“My followers love me even more than when they were the elections.” Thus, Donald Trump tried on Wednesday, the obvious confrontation between predominant figures of Trumpism in the possibility of an US attack to Iran within the offensive unleashed by the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu. “There may be some people who are now a little unhappy, but there are others who are very happy,” the president continued in an intervention against journalists in the White House: “My followers do not want you to have nuclear weapons.”
The truth is that during the last hours several videos of prominent referents of Maga Trumpism have circulated, such as Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, criticizing the possible attack on Iran: the president who arrived at the White House as a peacemaker and deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize agitates war drums in one of the worst Avisperos on the planet: The Middle East. And all this bankruptcy at the base of Trumpism arrives after tensions in April for generalized tariffs, public anger with Elon Musk and division by the tax bill that triggers the deficit and debt by lowering taxes and increasing the expense in defense and fighting migration.
Already in the electoral campaign, the republican bankruptcy had a lot to do with that tension between the republican hawk classics represented in Liz Cheney, who campaigned by Kamala Harris, and the magicians who carry to the extreme their isolationism that is nothing more than the breakup – imperialist – with any multilateral rule, as happened a century ago when the Eeu entry into the Eeu Woodrow Wilson.
To get involved in what happens in the world, even by military, in the end generates obligations that the Maga do not want to assume.
Fruit of that collision in Trumpism is the viral video of a Tucker Carlson interview to Senator Ted Cruz, in which the Fox expressitor leaves Cruz ridiculous by revealing his ignorance on the country he wants to bombard.
It seems that the question of whether the US should attack or is not dividing his followers much, they asked Trump: “No, my followers are with me. My followers are America first, They don't want them to have nuclear weapons. Tucker is a good guy, he called me the other day to apologize because he thought he had said a bit strong things, and I appreciated it. And Ted Cruz is a good guy, he takes me for a long time. This is very simple, if they believe that they will have nuclear weapons, they should be against me, but nobody believes it is fine. ”
And, from here, Trump's reasoning is paved the hypothesis of the attack: “I don't look for war, but if you have to choose between war and have nuclear weapons, you have to do what you have to do. We may not have to fight, but we will see what happens. The conclusion is that they cannot have nuclear weapons.”
“The problem is get into a mess,” Trump argues about people like Carlson who defend the non -intervention in Iran: “They do not want them to have nuclear weapons, but then they say: 'We do not want to fight. That happens.
To such an extent are the spirits excited in Trumpism, that Mark Levin, analyst and presenter of Life, Liberty & Levin in Fox News accused of “Marxist-Islamists” to the Maga Isolationists such as Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlosn and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“Where is China? Any part. And Russia, nowhere? What happened to World War third? There is no third World War. Everyone looks like a group of Marxist Islamists. They do not seem American patriots. You have to be clear: this is good against evil. Or you are a patriot American who supports the president of the United States, the commander in chief or not. Or you are one thing or another.”
“The neoconservative warmlenes are only concerned with riding an indirect war with Russia in Ukraine, fighting Iran for Israel and protecting Taiwan from China. But they don't care that the cartels commit crimes and murder Americans every day,” The congresswoman for Georgia was tweeted y referentie maga marjorie taylor greene, who insisted: “The Americans want gasoline, food, invoices and cheap homes. They want affordable medical insurance, safe communities and a good education for their children. They want a government that occupies these matters. Taking into account that Americans pay the entire government and salaries of officials with the money of their taxes, which costs them so much to win, that is where we must focus our attention. Not to enter our attention.
The US vice president JD Vance, a member of isolationist, reflected the pressure that the White House is suffering from his voters with a long post in X defending President Trump and recognizing that “people are right to be concerned about the involvement abroad after the last 25 years of idiot foreign policy,” to Zanjar: “But I think the president has gained some confidence in this issue.”
Trump, while, called Tucker Carlson “crazy” and publicly belittled its director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who in March testified that Iran did not seem to be building a nuclear weapon. “I don't care what she said,” Trump told journalists at Air Force One on Monday night when he rushed to Washington from the G7 summit in Canada: “I think they were very close to having one.”
An analysis by The Guardian He explained that the schism also affects the pentagon. Elbridge Colby, Undersecretary of Policy in the Department of Defense, is among those who trusted the most to redirect US military assets in Europe and the Middle East towards the growing threat of China.
According to other sources, there are conservative Republicans such as Republican Senator Tom Cotton, and high positions of the Pentagon as the US central command general, Michael Erik Kurilla, who are insisting before Trump on the need to harden the position with Iran.
It is said that Kurilla was influential in the implementation of US attacks against the hutis that lasted seven weeks and ended abruptly after using more than 1,000 million dollars (about 865 million euros) in thousands of bombs and missiles.
The Republican Mike Rogers, president of the Armed Forces Committee in the House of Representatives, asked Kurilla if the central command was prepared to “respond with an overwhelming force to avoid the possibility of an Iran with nuclear weapons.” And the senator replied: “” Yes (…) I have raised the Secretary of Defense and the President a wide range of options. ”
“No one knows what I am going to do,” Donald Trump acknowledged on Wednesday at the White House. And surely he is the first to not be clear about what to do, and one of the elements that he is wearing is the political risk for his electoral basis of a decision such as entering a war that, as history demonstrates, never knows where he ends up driving.
