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2 hours ago
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'Absolute Betrayal': Joe Rogan Regular Turns On Trump, Calls For Impeachment
Comedian Dave Smith, a libertarian and frequent guest on Joe Rogan's podcast who endorsed Donald Trump in 2024, is now apologizing for his support of the president due to his recent handling of the escalating Israel-Iran conflict. 'He should be impeached and removed for this one,' said Smith, referring to his endorsement as a 'bad calculation,' in remarks that stunned the hosts of the 'Breaking Points' program on Monday. He later continued, 'All of his supporters should turn on him, it's the absolute betrayal of everything he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood for.' Trump — amid days of missiles exchanged between Israel and Iran— hasn't ruled out U.S. involvement in the conflict and claimed that Iranian officials would 'like to talk' at the negotiating table to wind down tensions. By Monday evening, he scolded Iran for not signing a deal, calling the move a 'shame' and a 'waste of human life' before stressing that the country shouldn't have a nuclear weapon while calling for the immediate evacuation of Tehran. Over the years, Trump has notably touted himself as being anti-war, labeled himself as a 'peacemaker' during his second inaugural address and also openly advised against getting involved in any Iranian regime change. Smith argued that Iran's leadership has now been pushed to a point where they 'probably don't feel that they have the option not to respond' after strikes that killed the country's top military officials and hit its nuclear facilities. 'And Donald Trump telling them to come back to the negotiating table now is a joke, I mean, what an impotent leader to be sitting there coming back to the negotiating table,' he said. 'It's like sitting after Pearl Harbor and telling FDR, 'Now's the time to go negotiate with the Japanese. Negotiations are over now, the time for negotiations was before this.' Smith later predicted that the president is 'going to lose his coalition' over his handling of the most recent conflict. 'I don't just speak for myself when I say there are a lot of us who simply will not go along with this, so it's just a devastating mistake,' he emphasized. Trump To Depart The G7 Early As Conflict Between Israel And Iran Shows Signs Of Intensifying Trump Escalates His Feud With Tucker Carlson Over Israel And Iran US Bolsters Trump's Middle East Military Options By Moving Refueling Aircraft, Officials Say
Newsweek
11 hours ago
- Politics
- Newsweek
Joe Rogan Regular Apologizes For Supporting Trump, Calls For Impeachment
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Comedian and frequent Joe Rogan guest, Dave Smith, has apologized for supporting President Donald Trump, and is now calling for his impeachment. Smith, who hosts the libertarian podcast Part of the Problem, said that he felt betrayed by Trump over his policy on Iran. "I supported him... I apologize for doing so," he said during an appearance on the Breaking Points podcast. "He should be impeached and removed." "His supporters should turn on him. It's an absolute betrayal of everything he ran and campaigned on," he continued. "He is going to lose his coalition over this." This is breaking news, more updates to follow.
Politico
4 days ago
- Politics
- Politico
MAGA Warned Trump on Iran. Now He's In An Impossible Position.
President Donald Trump campaigned on ending what his base has long derided as U.S. foreign adventurism, leading the rebellion against an establishment that long favored international interventions. Now some of his most vocal supporters fear Israel may have trampled his ability to make good on that promise. The Jewish nation's decision to conduct a pre-emptive strike on Tehran's nuclear facilities on Thursday night threatens to draw the United States into a Middle East conflict — and split the MAGA coalition that catapulted Trump back into the Oval Office. While administration officials say the U.S. played no part in the offensive, it was unclear as of Thursday night whether the U.S. will be able to actually stay on the sidelines. Trump will almost certainly feel compelled to help defend Israel against counter-attacks by Iran. And there are real questions about how Tehran — which was slated to meet with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff for the latest round of peace talks on Sunday — will react. Will they, for instance, blame the U.S. and retaliate on American bases in the region, forcing Trump's hand into a military operation he long campaigned against? The entire situation is infuriating the MAGA base, whose leaders had been imploring Trump to stop Israel in recent days. But the president either tried and failed, highlighting his lack of sway with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu — or he privately greenlit the campaign against the warnings of his base (which the administration firmly denies). Either way, the president who insisted his negotiating prowess would usher in a new age of world peace, now finds himself in perhaps the diciest situation of his presidency: facing down the possibility of leaving Israel to fend for itself — or joining it in going toe to toe with Iran. 'What the president does from here could end up defining his presidency,' MAGA scribe Matt Boyle of Breitbart told me just after news of the strikes. 'He has to balance protecting America's greatest ally in the region in Israel with avoiding getting the USA drawn into war.' Others in the MAGA-sphere already had an answer: Stay out. 'Israel has now made a mockery of the United States,' said Breaking Points host Saagar Enjeti, who earlier in the day predicted on X that 'a war with Iran would make the disastrous war in Iraq look like a cakewalk.' He added, 'President Trump today said he did not want strikes ahead of negotiations scheduled for tomorrow and they did it anyways. Their attack today is deliberate sabotage and a blatant attempt to force us into war. We must resist.' Indeed, moments after the strike occurred, Trump ally Charlie Kirk went live with his supporters and declared the entire situation a mess that 'is now going to have major American domestic implications.' Americans will once again start debating whether to finance Israel and sell them arms, he said — and if we do, Tehran could react. 'As you very well know, I'm very pro-Israel on this show; I'm just simply interpreting the political dynamics here,' he said. 'And I could tell you right now that the audience, you guys ... are not thrilled with this situation at all.' 'The question is also, I think fundamentally at its core: How does the America First foreign policy doctrine and foreign policy agenda … stay consistent with this right now?' he asked. Israel's offensive came after pleas to the president from the MAGA base reached a fever pitch on Thursday. Some of the most high-profile figures of the movement took to social media, podcasts and television imploring Trump to intervene to stop it, believing that he actually could. Kirk — the Turning Point USA leader who's become a de facto whip for the administration— warned that a strike on Iran 'will cause a massive schism in MAGA.' Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief at the right-wing publication, The Federalist — who frequently lavishes praise on Trump on Fox News — argued that allowing the Israeli strike 'would be seen as an unforgivable betrayal by millions of American voters.' Right-wing activist Jack Posobiec warned that the midterms are nearing and wondered: 'What do you think a new Middle East conflict with Iran would do to summer gas prices?' And on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast two days in a row, Boyle insisted that 'it's incredibly important that President Trump resist the pressure' for military action. 'The president listens to the base — it's his best quality,' Boyle had told me earlier in the day.'Clearly people across the MAGA movement are watching what's happening very closely and are concerned that any moves by globalists and neocon forces to drag the United States into another endless war in the Middle East would cause serious political damage to the president.' Just a few days ago, many of these types were only talking about this issue privately — if they were talking about it at all. For the few who went public, they directed their criticism at hawks like Mark Levin or others they deem 'warmongers,' as I wrote three days ago. But in light of evacuation orders for some State and other U.S. officials in the region, those pleas took on new urgency on Thursday — and were being redirected at the man they put in the Oval Office. The public pleas presumed, of course, that Trump had the sway to actually stop Israel from forging ahead on its own. While many experts have suggested Israel would want a 'green light' from Trump before acting, all of a sudden some began questioning whether that was still the case. It turned out it wasn't. Speaking to reporters at a bill signing Thursday, Trump bluntly warned that an Israeli strike on Iran 'could very well happen' — though he made clear his preference is for diplomacy and that he's asked Israelis to hold off. But Trump allies have argued that it won't matter if the U.S. isn't technically the country to start the war — if Israel gets involved, so will the U.S. The White House appears to recognize the political sensitivities. Throughout the day, officials appeared to closely monitor the MAGA pushback on Iran: At 11:57 a.m. Enjeti highlighted a nugget in a CBS story reporting that Trump was 'weighing options.. .to support Israeli military action without leading it ... including aerial refueling or intelligence sharing.' 'The narrative of an independent Israeli strike is bunk then,' he wrote. 'This would be a U.S. sanctioned operation, and we must stand against it.' One hour later, Enjeti updated his followers that he got 'some push back from a WH official,' who said the U.S. won't be involved in a strike by Israel 'at least for now.' (I was told the same last night by an administration official before the strike.) I called up Enjeti Thursday afternoon to get his take on what's going on. The first thing he did was draw my attention to a 2011 video clip of Trump slamming President Barack Obama, claiming that 'our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate.' 'He's weak and he's ineffective,' Trump said of Obama. 'We have a real problem in the White House.' The clip, Enjeti said, was making the rounds on Thursday among MAGA types. 'It's being passed around specifically because that was a key tenet of his indictment of the George W. Bush/neoconservative wing of the party,' Enjeti said. What's happening now 'is very counter to the things he said from the very beginning, on the campaign trail — it flies really in the face of the way he talked about 'stupid leaders who pursue disastrous foreign wars.'' By the end of Thursday, Trump appeared to be getting the message, doubling down on his insistence that he wants to avoid a new Middle East conflict. 'We remain committed to a Diplomatic Resolution to the Iran Nuclear Issue!' he wrote on Truth Social. 'My entire Administration has been directed to negotiate with Iran.' Hours after he posted that missive, Israel struck Tehran.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
MAGA Warned Trump on Iran. Now He's In An Impossible Position.
President Donald Trump campaigned on ending what his base has long derided as U.S. foreign adventurism, leading the rebellion against an establishment that long favored international interventions. Now some of his most vocal supporters fear Israel may have trampled his ability to make good on that promise. The Jewish nation's decision to conduct a pre-emptive strike on Tehran's nuclear facilities on Thursday night threatens to draw the United States into a Middle East conflict — and split the MAGA coalition that catapulted Trump back into the Oval Office. While administration officials say the U.S. played no part in the offensive, it was unclear as of Thursday night whether the U.S. will be able to actually stay on the sidelines. Trump will almost certainly feel compelled to help defend Israel against counter-attacks by Iran. And there are real questions about how Tehran — which was slated to meet with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff for the latest round of peace talks on Sunday — will react. Will they, for instance, blame the U.S. and retaliate on American bases in the region, forcing Trump's hand into a military operation he long campaigned against? The entire situation is infuriating the MAGA base, whose leaders had been imploring Trump to stop Israel in recent days. But the president either tried and failed, highlighting his lack of sway with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu — or he privately greenlit the campaign against the warnings of his base (which the administration firmly denies). Either way, the president who insisted his negotiating prowess would usher in a new age of world peace, now finds himself in perhaps the diciest situation of his presidency: facing down the possibility of leaving Israel to fend for itself — or joining it in going toe to toe with Iran. 'What the president does from here could end up defining his presidency,' MAGA scribe Matt Boyle of Breitbart told me just after news of the strikes. 'He has to balance protecting America's greatest ally in the region in Israel with avoiding getting the USA drawn into war.' Others in the MAGA-sphere already had an answer: Stay out. 'Israel has now made a mockery of the United States,' said Breaking Points host Saagar Enjeti, who earlier in the day predicted on X that 'a war with Iran would make the disastrous war in Iraq look like a cakewalk.' He added, 'President Trump today said he did not want strikes ahead of negotiations scheduled for tomorrow and they did it anyways. Their attack today is deliberate sabotage and a blatant attempt to force us into war. We must resist.' Indeed, moments after the strike occurred, Trump ally Charlie Kirk went live with his supporters and declared the entire situation a mess that 'is now going to have major American domestic implications.' Americans will once again start debating whether to finance Israel and sell them arms, he said — and if we do, Tehran could react. 'As you very well know, I'm very pro-Israel on this show; I'm just simply interpreting the political dynamics here,' he said. 'And I could tell you right now that the audience, you guys ... are not thrilled with this situation at all.' 'The question is also, I think fundamentally at its core: How does the America First foreign policy doctrine and foreign policy agenda … stay consistent with this right now?' he asked. Israel's offensive came after pleas to the president from the MAGA base reached a fever pitch on Thursday. Some of the most high-profile figures of the movement took to social media, podcasts and television imploring Trump to intervene to stop it, believing that he actually could. Kirk — the Turning Point USA leader who's become a de facto whip for the administration—warned that a strike on Iran 'will cause a massive schism in MAGA.' Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief at the right-wing publication, The Federalist — who frequently lavishes praise on Trump on Fox News —argued that allowing the Israeli strike 'would be seen as an unforgivable betrayal by millions of American voters.' Right-wing activist Jack Posobiec warned that the midterms are nearing and wondered: 'What do you think a new Middle East conflict with Iran would do to summer gas prices?' And on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast two days in a row, Boyle insisted that 'it's incredibly important that President Trump resist the pressure' for military action. 'The president listens to the base — it's his best quality,' Boyle had told me earlier in the day.'Clearly people across the MAGA movement are watching what's happening very closely and are concerned that any moves by globalists and neocon forces to drag the United States into another endless war in the Middle East would cause serious political damage to the president.' Just a few days ago, many of these types were only talking about this issue privately — if they were talking about it at all. For the few who went public, they directed their criticism at hawks like Mark Levin or others they deem 'warmongers,' as I wrote three days ago. But in light of evacuation orders for some State and other U.S. officials in the region, those pleas took on new urgency on Thursday — and were being redirected at the man they put in the Oval Office. The public pleas presumed, of course, that Trump had the sway to actually stop Israel from forging ahead on its own. While many experts have suggested Israel would want a 'green light' from Trump before acting, all of a sudden some began questioning whether that was still the case. It turned out it wasn't. Speaking to reporters at a bill signing Thursday, Trump bluntly warned that an Israeli strike on Iran 'could very well happen' — though he made clear his preference is for diplomacy and that he's asked Israelis to hold off. But Trump allies have argued that it won't matter if the U.S. isn't technically the country to start the war — if Israel gets involved, so will the U.S. The White House appears to recognize the political sensitivities. Throughout the day, officials appeared to closely monitor the MAGA pushback on Iran: At 11:57 a.m. Enjeti highlighteda nugget in a CBS story reporting that Trump was "weighing options.. .to support Israeli military action without leading it ... including aerial refueling or intelligence sharing.' 'The narrative of an independent Israeli strike is bunk then,'he wrote. 'This would be a U.S. sanctioned operation, and we must stand against it.' One hour later, Enjeti updated his followers that he got 'some push back from a WH official,' who said the U.S. won't be involved in a strike by Israel 'at least for now.' (I was told the same last night by an administration official before the strike.) I called up Enjeti Thursday afternoon to get his take on what's going on. The first thing he did was draw my attention toa 2011 video clip of Trump slamming President Barack Obama, claiming that 'our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate.' 'He's weak and he's ineffective,' Trump said of Obama. 'We have a real problem in the White House.' The clip, Enjeti said, was making the rounds on Thursday among MAGA types. 'It's being passed around specifically because that was a key tenet of his indictment of the George W. Bush/neoconservative wing of the party,' Enjeti said. What's happening now 'is very counter to the things he said from the very beginning, on the campaign trail — it flies really in the face of the way he talked about 'stupid leaders who pursue disastrous foreign wars.'' By the end of Thursday, Trump appeared to be getting the message, doubling down on his insistence that he wants to avoid a new Middle East conflict. 'We remain committed to a Diplomatic Resolution to the Iran Nuclear Issue!' he wrote on Truth Social. 'My entire Administration has been directed to negotiate with Iran.' Hours after he posted that missive, Israel struck Tehran.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Tariffs Disturb His Own Supporters in Conservative Media: ‘Really Problematic'
President Trump has described his new tariff plan as a 'beautiful thing to behold' — but not everyone in conservative media feels the same way. A number of prominent right-leaning voices have shared their displeasure with the president's 'liberation day' tariffs since he announced them last week, including Ben Shapiro, who started his show off on Monday by sharing his thoughts on the matter. Shapiro said there are a few cases where tariffs are an 'important' and 'totally understandable' tool, including when they can be used to leverage other countries to give the U.S. better trade deals. But he said the Trump Administration's belief that 'tariffs are good' and trade wars are 'easy to win' is 'really problematic.' 'The idea that this is inherently good, it makes the American economy strong is wrongheaded. It is untrue,' Shapiro said. 'The idea that is going to result in mass reshoring of manufacturing is also untrue.' Shapiro later called the chart President Trump showed off last week at the White House, highlighting the new tariffs, was 'ridiculous.' The Daily Wire co-founder, who has more than 7 million YouTube subscribers, said stocks on Wall Street have plummeted because of the uncertainty surrounding the president's long-term plans. 'It is absolutely unclear what President Trump is thinking at this point — and herein lies the problem,' Shapiro said. 'You have a vast combination of radical uncertainty and policy that is being spouted by members of the administration that is overtly bad. There is no one in the administration who's making the overtly good case; there are many people in the administration who are making bad to strained cases right now.' His criticism stands out, considering he was one of President Trump's most vocal supporters in the lead up to the 2024 election; Shapiro was also in attendance last month for the president's speech before Congress. But he is not the only conservative commentator who has questioned the tariffs. Ryan Saavedra, a reporter for The Daily Wire with more than 358,000 followers on X, has re-posted several comments that are skeptical the tariffs will work. He also shared a screenshot of a text from a right-wing friend on Sunday that blasted the 'insane' tariffs. 'You start messing around with people's investments and 401(k)s and you're going to lose support — fast,' Saavedra posted. Saagar Enjeti, the right-leaning co-host of 'Breaking Points' on YouTube, which has 1.42 million subscribers, has expressed his reservations about the president's plan as well. 'Not joking: the White House would have been better off using ChatGPT than whatever the f–k this is,' Enjeti posted on X last week in response to a picture of the president holding up a cardboard breakdown of his new tariffs. Enjeti reiterated his irritation with the new tariff plan on Monday's episode of 'Breaking Points.' He said that, while he is generally 'pro-tariff,' the rollout from the Trump Administration has been messy and goes beyond he discussed on the campaign trail last year. 'Nobody — nobody — this is why the markets crashed as they were — floated a 35-40% tariff,' Enjeti said. 'That's where this is 10 times out of step even with allegedly many of the things that he sold on the campaign trail. And that is why you're seeing the level of freak out,' he continued. 'And very soon, real voters, you are going to feel this in a very real way. Screw retirement. We're talking layoffs.' In the two days following Trump's tariff announcement last week, the markets saw $5.4 trillion in value evaporate while the S&P 500 plummeted to its lowest level in 11 months. Friday's sell-off market the biggest single-day decline for the S&P 500 and Dow since COVID-19 rocked the market in March 2020, while the Nasdaq suffered its biggest single-day hit since 2020 on Thursday. President Trump, in a post on Truth Social before markets opened on Monday, called on investors to hang tough while global economies adjusted to his tariffs. 'The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO,' the president posted. 'Don't be Weak! Don't be Stupid! Don't be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!' Elon Musk does not appear to be as patient about the tariffs as the president, though. The X owner — who prominently backed President Trump during the 2024 election and has been spearheading the new Department of Government Efficiency for the administration — posted a video on Monday of economist Milton Friedman explaining how a pencil is made with parts from all over the world. The post was viewed by many as a stealth rebuke of President Trump's plan, a day after he said the U.S. is 'not going to lose a trillion dollars for the privilege of buying pencils from China.'The post Trump Tariffs Disturb His Own Supporters in Conservative Media: 'Really Problematic' appeared first on TheWrap.
