partial quote from: MAGA influencers push back on Trump on Iran
Now, President Donald Trump is threatening to destroy Iranian civilization after campaigning in part on a "no new wars" mantra in 2024. He has said the war is necessary to stop Iran's leadership from obtaining nuclear weapons and further destabilizing the global order.
His reversal is creating major strains within his own "Make America Great Again" movement, evident in increasingly loud dissent from some of its most prominent media figures, resistance from a growing number of GOP lawmakers and polling.
The roster of conservative luminaries rebuking Trump over Iran this week could have been cut and pasted from a list of his most reliable supporters of the past: Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Turning Point USA's former communications director Candace Owens, among many others.
"Trump would not have won the primary in 2016 had he run on Mitt Romney’s platform, nor would he have won the 2024 election by running on new wars," Cernovich, a right-wing influencer who has promoted "pizzagate" and various other conspiracy theories, wrote to his 1.4 million X followers on Sunday. "It’s silly to claim Trump is MAGA. He rode a cultural wave, only he had the personal will to do so, but the issues matter, too."
In a prior post, Cernovich alleged that "Trump’s goal is to turn Iran into Syria. An unpopular war that he wasn’t able to wrap up quickly, so now he is lashing out and destroying hospitals and bridges."
Trump vows to target Iran's civilian infrastructure
Jones and Greene have called for the Cabinet to use the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to declare Trump unable to fulfill his duties and oust him from the Oval Office.
Carlson advised Trump's military aides to reject any plan to slaughter Iranian civilians, including through the potential use of a nuclear weapon.
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