Trump Has Already Pivoted to Mulling Regime Change in Iran With Latest Post
Trump has already pivoted from “this isn’t about regime change” as an admin talking to point, to… there might possibly be regime change after all.
And all the while he’s lecturing Thomas Massie about not being ‘MAGA’ amid a ‘debate’ over what it is to be America First…
As world leaders urgently called for diplomacy, President Trump raised the prospect of regime change in Tehran on Sunday, less than 24 hours after U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites stoked fears of a dangerously escalating conflict across the Middle East.
“If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???” Mr. Trump wrote in a post on his social media site. The post came after top members of his administration spent much of the day emphasizing that the United States did not intend to enter an all-out war with Tehran.
This could very well become Bush/Cheney’s Trump’s Iraq War. And look who is very happy…
Dear President Trump, Bolton is back into the MAGA fold, but who is the one that has changed?
Update (15:59ET): Republican rep Thomas Massie of Kentucky has been one of the very few outspoken Congressmen on either side of the aisle to blast Trump’s Iran bombing campaign, done without Congressional authorization or so much as debate or consultation.
Massie was seeking to introduce a war powers resolution in the House ahead of ‘bombs away’ on Iran. The conservative and libertarian-leading Congressman wants to legally prohibit American involvement in Iran.
“This is not our war. But if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our constitution,” he stated last week. In weekend media appearances, he’s also been calling out the Trump administration for shilling for Israel and Netanyahu. For example, on ‘Face the Nation’ he strongly suggested that the White House and some in Congress are being unduly influenced by a foreign power.
Critics of Trump’s Iran policy are complaining that America fighting the Israelis’ wars for them is not at all ‘America First’ – while Trump’s team has touted this as ‘limited’ and intent on eliminating Iran’s nuclear program.
These and other criticisms have prompted a Sunday Trump response on Truth Social. He took Massie to task for his defiant stance, saying he’s “not Maga” and that “MAGA doesn’t want him”…
Social media, including X, has in the last days been taken over by MAGA infighting over the Iran issue. After all, Trump campaigned on a platform that was against starting new wars; however, he also vowed to prevent Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon.
Critics have said that the Trump people now sound just like Bush-era NeoCons when it comes to taking ‘preemptive’ action over WMD fears in the Middle East.