Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) shaded President Donald Trump for repeatedly blasting former President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, arguing that Trump is doing “worse” than Obama.

Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday on “State of the Union,” the Democratic senator said that the president is “being played as a fool that he is for getting us into this in the first place,” adding that the “weak nation” or Iran has “put America in a stalemate” as a result.

Booker made the remarks after Tapper asked him if Trump’s negotiations with Iran are “better than the deal Obama got with Iran.”

The U.S. is on the verge of reaching a deal with Iran to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, regional officials told The Associated Press on Sunday, despite Trump saying he told representatives “not to rush into a deal.”

What is outlined in the deal remains unknown.

“We haven’t had an official briefing, but this is what I’m seeing that has me so outraged right now is the president said he went into this to deal with their nuclear program,” Booker responded to Tapper. “This does not deal with that. Before he became president the first time, they had no highly enriched uranium. They had sent it out. Now, they have it because of him.”

“Number two is he criticized roundly that the deal that got rid of their nuclear program, or at least their highly enriched program, involved getting $50 billion for Iran,” he continued. “Well, already the president’s balance sheet is letting more than $14 billion go through that during this conflict; he allowed them to sell oil in this deal alone.”

Booker went on to further condemn Trump’s dealings with Iran.

“Easing of sanctions on Iran, allowing them to get billions of more, the same deal [from Obama that] he criticized, he’s already doing worse than. Giving Iran more money, as he has said, will allow them to do things like fuel their proxy terrorist proxies.”

Calling the war “wrong,” the New Jersey senator added, “He’s got us in a situation that’s worse than it was before — a more extreme regime [with the] Strait of Hormuz now as a leveraging point for them.”

Watch a clip of Booker’s remarks about Trump below.

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