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8. There are real dfferences over the "ending wars" rhetoric.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:25 PM
Jun 25
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-israel-maga-republicans-truth-2d240dc778494948d1b6d15977bec6d4

During his campaigns for president, Donald Trump spoke of the need to stop engaging in “endless” or “forever wars,” and said removing “warmongers and America-last globalists” was among his second-term foreign policy priorities.

Trump’s move to strike Iranian nuclear sites risks embroiling the United States in the sort of conflict he once derided. Like other recent American presidents, Trump said he would not permit Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. In recent months, he had held out hope that diplomacy could avoid the strike he announced Saturday.

Trump’s consideration of military action had opened a schism among his “Make American Great Again” movement and drew criticism from some of its most high-profile members.

Here’s a look at some of Trump’s rhetoric before his announcement Saturday about the strikes:


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