By Mario Parker, Jamie Tarabay, and Nancy Cook
Donald Trump’s hints that he may dispatch the US military to help Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear program has spurred a revolt from his typically faithful America First base, further dividing a party already struggling to unite around the president’s second-term agenda.
Trump continues to be non-committal on what he’ll ultimately decide, but his rhetoric toward Iran has grown more belligerent in the six days since Israel launched its offensive — pushing the US closer to involvement in a foreign war.
That’s firmly at odds with a central tenet of Trump’s own “Make America Great Again” movement, fashioned during his political ascent amid voter frustration with decades of US military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump sharpened his anti-war stance during the 2024 election as he hit President Joe Biden over the haphazard US withdrawal from Afghanistan and pledged to avoid conflicts overseas.
As recently as last month — and speaking in the Middle East, where he’s currently building up US forces for potential engagement — Trump lambasted the US “neocons” for the wars they fought in the region. He said he wants the Mideast to be a place “where people of different nations, religions and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other out of existence.”
Now, as Trump agitates on Iran, the intra-MAGA fault lines are deepening.
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