Trump 'made a mockery of all of us': MAGA devotees revolt over foreign policy about-face
Politico reports President Donald Trump’s own MAGA devotees warned him of Israel’s penchant for military escalation. Now the retaliation is setting in.
"The White House claims it played no part in the strikes on Tehran’s nuclear facilities Thursday night,” says Politico. Tehran was even slated to meet with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff over the weekend for peace talks, but now the U.S. is in a precarious place considering it unilaterally funds
nearly a third of Israel’s military machine. Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's strike also threatens to pull the U.S. deeper into Middle East conflict
— to the chagrin of a huge swathe of Trump's MAGA base.
“What the president does from here could end up defining his presidency,” Breitbart MAGA content producer Matt Boyle told Politico hours after the attack. “He has to balance protecting America’s greatest ally in the region in Israel with avoiding getting the USA drawn into war.”
Other MAGA personalities are not so civil.
“Israel has now made a mockery of the United States,” said Breaking Points
host Saagar Enjeti, on X. Earlier Enjeti
predicted “a war with Iran would make the disastrous war in Iraq look like a cakewalk.”
Enjeti initially painted Trump as a victim of Israel’s indifference, saying Trump “said he did not want strikes ahead of negotiations,” and that the “attack … is deliberate sabotage and a blatant attempt to force us into war. We must resist.”
But in a quick turn of allegiance, Enjeti later
agonized that “Trump has now praised Israel’s strike, affirmed US material support; and Israeli media is reporting his public opposition was a disinformation campaign to mislead Iran.”
“So, in other words, Trump — not Israel — has made a mockery of all of us wanted to avoid this war,” Enjeti
concluded.
Trump ally Charlie Kirk went live with his supporters in the aftermath of the attack and admitted “ … you guys ... are not thrilled with this situation at all.”
He added that the strike raises the fundamental question of “How does the America First foreign policy doctrine and foreign policy agenda … stay consistent with this right now?”
Politico reports the strike against Tehran may also have been a strike against Trump’s claim of strength, with “some of the most high-profile figures of the movement [taking] to social media, podcasts and television imploring Trump to intervene to stop it, believing that he actually could.”
In the hours before the violence, Kirk had
argued that allowing the Israeli strike “would be seen as an unforgivable betrayal by millions of American voters.”
Also, just before the strike, Politico reports right-wing activist Jack Posobiec warned the economic and political impact to the White House could be disastrous, with “a new Middle East conflict with Iran” hitting “summer gas prices” just in time for the midterms.
