We cannot negotiate with radicals like the iran mullahs
Didn't Trump know that when he said what he said in 2011? He should have said Obama should bomb the shit out of them. But he didn't. AND, Trump didn't do it in his first term. Why not? Why now? Because Trump can get away with anything he wants. This is just another grift.
Right-wingers are GOING TO WAR with each other over Iran. Tucker Carlson calls the strikes "absolutely disgusting and evil." Megyn Kelly says American troops are dying for Israel. Steve Bannon calls it a "betrayal." Marjorie Taylor Greene says it proves "it's always America Last."
The Republican Party is tearing itself apart on live television and the bombs have only been falling for five days.
And they're not just going after Trump. They're going after each other.
Ben Shapiro fired back at Kelly, calling her "wildly inconsistent" and a coward. Elisabeth Hasselbeck went after her on The View, shouting "how dare you" for suggesting troops died for Israel.
Sean Hannity said Carlson is "not the person I knew when he was at Fox." Kelly shot back that Hannity would "never say anything other than to puff Donald Trump up."
These people were all on the same team last week.
Carlson reportedly visited the White House three times in the weeks before the strikes trying to talk Trump out of it. He failed. Now he's telling millions of followers that Netanyahu made the decision, not the president.
Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a longtime Trump ally, said on Bannon's podcast that he doesn't think the war is in America's interests and called it a betrayal of Trump's MAGA commitment.
When the guy who built a private mercenary army says you've gone too far, you've gone too far.
Trump's response to all of it was to wave it off, saying "MAGA is Trump" and that Kelly and Carlson don't speak for his base. But only about one in four Americans even approve of the strikes.
Six American service members are already dead. Iranian strikes have hit airports and military bases across the Gulf. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. civilians are stranded in the region with no evacuation plan.
This is the "no new wars" president. The guy who stood on rally stages swearing he'd keep us out of the Middle East. Five days in and his own movement is fracturing in real time, his media allies are publicly knifing each other, and the war is already spinning beyond anyone's control.
Trump said "MAGA is Trump." At this rate, that might be all MAGA is.
