Overview
- Carrie Prejean Boller told Piers Morgan that she no longer recognizes the president, accused him of foreign influence, and declared MAGA “deader than dead.”
- National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent quit in protest, writing that Iran posed no imminent threat and arguing U.S. action followed pressure from Israel and its lobby.
- Trump asserted on Truth Social, “THEY ARE NOT MAGA, I AM,” redefining MAGA as preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, while the White House rejected reports of internal remorse.
- Conservative media and GOP figures have split publicly over the war, with critics like Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Marjorie Taylor Greene clashing with hawkish Republicans including Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz.
- The conflict began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb. 28 that killed Iran’s supreme leader; Iran’s retaliation has left at least 13 U.S. service members dead and disrupted oil flows, driving fuel prices higher and prompting electoral warnings from right-leaning analysts.