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Deadline: White House

“A betrayal of the base”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Msnbc, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Versant, Washington Dc, Government

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace covers how the latest attack within Iran is yet another betrayal of the MAGA base, who wants America to be put first. Back before the 2024 election, Stephen Miller, now Homeland Security Advisor to Trump, called Kamala Harris’ campaign “war-mongering neocons [who] love sending your kids to die for wars they would never fight themselves.” Fast forward to 2026 under a second Trump presidency, the United States has upended Venezuela’s regime, conducted air strikes in the Caribbean, and struck Iran, killing its Supreme Leader, all of which puts the U.S. military at risk.

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0:00.0

Our current strategy of nation building and regime change is a proven absolute failure.

0:12.6

We have created the vacuums that allow terrorism to grow and thrive.

0:17.5

These globalists want to squander all of America's strength, blood, and treasure,

0:23.8

chasing monsters and phantoms overseas while keeping us distracted from the havoc they're creating

0:31.3

right here at home.

0:34.9

Hi again, everybody. It's 5 o'clock in New York. That was then this afternoon with all the force of a rock-splitting crack of lightning, Donald Trump's rank betrayal of more than a decade of foreign policy promises is cleaving a first-of-its-kind fissure inside the MAGA movement. Not that his supporters are strangers to betrayal by any means, he's broken his word

0:55.4

with them and to them before, and he'll undoubtedly do it again, but the military action Donald

1:01.1

Trump took in the early hours Saturday morning in Iran, the war he started, is a sort of reversal

1:07.0

fundamentally different on an atomic level than anything we've seen him do since he's been

1:12.7

in our politics over the last 10 years. The best way to fully understand the depth and scope of

1:17.7

that betrayal today might be to hold our noses and submerge ourselves and then out broken promises

1:23.3

of Donald Trump's no new wars mantra. It starts with his 2016 campaign for president.

1:29.8

You can't fight two wars at one time.

1:32.3

If you listen to him and you listen to some of the folks

1:34.9

that I've been listening to,

1:36.3

that's why we've been in the Middle East for 15 years

1:38.5

and we haven't won anything.

1:40.6

We've spent $5 trillion in the Middle East

1:43.1

because of thinking like that. In a Trump administration,5 trillion in the Middle East because of thinking like that.

1:45.2

In the Trump administration, our actions in the Middle East will be tempered by realism.

1:51.4

The current strategy of toppling regimes with no plan for what to do the day after

1:57.7

only produces power vacuums that are filled simply by terrorists.

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