“A new vision will govern… it will be only America first“America first,” said the president of the United States, Donald Trumpin the inaugural speech of his first term, on January 20, 2017. Also after his return to the White House in 2025, the Republican published the ‘America First Priorities’, a document in which he presented the roadmap of your administration. None of them had to do with foreign policy. The principle of prioritizing internal issues, including economy, security and traditional values seems to have been left in backgroundand Republican politicians, influential figures and followers of the MAGA sphere have criticized Trump’s operation against Caracas and the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Trump’s statements during the press conference this Saturday, in which he announced that the United States would take control of Venezuela during a transition process and assured that he does not rule out a deployment of troops on the groundfueled criticism and questioning of the president. For months, Trump has been focused on negotiations to end, or at least try to, conflicts around the world. However, the concerns in the United States are different. 28% of Americans believe that The country’s biggest problem is the economy and inflationwhile 26% believe that it is the government and 19% immigrationaccording to the latest Gallup poll.
Along these lines, the Republican representative from Georgia in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greenea key figure in the MAGA movement, has been adamantly against Trump’s intervention. “Regime change, the financing of wars abroad and the constant diversion of American taxpayer money to foreign causesboth domestic and international, and to foreign governments, as Americans constantly face rising costs of living, housing and healthcare, and learn about scams and fraud related to their taxes, is what infuriates most Americans,” he noted in a post on X. “This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end. “How wrong we were!” he concludes.
Activists and influential figures turn their backs on Trump
The ultraconservative commentator Tucker Carlsonwho has recently fallen out of favor in Trump’s entourage, has criticized the US government for the capture of Maduro. Carlson considers the Venezuelan leader a reference in the defense of traditional values and wondered why Washington was so hostile toward him. “Maduro, with all his many flaws, probably has the most socially conservative country in the hemisphere.”. “Venezuela has banned pornography, abortion, homosexual marriage, sex changes and usury,” he stated in his podcast. The Tucker Carlson Show.
For her part, the far-right activist and Trump ally, Laura Loomeruntil now favorable to Trump’s interventions abroad, including attacks on Iran, He first criticized the position of the Republican administration against Venezuela, although after the military operation Loomer has once again aligned himself with the president. In November, Loomer claimed that The Americans would be the ones who would pay the price of an intervention in Venezuela. “Perhaps we will soon see an invasion of Venezuela so that (opposition member María Corina Machado), who will need the financial backing and military support of the United States, can assume power in a country that will never be able to govern without the help of the United States,” he predicted through his social networks. “It will fail. China has too many assets in Venezuela. He will not succeed with his regime change, and American taxpayers will have to foot the bill”, he assured then.
Stephen K. Bannonformer Trump advisor and prominent commentator on the MAGA movement, initially spoke favorably about the Venezuela operation. Before Trump’s press conference, during his show War RoomBannon described it as “an impressive and dazzling night attack by US forcesBut after Trump’s declaration that the United States would “lead” the country, Bannon refrained from giving further support and even shared posts repudiating “wars of regime change disguised as America First”.
Las criticism on social networks, however, do not resonate with the Trump administration. Congressional Republicans mostly praised the attack, even though Trump did not report or ask the House for authorization of the operation. Although Democrats have warned that the measure constitutes a excess of executive power and they have censored the intervention in Venezuela, only two congressional Republicans They have publicly expressed their concern.
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