Does Israel-Iran crisis pose biggest threat to Donald Trump's Presidency?
Israel-Iran war like crisis has the backing of the USA but the Middle-East crisis is forcing President Donald Trump to walk a political tightrope between the hawks in his base and the isolationists who helped sweep him to power. Trump ran for reelection as a peacemaker who distained the foreign adventures of his predecessors, boasting that he would have little difficulty ending conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine. Many Trump followers see Israel's offensive as the sternest test yet of his "America First" credentials, fearing that he will allow the United States to get dragged into the hostilities, according to AFP report.
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The announcement of strikes was applauded by Mark Levin, a rightwing political analyst and longstanding Trump loyalist. Beyond the government buildings and TV studios of Washington, however, Trump's Make America Great Again, or MAGA, activists oppose US boots on the ground abroad and warn against shows of support for Israel.
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This is a sticky one for Trump, who has long pledged to end "forever wars" and keep the USA away from dangerous foreign entanglements, Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist, told AFP.
Levin received blowback from Tucker Carlson, a leading voice on the American far right, who posted on X that his former Fox News colleague was "hyperventilating" to distract from the real goal -- regime change in Iran.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, normally a foreign policy hawk, was quick to distance the United States from Israel's "unilateral" strikes, which hit uranium-enrichment facilities and killed top Iranian military officials.
Trump himself had repeatedly insisted that Iran could not be allowed to have nuclear weapons -- but made clear before the strikes that he was against military action.
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Charlie Kirk, a pro-Israel online MAGA star and one of Trump's staunchest allies, went live on his podcast to find out how his pro-Trump audience was reacting to events. "The emails are so largely overwhelmingly against Israel doing this, I'd say it's probably a 99 to one," Kirk said.
Kirk asked his five million X followers if America should "get involved in Israel's war against Iran" and almost 90 percent of the 300,000+ people who had responded by Friday morning said no.
Fellow MAGA activist Jack Posobiec warned before the strikes that they would "disastrously split" Trump's coalition. "Trump smartly ran against starting new wars, this is what the swing states voted for," he said. He claimed, "The midterms are not far and Congress' majority is already razor-thin. America First!"
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