President Trump’s strategy regarding Iran has been remarkable.

The President of the United States has — with no use of American military personnel — devastated the Iranian nuclear resources to the point that Iran is begging the Americans to come to the table now.

Trump has said that all options are still on the table. It may be that if the Iranian nuclear site Fordow is still in operation a couple of weeks from now or a week from now, and the Iranians will not come to the table, there may be one B-2 sortie in Fordow — with no capacity for Iran to fire back because Israel has already destroyed all of the ballistic missiles that would be aimed at any place that threatens Americans.

The danger is that if Iran retains the nuclear fuel it has already enriched, as well as the centrifuges to enrich more, the country could sprint to make a bomb. This is where the United States comes in. Israel lacks the deep penetrating bombs and the heavy bombers to deliver them that could do more damage to buried sites such as Fordow. President Trump endorsed the initial Israeli attacks, but he continues to suggest the bombing could increase the chances of negotiating a deal to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.

Meanwhile, President Trump is using the Israelis as the bad cop while he is the good cop.

He is saying to the Iranians that the Israelis are doing what they’re going to do, and we don’t control them. They’re their own country. They can do what they’re doing, and you can continue to weather that as best you can. But, he’s saying, at a certain point, if this continues and you won’t give up Fordow, there might be a B-2 headed your way. Or maybe we’ll find some other way with Israel. Maybe Israel will do it on its own. We just don’t know what’s going to happen next.

President Trump has played this absolutely brilliantly. If you had told people, just a few years ago, that Iran’s nuclear regime would be on the precipice of collapse with zero regional fallout — zero — and the United States would not have expended a single offensive missile in that effort, people would have thought that that was genius level stuff.

You know why?

Because it is genius level stuff.

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Meanwhile, there are people on the Right who have now declared that they are the leaders of MAGA, not Donald Trump, that they are the great leaders of America First and MAGA.

Tucker Carlson put out a statement on Friday in his newsletter, in which he stated that President Trump was “complicit in the act of war.” The newsletter was dramatically titled, “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War,” suggesting World War III could break out as a result of the Israel-Iran war.

He wrote:

While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the U.S. at the center of last night’s events. Washington knew these attacks would happen. They aided Israel in carrying them out. Politicians purporting to be America First can’t now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it. Our country is in deep.

While Donald Trump has been speaking about America First, only Tucker Carlson, who tours Moscow supermarkets to talk about how good the bread is and how he wishes that our subway system ran just like Moscow’s; only Tucker Carlson, who does interviews with the leadership of Qatar and talks about how they are an amazing ally to the United States while they simultaneously support Hamas; only Tucker Carlson, who hosts people like Darryl Cooper, whom he calls the “greatest and most honest historian in America” — the same guy who over the weekend suggested that America should launch missiles against Tel Aviv — only Tucker Carlson is truly America first, not Donald Trump.

Not Donald Trump, who built the America First movement, who built MAGA; only Tucker Carlson and his friends are truly MAGA in America First.

Over the weekend, Carlson doubled down, claiming:

The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support around the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence and those who seek to prevent it. Between warmongers and peacemakers.

This is Tucker’s shtick: that anyone who opposes him is a warmonger who wants more war, who just loves war.

Okay. Who are the people who love and desperately want war? He says:

Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct U.S. military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.

First of all, I’m not aware that any of those people are directly calling Donald Trump and saying that he must directly intervene in this current conflict. Second of all, he is suggesting that you’re a warmonger if you want the Iranian nuclear program to end.

So I guess Donald Trump is a warmonger because Donald Trump wants the nuclear program to end. And you know who said Trump wants the nuclear program to end? Donald Trump. You know who the actual leader of MAGA is? Donald Trump. He created MAGA.

It is Donald Trump who created the America First movement.

It is not Tucker Carlson, and it is not Marjorie Taylor Greene, who similarly put out a tweet saying:

Everyone is finding out who are the real America First MAGA and who are fake and just said it bc it was popular. … Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA.

So Donald Trump is not the real America First MAGA. Only Marjorie Taylor Greene, an obscure congresswoman from Georgia until Donald Trump tapped her on the head, is the real America First MAGA.

By the way, who are the people who are slobbering for the U.S. to become “fully involved?”

No one has called for a ground invasion of Iran. No one has suggested that the United States ought to be fully involved in a gigantic takeover of Iran in regime rebuilding. No one is calling for that.

Even if you are calling for a single airstrike on Fordow, you know what that looks like? It looks like a single airstrike on Qasem Soleimani, which President Trump did in 2020 and was ripped by people like Tucker Carlson, who said that it was going to turn into a regional war.

Here’s my big question for folks like Tucker, when he suggests that there are these people who are calling Donald Trump and demanding he do things they want: Whom does he think is the decision-maker?

The decision maker in the White House is Donald J. Trump.

Donald Trump has taken the same position on the Iranian nuclear program since the first minute he came down the golden escalator. He has not changed one iota. 

What a low opinion Tucker Carlson must have of Donald Trump’s capacities. He thinks that he can manipulate him from the outside, or that others are manipulating him in that particular way.

President Trump fired back at all of this over the weekend. In an interview with The Atlantic, he responded to Carlson and others of his ilk, saying bluntly, “Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that. For those people who say they want peace—you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.” 

The same people who are attacking Trump have predicted that BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are going to get involved in this in some form or fashion.

President Trump is not one of those people because he’s not a stupid person.

Nothing has changed with Trump; he has been absolutely consistent on this issue.

As all the isolationists are horseshoeing around and having fun, happy times with all of their friends on the Left retweeting each other, you should take note of who these people are and what they actually believe about the President of the United States, about America First, and about MAGA.

Not to mention their complete acquiescence to the idea that a nuclear Iran would be fine for the world: an asinine notion rejected by anyone with half a brain.