting military action against Iran were motivated by psychological insecurity, accusing them of treating war like a “video game” and attempting to “exercise their repressed masculinity.” Jordan made the remark during a discussion of a dignified transfer ceremony earlier in the day at Dover Air Force Base for six fallen U.S. service members. Co-host Antonia Hylton asked Jordan whether witnessing the return of fallen troops might affect President Trump or the senior officials who accompanied him to the ceremony. WATCH: MS NOW’s Elise Jordan Says Trump Officials’ ‘Repressed Masculinity’ Makes Her ‘Puke’ pic.twitter.com/fSaiRqKnuw — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) March 8, 2026 Hylton noted that Trump was joined by the vice president, the First and Second Ladies, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, envoy Steve Witkoff, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking whether seeing the fallen brought home might “change the calculus” for the administration. Jordan lectured it was “good” that the officials attended because "they need to see the real cost of what going to war, and what this war is going to mean. It's going to mean a lot more men and women coming home in that way." But she quickly pivoted from discussing the realities of combat to questioning the motives of Trump officials, suggesting their support for the conflict stemmed from insecurity and what she called “faux bravado.” Jordan accused members of the administration of treating the war like a “video game” and implied they were using the conflict to compensate for personal insecurities: “And far too many members of this administration have been treating it like it's a video game and some way to, you know, exercise their repressed masculinity that they have issues with, I guess. But all of the faux bravado, it just, it really does make me want to puke in my stomach because there's a certain humility that you should have just for the lives that you're impacting on the ground and the men and women you are sending to do that and the moral injury that you are going to cause permanently to them.” Jordan wasn’t merely criticizing administration policy. She suggested Trump officials were driven by mental deficiencies, and it makes her sick.  Here's the transcript: MS NOW The Weekend: Primetime 3/7/26 6:07 pm ET ANTONIA HYLTON: Can I ask you, Elise, you know, everyone watched the dignified transfer happen only a couple hours ago, and presidents often attend them, they do not always, but this is the first time that President Trump has attended a dignified transfer for a war that he actually started.  And I wonder, because you've been around the decision makers, you know the cost of war, if you think at all seeing something like this happen so early on in the fighting, will change the calculus, even if it doesn't change it for President Trump, for anyone around him. Because he was there, the vice president was there, the First and Second Lady were there, Susie Wiles was there, Steve Witkoff, Pam Bondi was there.  I mean, the entire inner circle stood by and watched these six fallen service members go by. Does that do something to people?  ELISE JORDAN: It's good that they did, because they need to see the real cost of what going to war, and what this war is going to mean.  It's going to mean a lot more men and women coming home in that way. Despite what we do and despite our best intentions, that's the harsh reality of it.  And far too many members of this administration have been treating it like it's a video game and some way to, you know, exercise their repressed masculinity that they have issues with, I guess.  But all of the faux bravado, it just, it really does make me want to puke in my stomach because there's a certain humility that you should have just for the lives that you're impacting on the ground and the men and women you are sending to do that and the moral injury that you are going to cause permanently to them.