AGAINST THE ROPES

Rattled Trump Amps Up MAGA Civil War With Late-Night Threat

The 79-year-old president sent a chilling warning to top MAGA stars who might dare to question him.

Donald Trump blasted high-profile MAGA figures who have attacked the president over his war on Iran by claiming that Tuesday’s elections prove their influence is waning.

In a late-night Truth Social post, the 79-year-old shared an article from the Just the News website attacking former supporters who have turned on the “America First” president for launching the Middle East conflict despite his 2024 campaign pledge not to start any new wars.

The article notes that even as a MAGA civil war erupts, almost all of Trump’s endorsed candidates in Tuesday’s primaries went on to win their respective races. The majority of these Trump-backed candidates were incumbents widely expected to win their primaries anyway, or ran unopposed.

“Former MAGA firebrands who once wielded clout among President Donald Trump’s base were watching their influence evaporate in Republican primaries Tuesday amid infighting, backlash, and shifting loyalties,” Just the News’ Amanda Head wrote.

“Trump’s success did not transpire without efforts by his detractors to prevent it, however. Multiple social media influencers who once backed the 47th president have now turned away from that support and have become ardent critics. But their attempts overwhelmingly failed.”

Multiple prominent MAGA figureheads have been outspoken in their opposition to the war in Iran, which the Trump administration has struggled to justify or give any real indication of when it could end.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson called the joint U.S.-Israel airstrikes “absolutely evil and disgusting.” He also suggested the war was “waged purely because Israel wanted it to be waged.”

MAGA podcaster Megyn Kelly spent the entirety of her Monday show speaking out against the war and the reasons behind it.

“I don’t think those service members died for the United States. I think they died for Iran or for Israel,” Kelly said. “No one is crying that the ayatollah is dead, but our government’s job is not to look out for Iran or Israel. It’s to look out for us.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former MAGA mouthpiece who has since turned on the president, has been her usual firebrand self while attacking Trump and his war.

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“Whatever Trump’s new twisted perversion of MAGA is, is going to LOSE in the midterms,” the former Georgia congresswoman posted on X Wednesday. “People do not want to vote for this s--t show and didn’t turn out in Texas. Maybe they will wake up now and realize Armageddon is not what we voted for.”

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Trump had already lashed out at Carlson and Kelly for their criticism of the Iran war.

“I think that MAGA is Trump—MAGA’s not the other two,” Trump told reporter Rachel Bade earlier this week. “MAGA wants to see our country thrive and be safe. And MAGA loves what I’m doing—every aspect of it.”

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