President Trump’s cruise missile strike on Syria, responding to Assad’s chemical weapons atrocity, is getting good reviews from much of the world. After all, Barack Obama did nothing when Assad did this before, a display of American weakness that may have encouraged Assad and other bad actors that they could act with impunity.
Russia, though, is Syria’s staunch ally, and Vladimir Putin is furious with Trump. (If the Russians put him in office, as some are charging, they didn’t get much for their trouble. As one commenter here put it, why would Putin want Trump in office, when the Democrats were letting him take over any country he wanted? [There is an answer to that: Putin needs the economic sanctions lifted.])
But closer to home, many of Trump’s most devoted fans are turning against him. Attacking Syria, they say, is an idealistic foreign involvement like neo-conservatives always want to do. They thought Trump was different.
Even Ann Coulter, author of In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!, is now bad-mouthing him.
Are any of you Trump supporters now, in the words of one former fan, “officially off the Trump train”? Are any of you doubters now thinking that he might become a good president?
From Elise Labott and Nicole Gaouette, After Syria strike, populist supporters abandon Trump at home and abroad – CNNPolitics.com:
While much of the world is applauding President Donald Trump’s decision to strike a Syrian airbase in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack against civilians, right-wing populist supporters at home and abroad are criticizing the move and distancing themselves from him. . . .
Trump’s alt-right populist supporters in the US also condemned the missile attack. “I guess Trump wasn’t ‘Putin’s puppet’ after all, he was just another deep state/Neo-Con puppet. I’m officially OFF the Trump train,” Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson said.
“It’s been fun lads, but the fun is over,” he said in a post on Twitter. “I will be focusing my efforts on Le Pen, who tried to warn Trump against this disaster.”
Right-wing commentator Ann Coulter, who campaigned for Trump, wrote on Twitter: “Those who wanted us meddling in the Middle East voted for other candidates.”
“Trump campaigned on not getting involved in Mideast,” she wrote. “Said it always helps our enemies & creates more refugees. Then he saw a picture on TV.”
And former Brietbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who recently resigned in disgrace over comments that appeared to defend pedophilia, wrote on Twitter, “There comes a day in every child’s life when his Daddy bitterly disappoints him.”
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President Trump’s cruise missile strike on Syria, responding to Assad’s chemical weapons atrocity, is getting good reviews from much of the world. After all, Barack Obama did nothing when Assad did this before, a display of American weakness that may have encouraged Assad and other bad actors that they could act with impunity.
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