March 20, 2025 (EIRNS)—Can Trump be turned back away from this disastrous course he’s on in Gaza and on Iran? London’s The Independent reported yesterday that Trump’s bombing in Yemen, and his war threats, have provoked a backlash from his MAGA supporters, because they see him veering away from his promises of “no more endless wars.”
Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News journalist who is deeply embedded within Trump’s inner circle, warned the President this week that a strike on Iran could cause a war that would lead to “thousands of American deaths” in the region. “The cost of future acts of terrorism on American soil may be even higher. Those aren’t guesses,” he added on Monday evening, March 17. “Those are the Pentagon’s own estimates. A bombing campaign against Iran will set off a war, and it will be America’s war. Don’t let the propagandists lie to you.”
Carlson’s intervention is all the more relevant because he was considered vital in talking Trump out of striking Iran during his first term.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia congresswoman and one of MAGA’s most loyal footsoldiers, also posted an indirect message that seemed to suggest her disapproval of threatening war on Iran. “I have not heard a single American say they want another war in the Middle East or anywhere else. Not one. All I’ve heard is a loud cry demanding our government and its leaders ‘PUT AMERICA FIRST!’” she wrote on X on March 17. “I don’t support going to war on behalf of other countries. I support peace and fixing our own massive problems for our own people. It’s literally my job title. U.S. Representative,” she added.
