MAGA panics as Trump reignites war: 'He might have opened Pandora's Box'
President Donald Trump's announcement of a fresh round of strikes on Iran touched off a wave of backlash this week — not just from his usual critics, but from voices on the right, including prominent America First and MAGA-aligned figures.
The reactions followed Trump's post on Truth Social declaring that U.S. aircraft had struck Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar positions for again violating the ceasefire, warning that "the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist" if the U.S. is "forced to militarily complete the job."
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, once among Trump's most steadfast allies, reacted with alarm and invoked the anti-interventionist promise central to the movement.
"He might have opened Pandora's Box," Greene wrote. "I'm praying this ends. We said no more foreign wars."
Some of the sharpest criticism came from David Pyne, an America First conservative who posts under @AmericaFirstCon, and who openly called for the president's removal.
" Trump says the cease-fire has collapsed as the US continues daily bombing strikes on Iran and then again threatens to wipe it off the face of the Earth implying the use of US nuclear weapons to do so," Pyne wrote. "Can Congress impeach and remove this lunatic already?"
Pyne amplified several other critical voices. One, posting as Richard under the handle @ricwe123, framed the strikes as a strategic blunder.
"Starting a conflict is easy. Living with the consequences is the hard part," Richard wrote, adding that "Trump made a catastrophic miscalculation by blindly following Israel into a confrontation with Iran, with little apparent regard for the geopolitical and economic fallout."
Another account Pyne shared, Ryan Matta, is widely followed on the right. Matta argued the episode had shredded American credibility abroad.
"Trump looks like complete fraud on the world stage. Every peace talk was a lie, the MOU was a hoax, and this was the plan all along," Matta wrote on X. "No country should ever take a peace talk with America seriously. We look like a joke on the world stage."
Tom Nichols, the Never-Trump conservative writer and retired Naval War College professor, took a more caustic approach, mocking the administration's characterization of the situation as a ceasefire at all.
"I'm just simple retired War College professor, but two sides exchanging fire is not a 'cease-fire,'" Nichols wrote, before taking a shot at the administration's rebranding of the Defense Department: "Maybe renaming the DOD was a little hasty." His post was amplified by Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen, also a conservative.