As MAGA figures rushed to champion the Trump administration’s unprecedented Venezuela attack and takeover, critics couldn’t help but dredge up old remarks that exposed a stark reversal of their once anti-interventionist rhetoric.
Vice President JD Vance, for instance, aggressively criticized supporters of the Iraq War in 2023, mocking the notion of wasting billions of dollars and American lives to depose tyrannical rulers abroad, remarks that lie in stark contrast to his recent championing and defense of his administration’s attack on Venezuela.
MAGA influencer “Gunther Eagleman,” who’s amassed more than 1.6 million followers on X, championed Trump as recently as June for having started “no new wars,” only to hail Trump Saturday for his attack on Venezuela.
“This is huge!” they wrote in a social media post on X Saturday. “I am completely amazed at the might of our military.”
Critics were quick to mock Vance and Gunther Eagleman for their apparent newfound appreciation of interventionism, with Christian cultural commentator Morgan Ariel posting a screengrab of Gunther Eagleman’s past anti-interventionist remarks alongside the caption: “This you?”
MAGA-aligned conservative attorney Will Chamberlain was also mocked for his apparent change of heart. In 2020, he wrote on social media that the “Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars,” only to state on Saturday that he could “think of few better uses of [his] tax dollars” than to attack Venezuela and kidnap its president.
“Ooops…there’s always a tweet…this you Will Chamberlain?” wrote X user “Wu Tang is for the Children," a popular political commentator with more than 284,000 followers, alongside a screengrab of Chamberlain’s past anti-interventionist remarks.
Remember when he pretended to be anti-war?
They were always neocons. The whole thing was a fraud. https://t.co/JE9cYi2vtQ
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