President Donald Trump on Wednesday underestimated any notion of uncertainty over whether he wanted to order a strike against Iran, and he addressed the rift between some of his most vocal magazine supporters and national security conservatives.
“Today, my supporters fell in love with me more, and I fell in love with them even more, even more than they did during the election,” Trump told reporters.
“I may have some people who are a little unhappy right now, but I have some very happy people and people outside my base can’t believe it’s happening, they’re happy.”
Trump huddled in a situation room with the national security team on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Capitol Hill lawmakers that the Pentagon is offering Trump a possible option for Iran but did not say whether the military plans to assist Israel in strike.
“I might do that, I might not do it,” Trump said in an interview with reporters on Wednesday. “I mean, no one knows what I’m going to do.”
Trump’s remarks come as some long-time defenders of his first American spell, after a week of deadly strikes and counterattacks, said he played a bigger role in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, commentator Tucker Carlson and conservative fire woman Charlie Kirk reminded themselves of their devout audiences’ commitment to Trump’s 2024 204 boycott of military participation overseas.
Here’s what everyone else thinks: Steve Bannon
Shortly before Trump’s speech, Steve Bannon, one of his advisers for the 2016 campaign, told Washington’s audience that the pain in Iraq was the driving force of Trump’s first presidential candidate and the Maga movement, saying “one of the core principles is not Trump’s base.”
But Bannon, a longtime Trump ally, was sentenced to four months in prison for violating subpoena in a congressional investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Bannon admitted Wednesday that although he and others would oppose military intervention until the end, “the Maga movement will support Trump.”
Ultimately, Bannon said that if Trump wants to participate in Iran, he would have to file a lawsuit against the American people – he hasn’t done so yet. “We don’t like it. Maybe we hate it,” Bannon said.
“But, you know, we’ll join.
Jones added: “I hope it’s not like that…” Tucker Carlsonththe’s remarks about Trump’s comments about Trump’s comments have become increasingly critical, and he has long been a 2024 foreigner at a large rallies with Republicans in 2024, and he stood out in foreign campaigns, in magazines, writing “What You Want” above “What You Want” and “What You Get” above “The Comprehensive.”
Trump took Carlson on social media, calling him “weird.” At an event at the White House late Wednesday, Trump said Carlson “called and apologized” to call him out, saying Carlson “is a good guy.”
His conversation with GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday exposed the differences among many Republicans.
The two went on two hours on various issues, mainly the United States involved in Iran, and Carlson accused Cruz of overemphasizing the protection of Israel’s foreign policy worldview.
“You know nothing about Iran,” Carlson told Cruz, who said the senator said he had no idea about Iran’s population or its racial composition. “You are a senator who calls for the overthrow of the government and you know nothing about the country.”
