GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Joseph Bolick feels betrayed by President Donald Trump. And it’s because of the war in Iran.
The 30-year-old Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran voted for Trump in 2024. But at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference gathering this week he sported a hat emblazoned with “America First” — a slogan Trump championed during his campaign, along with the promise not to start new wars in foreign countries.
“He’s lied about everything,” said Bolick. “If you go into a war where there’s no end game, how is it going to end? There’s no clear objective.”
“America First”? Trump is not wrong, he simply didn’t tell you the verb. “Sell America First”.
You back a fucker because they’ll fuck someone you hate. Well, its only a matter of time before the fucker fucks you.
30-year-old veteran, eh? The real “leopards ate my face” is gonna be when he gets called back up and shipped out.
I mean, why else do we think this was the final straw?
So the war is the straw that broke the camel’s back? Not that he’s a rapist or a convicted felon? Not that he let Musk destroy the government? Or that ICE is running rampant kidnapping and killing Americans and people of other nationalities? Or that he illegally sunk foreign boats in international waters? Or that he is trying undermine the constitution they hold so dear? Or that he raised the cost of living? Or he killed a million Americans by pretending Covid wasn’t real and told people to try stupid things?
No, it’s not.
This is just the 100th iteration of “this time they will really start to criticise Trump”. And then the cult gets new orders and instantly they will fall silent and shift their opinion as instructed to match their new reality.
These people really took 1984 as an instruction manual.
This is just the 100th iteration of “this time they will really start to criticise Trump”.
Yep. I’ve stopped thinking any straw will break the camel’s back of maga. They seem willing to accept literally any behavior from him. Every one of these articles about disillusioned trumpers never seems to have a basis in more than one or two anecdotal examples. These headlines exist only to provide copium (or maybe hopium) to the rest of us.
Every one of these articles about disillusioned trumpers never seems to have a basis in more than one or two anecdotal examples.
That’s entirely a matter of perspective, or more precise here: timing.
That wide outrage really exists. But it is very short-lived and just a case of “waiting on new instruction how to think”.
History says hat the straw that breaks the back of the cult of personality is the death or disempowerment of their figurehead.
I believe you are right that nothing that the leadership does will lose them support, but if there are endictments that least to prison or key deaths, it will come undone.
I believe that when that happens the spell will break, you will have a hard time finding anyone who will admit to have supported this regime or many of its actions.
Yup. 79% of Republicans approve of how Trump is handling the Iran War. No reasonable and informed person can hold that opinion - we are not dealing with serious people here.
How about the thing these dumbasses really pretend to care about - spending? This moron has spent almost 6 TRILLION fuckin’ dollars since he returned to office and inflation is through the roof (just like last time you fucking geniuses!) but I’m gonna need a crystal ball to know who they’re going to blame it on because he hasn’t been elected yet. Whoever they blame, you can bet his last name won’t be TRUMP.
They only recognize schadenfreude when it bites them in the ass.
I was gonna throw another few out, but the truth is you could keep going forever. There is no bottom to his depravity, and there is no limit to his criminality. Any list, no matter how exhaustive, would come up short.
For many, they believed him when he said those were lies and political attacks.
Basically everything related to the Iran War however is easily demonstrably false. And the ramifications quick and obvious to the average person. It’s one of the reasons the admin is working so quickly to prevent news reporting they haven’t approved about it.
I keep seeing this pattern. I think a lot of former supporters are really sick of his shit and are just looking for the most politically convenient excuse to finally break with him. E.g. Joe Kent.
I hope this is why
So… revelations around him being a child predator is not a politically convenient excuse to break with him?
Sadly, high gas prices and a correction in the stock market are somehow a bigger deal than being exposed as a child rapist.
Keep in mind that many of these MAGA folks are in a tribe that will make excuses for anything their idol does, and the tribe will follow because that is what a tribe does. They are in a tribe because they are weak people, mentally and morally.
no, he can rape their daughters and they’ll forgive him.
him being a pedophile racist dictator with a long documented history of lying and grifting was a good thing for his supporters. they saw him as relatable.
the problem for them is that gas prices went up. so now it affects them a little bit.
And the young Republicans boys don’t want to be sent to war ! They may be stupid but they know who gets sent to wars.
The poor, minority men who don’t have enough cash or clout from Daddy to get out of it or get cushy non-frontline positions? Cause that’s who gets sent to fight these wars. These guys would be officers sitting in offices and not fighting. And they know it as well as we do.
He will still vote Republican in the midterms and in 2028.
a rapist
Yeah, but he’s just getting what men should be getting, the concept of ‘rape’ doesn’t make sense since women shouldn’t have a say in it
convicted felon
That’s just those libs falsely persecuting him you see.
let Musk destroy the government?
The biggest thing was this super liberal sounding US AID where we help people who should be lifting themselves up by their bootstraps
kidnapping and killing Americans and people of other nationalities
You mean those spanish speaking people who don’t speak American good enough? Or the libs that deserve what they got for being libs?
sunk foreign boats in international waters
Yeah, those were some of them non-Muricans again, good riddance
undermine the constitution
Yeah, but imagine how much that’ll own the libs!
pretending Covid wasn’t real and told people to try stupid things?
Covid wasn’t real, and if it was, it wasn’t his fault and I’m sure Fauci is somehow to blame…
he raised the cost of living
Well, that’s where we are now, my 10 mile to the gallon vehicle now costs hundreds of dollars to fill up, and that is what matters. All to help out some jews that MAGA largely otherwise looks down upon.
War affects their pocketbook in a more concrete way.
These people have always been selfish.
A 66 percent majority of older MAGA men are willing to sacrifice American lives in order for the U.S. to achieve its goals in Iran, compared with less than half of younger MAGA men who say the same.
Yeah no shit. The younger guys are the ones who are gonna get shot and blown up.
You know these kids can fix this in one easy step, right?
he ain’t no senator’s son
What goals would those be? Would it be opening the Strait of Hormuz? Or how about an Iran without nuclear weapons?
Funny how we had both of those “goals” before the shitgibbon started the war.
The goal is avoiding punishment for raping all those children over the past 40ish years
b-but Iran was 2 weeks away from having nuclear weapons…
Excuse me, its now the Strait of Trump. Did you not watch the God Emperor say so yesterday?
Did he actually say that?
I stopped paying attention for like 5 minutes and he does about 11 stupid things.
He did: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/27/trump-strait-of-hormuz-iran-war.html
Can you imagine the screeching of Fox News, if Obama had done that even in jest? And Trump is not joking, Trump never “jokes”.
Translation: A 66 percent majority of older MAGA men are willing to sacrifice
Americanother people’s lives.And the younger MAGA men would also support it, as long as it was guaranteed to be other young men and not them specifically.
puts hand in fire
Ow! The fire that we were warned incessantly to be excruciatingly hot, burned our other hand once already, then incessantly warned would burn us again if we did the same thing, just burned is again when we did the same thing! 😢
“Read my lips, no new wars”?
Politicians lie. Who knew?
Dumb people believe those lies.
President of Peace
Well yeah, but that was before he knew he had to distract the world from the fact that he raped children on Epstein’s island.
If only he had a lifetime history of pathological lying to serve as a warning flag.
Because…
as usual
It’s finally affecting them personally. Gas and diesel prices are rising. Wait until food starts to go higher again.
Every Democrat:
Sitouts: yea but we need to save gaza! Fuck all of the countries! And especially fuck ourselves!
At least no one had the option to vote against genocide.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-corruption-of-politico The corruption of politico
They aren’t turning on him. He’s not on shaky ground. You people are damn fools I’d you believe that.
Most Republicans are not turning on Trump, true. But it doesn’t take more than ~5% switching from Republican to Democrat, to make Republicans never win a national election again.
Looking in from Europe, the immovability of US voters is quite bizarre to me. Most people I know don’t have being a “Republican” or similar as part of their personal identity.
That’s not them turning on Trump. That’s them being so conditioned to cheer for anything they hear on stage that they’re just mindlessly cheering. You can’t honestly think they’re wanting to impeach Trump, come on man, there’s no way you’re that fucking stupid to believe that.
They cheered repeatedly, but since you’re too “fucking stupid” to read the article we’re done here.
I watched the video man, christ.
Huh. I guess they don’t appreciate Trump’s mastery of 3D chess after all.
On the plus side for humanity, it’s a volatile group known to express displeasure through ballistics, and at the same time ideally placed/uncolored/gendered to get within range.
Don’t fuck it up, boys.
Yeah but if this lot could actually aim worth a damn we wouldn’t be having this problem right now.
Yeah, just can’t rely on them for anything! Thomas Crooks could have walked right up into that rally but instead tried for the sniper shot, and didn’t sneak well enough to be calm and unobserved while aiming. Slipshod work.
