Donald Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran with the support of Israel set off a firestorm of criticism among longtime supporters who helped him win a second term, in part based on his promise not to engage in foreign military interventions.
The “Make America Great Again” movement does not forgive Donald Trump having betrayed one of his main electoral promises: “America First”.
On social media, the reaction among conservatives was condemnation, with a former Trump supporter in the House of Representatives declaring the “End of MAGA“, says .
“Remember when all the MAGA figures screamed at the top of their lungs that anyone with the last name McCain was a neoconservative warmonger bloodthirsty who wanted to bomb Iran and had no place in the Republican Party? Then, I haven’t forgotten that either“, to conservative commentator Meghan McCain no X.
The journalist Cassandra MacDonald a publication of Charlie Kirkwho had written, after a previous attack: “This is crazy. The regime change will result in a bloody civil warkilling hundreds of thousands of people and creating yet another massive Muslim refugee crisis.”
“Overthrowing a leader is NEVER as easy as you think. It almost always results in further involvement, civil war and chaos. Resist it!” said that of Charlie Kirk, conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, who was in September of last year.
The controversial British influencer Andrew Tateof rape and human trafficking in the United Kingdom and a long-time ally of Donald Trump, was even more direct, and: “NOBODY WANTS THIS WAR“,.
“War transfers wealth from the working class for the banking class. The same does fraud and inflation. The common worker simply cannot breathe and is endlessly destroyed. This is the Matrix — the extraction of the population to feed a soulless machine. Inhumane,” he added.
The day before the attack, former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene predicted the attack and added it to his list of Trump betrayalssharing a video in which Trump previously spoke out against wars.
“This is the Trump I supported, the man who exposed the truth about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and declared NO MORE FOREIGN WARS. Now, for some unknown reason, he has joined the neoconservatives and will go to war against Iran under the same ridiculous pretexts. End of MAGA“, .
“I didn’t campaign for this. I didn’t donate money to this. I didn’t vote for that, neither in the elections nor in Congress. This is devastating and tragic. And how many more innocent people will die? And our own military?” Taylor Greene on Saturday. “This isn’t what we thought MAGA was supposed to be. A shame!”
“Pray for our country right now. Pray for our military and their families right now. Pray for the innocent people of Iran right now,” the Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina LunaAir Force veteran. One of his followers wrote: “I’m afraid the Republican Party will lose also the Senate because of this war.”
“I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. Is it possible to change your mind when new information emerges. I did this well before the 2024 election when he lied about DeSantis and bragged about Operation Warp Speed. Now a very dangerous war is starting. It’s not too late to withdraw your support to a President who betrayed the American people“, Nicholas J. Stelzner.
“This is perhaps not surprising considering his historically poor impulse control,” the analyst wrote. Emma Ashford in an article on . “But the decision to start another war by choice It’s a betrayal not only to the president’s base, but also to the American people in a broader sense“.
“Trump has now become what he once denouncedand even his longtime supporter Tucker Carlson describes Saturday’s attacks on Iran as ‘absolutely disgusting and perverse‘, notes Ashford.
“Trump cast the dice in hopes of a short, successful war, and now he will have to wait and see whether he has instead committed the US to what he promised to avoid: another endless disaster in the Middle East. It is still too early to know what will happen in Iran. But it is absolutely clear that This was not what his base nor the American people wantedconcludes the analyst.
