Posted on 11/16/2025 2:08:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump was unapologetic about putting America first. He promised to secure the nation’s borders, strengthen the domestic workforce and be tough on countries he thought were taking advantage of the United States.
Now, 10 months into his second term, the president is facing backlash from some conservatives who say he is too focused on matters abroad, whether it’s seeking regime change in Venezuela, brokering peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza or extending a $20-billion currency swap for Argentina. The criticism has grown in recent days after Trump expressed support for granting more visas to foreign students and skilled immigrant workers.
The cracks in the MAGA movement, which have been more pronounced in recent weeks, underscore how Trump's once impenetrable political base is wavering as the president appears to embrace a more global approach to governing.
"I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally," Trump said this week when asked to address the criticism at an Oval Office event. "We could have a world that's on fire where wars come to our shores very easily if you had a bad president."
For backers of Trump's MAGA movement, the conflict is forcing some to weigh loyalty to an "America first" ideology over a president they have long supported and who, in some cases, inspired them to get involved in the political process.
"I am against foreign aid, foreign wars, and sending a single dollar to foreign countries," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who in recent weeks has become more critical of Trump's policies, said in a social media post Wednesday. "I am America First and America Only. This is my way and there is..."
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He does?
He’s extricating us from everyone’s wars and from pretending we are the world’s police.
Then why am I suddenly hearing about us getting involved in Venezuela?
The currency swap seems like it worked out well for both countries.
I hope we don’t invade venzuala but I kind of doubt it’s going to happen.
He could do a much better job extricating us from Ukraine. It would be easy. But we seem incapable of walking away.
As they try to cram a prybar into imaginary cracks in the MAGA coalition, has AOL News and their Democrat friends really forgotten about DOGE ?
Announce that we won’t be providing any more weapons or aid to Ukraine. Just tell people that we will do nothing. Then, do nothing.
“Then why am I suddenly hearing about us getting involved in Venezuela?”
You believe they started shipping drugs to us only in the past 10 months since Trump got in
Trump is stopping what has been going on.
Do you prefer they continue bringing drugs here?
Do you believe Trump is doing this as a military industrial complex thing like every president before him? Or do you think he has an end and a victory in sight
President of the world...
Thanks for the bait and switch Don.
“He could do a much better job extricating us from Ukraine. It would be easy. But we seem incapable of walking away.”
How exactly?
Do nothing. Send nothing. Do not join talks. Just walk away.
“ Announce that we won’t be providing any more weapons or aid to Ukraine. Just tell people that we will do nothing. Then, do nothing.”
Trump already made it clear he would not be broadcasting his military plans
If you don’t want to trust Trump, fine. Don’t
I have every reason to trust him
He’s been in office 10 months.
Venezuela isn’t about drugs. That’s the story for simpletons.
It’s a regime change operation so we can get control of their oil and gas, and stop their interactions with China, Iran and Russia.
If it was about drugs, you would have seen several banks and businesses in America seized, and sanctions against some offshore banks.
“Do you believe Trump is doing this as a military industrial complex thing like every president before him?”
Yes, and also the oil industry and bankers who want in.
The fact that he is ridding us of illegal immigrants should be enough to keep from tearing him down. Who else would even try? All the horrible things done to him means nothing to people who expect so much.
So now, all of the sudden, the left is championing isolationism.
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