Trump’s Iran stance divides the MAGA movement - and the White House loses all restraint

It was a moment that laid bare the full political disarray of the United States. As Donald Trump sat aboard Air Force One, flying back from an abruptly ended G7 summit in Canada, the president was not speaking about diplomacy or security - but about Tucker Carlson. About Marjorie Taylor Greene. About Charlie Kirk. And about a governor whose state was mourning two murdered lawmakers. The world is on the brink of a new Middle East war. Yet at the center of American power, another drama is unfolding - the growing rift between Trump and his own loyalists. “IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” the president wrote in all caps on his social media platform - a direct response to Carlson, who had previously warned him not to betray his own base by launching another war in the Middle East.

That the president is now clashing not only with the Democratic opposition but with his own base reveals a deeper erosion of his political compass. Trump’s foreign policy calculus has long become a stage for national self-dramatization - regardless of the consequences. The criticism from within his own ranks shows that the once-unified MAGA movement is fracturing. While Carlson was still seen in 2020 as the mouthpiece of Trumpist conservatism, he is now publicly dismissed as “kooky.” Marjorie Taylor Greene and Charlie Kirk are also urging restraint - America must not once again become a pawn in global power struggles - but Trump reacts as always: petulantly, imperiously, and devoid of any sense of responsibility.

The peak of tastelessness came when Trump was asked about the targeted killings of two lawmakers in Minnesota. Would he call the Democratic governor, Tim Walz? “I’m not calling him,” Trump responded. “He’s slick and whacked out. That would be a waste of time.” Two dead, including a husband - but for the president of the United States, that is no reason for sympathy, only an opportunity for defamation. While the country wonders how it came to this, Trump is showing with chilling clarity how little political responsibility and empathy mean in his world. And what remains is what has long become the norm - a president who divides where he should unite - even when the nation is in mourning.