Trump Grows Pissed at Tulsi Gabbard as Israel-Iran Conflict Worsens
President Trump is reportedly furious with Tulsi Gabbard after the director of national intelligence posted a professionally produced, three-minute-long X video last week referencing past nuclear disasters. Gabbard's post went mostly unnoticed at the time, but now seems like a clear rebuke of U.S. support for Israel's war on Iran.
'As we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,' Gabbard says in the video as ominous music swells in the background. 'And perhaps it's because they are confident that they will have access to nuclear shelters for themselves and for their families that regular people won't have access to. So it's up to us, the people, to speak up and demand an end to this madness. We must reject this path to nuclear war and work toward a world where no one has to live in fear of a nuclear holocaust.'
The president was apparently not a fan of Gabbard's unauthorized rebuke of the direction his administration was leaning on Israel, as multiple war hawks visited Trump just days before Gabbard posted the video.
'I don't care what she said,' Trump stated on Tuesday when asked about Gabbard's video on Air Force One. 'I think they were very close to having a weapon.'
'I don't think he dislikes Tulsi as a person.… But certainly the video made him not super hot on her … and he doesn't like it when people are off message,' a senior administration official told Politico.
The beef between Trump and Gabbard shows that the MAGA split between blind military support for Israel versus 'America First' anti-interventionists, like Gabbard, is much more than just an online spat. There is a real ideological schism on display with regard to Trump's deference to Israel's wars, and even die-hard Trump supporters have begun raising their voices against another endless war in the Middle East—something Trump promised to stop during his campaign.
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