Mark Caputo

Then it becomes, why are we blowing this stuff up overseas?

Why do we have to find 50 billion new dollars to fund on missiles and ordnance when we're not doing it for our own people?

You know, the kind of common America first questions and statements you hear made by especially conservatives.

who oppose the idea of foreign aid and in some cases, foreign wars, wars of choice.

I just don't see that real MAGA civil war happening beyond the elite level.

That's not to say it doesn't spread, but that's sort of where it's contained for the moment.

But overall, polling is terrible and it's not going to get any better for a little while as long as the fuel prices are doing what they're doing and the images that we're seeing

remain on social media and specifically like burning oil and flames and smoke.

Trump himself or the Trump White House had expressed a measure of discomfort to Israel for its bombing the Iranian.

Yeah, correct.

Because

Donald Trump is an imperialist.

I don't, you know, the United States and certainly the Republican Party has been accused of being a colonial and imperialist power for a while.

Donald Trump has sort of not really cared about that criticism and has been rather imperial in the way in which he's executed his foreign policy.

And one of the things he's always said, going back to the...

He believes that we should get some of their oil if we go in.

And so he's looking at oil going up in flames and thinking, you know, that should be our oil or oil for the market.

And what people are seeing is this stuff that's been lit on fire and now their fuel prices are higher and that's bad.

And so that's sort of sort of the tension that exists currently within Trump's own mind to the degree that it is or within the Trump White House about the execution of the war.

Sort of the first disagreement we've seen with the way in which the Israelis have prosecuted it.