Jon Lovett

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Trump's war is already quite unpopular with most Americans and a portion of his base, including a range of high-profile right-wing media stars.

Nick Fuentes and Alex Jones had a conversation where they called the war a, quote, utter and complete betrayal and said that MAGA is dead.

Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly have been very critical.

Even Laura Ingraham has been urging the administration to address the strike on the Iranian girls' school.

But the Republican who apparently has Trump's ear on Iran is one of the party's biggest warmongers, Lindsey Graham, who's been taking something of a victory lap in the press.

Graham bragged to the Wall Street Journal that he got briefings from Israeli intelligence to help him make the case for war to Trump and that he coached Netanyahu on how to persuade Trump to go to war.

Over the weekend, Graham unleashed his war boner on Maria Bartiromo's show.

Let's listen.

Which is funny because not as tight.

And then we're going to win this war.

He also at some point says Iran's down, Cuba's next.

He had some kind of a hat on.

He said that Trump is Reagan plus and we're going to march across the world.

Getting rid of all the bad guys.

Get rid of all the bad guys.

Unleash a glorious new future.

But how does Donald Trump care more about what Lindsey Graham and Bibi Netanyahu tell him than all these MAGA influencers who he knows are closer to his voters?

The way Lindsey Graham described his conversations with Trump are exactly what I thought they would be, which is.

It's an appeal to ego.