Supporters react angrily and swiftly, suggesting that he is not putting America first
The Republican president who vowed to “Make America Great Again” by ending “endless wars” now finds himself on the precipice of a potential new one.
Trump’s next move is unknown. But some of the most prominent voices within his extended MAGA movement are pleading with the president not to drag the U.S. into another Middle Eastern war.
Tucker Carlson says Trump is complicit in the strikes and insists that this isn’t America’sfight.
“While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the U.S. at the center of last night’s events,” Carlson wrote in his Friday newsletter to paid subscribers.
“Washington knew these attacks would happen,” he added. “They aided Israel in carrying them out.”
“It’s worth taking a step back and wondering how any of this helps the United States,” the newsletter reads. “We can’t think of a single way.”
Carlson continued, “If Israel wants to wage this war, it has every right to do so. It is a sovereign country, and it can do as it pleases. But not with America’s backing.”
Citing Trump’s foreign policy campaign promises, Carlson noted that direct U.S. involvement in a war with Iran “would be a middle finger in the faces of the millions of voters who cast their ballots in hopes of creating a government that would finally put the United States first.”
“What happens next will define Donald Trump’s presidency,” Carlson concluded. “Drop Israel…let them fight their own wars.”
Former Trump adviser Steven Bannon agrees with keeping the U.S. out of this conflict. “Last night was a decapitation strike against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard,” Bannon said. “And hey, you’re putting your defense first and that’s fine. But we gotta put our defense first. And what cannot happen is be drawn into another war.”
These MAGA figures are unified in believing the U.S. should not be involved in a war between Israel and Iran, as the old guard, neoconservative voices like Sen. Lindsey Graham and talk host Mark Levin could not contain their excitement over the Israeli strikes. Graham started out with “game on” in a social media
Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk said Israel can do what it likes with Iran, but that it was imperative that the U.S. not be involved, and also to ignore neocon voices urging another American war.
Kirk wrote in a lengthy post on X, “In the hours and days to come, there will be hawks who urge America to increase its involvement in this conflict. They will call for us to ‘finish off the mullahs,’ or to help Israel with ‘mopping up.’ They will claim (tell me if you’ve heard this before) that if we topple the Iranian regime, we will be welcomed as ‘liberators.’ We should be deeply skeptical of these arguments.”
Peace is clearly MAGA’s position judging by these reactions. Whether it will have a “peace president” to make that happen remains to be seen.
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