Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump touted that he was “the only president in generations who didn’t start a war” and pointed to the need to avoid engaging in “never-ending wars” -- a pledge that some non-interventionist Republican leaders have now accused him of betraying. Ultimately, Trump’s supporters in the last election defaulted to trusting the president to do what was best for the country, with many pointing to the fact that he has access to national security intelligence that most Americans are not privy to. Before the strikes, Barron, the Georgia voter, told ABC News that the Trump administration had been “horrible on the foreign side” in the early months of the president’s second term, and described Trump’s demands for Iran to surrender last week as “warmongering.”
Author: Rachael Dziaba
Published at: 2025-06-23 22:50:00
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