Trump is 'infuriating the MAGA base' as new global war threat looms: report
Donald Trump's inability to broker a continuing –– but tense –– peace between Israel and Iran has reportedly placed him on the outs with his MAGA base after Israel launched an attack that threatens a growing war in the region.
According to a report from Politico's Rachel Bade, the "Operation Rising Lion" assault on Iran that targeted nuclear facilities in Iran and reportedly ended the lives of three top Iranian military officials now puts pressure on the president who will be faced with a dilemma of how to rein in Israel while at the same time supporting a country he has backed unequivocally.
As Bade wrote, prominent MAGA supporters have been pressuring Trump to make sure what occurred on Thursday would not come to pass, and now he will have to scramble to keep all factions within his base satisfied.
According to Bade, "... the president either tried and failed, highlighting his lack of sway with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu — or he privately greenlit the campaign against the warnings of his base (which the administration firmly denies)" which has led to one prominent apologist for the president, Matt Boyle of Breitbart, to tell Bade, "What the president does from here could end up defining his presidency. He has to balance protecting America’s greatest ally in the region in Israel with avoiding getting the USA drawn into war.”
Trump ally Charlie Kirk also fretted over the pending schism within the MAGA base, explaining, "As you very well know, I’m very pro-Israel on this show; I’m just simply interpreting the political dynamics here. And I could tell you right now that the audience, you guys ... are not thrilled with this situation at all.”
"How does the America First foreign policy doctrine and foreign policy agenda … stay consistent with this right now?” he added.
Breitbart's Boyle agreed by suggesting, "The president listens to the base — it’s his best quality. Clearly people across the MAGA movement are watching what’s happening very closely and are concerned that any moves by globalists and neocon forces to drag the United States into another endless war in the Middle East would cause serious political damage to the president.”
Early Friday morning, Trump took to Truth Social to attempt persuade Iran to bend to Israel's will persuade Iran to bend to Israel's will, writing, "There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end. Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. "
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