Once ‘Ultra-MAGA’, Trump supporters fume about Iran on Truth Social

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WASHINGTON – The people logging into Truth Social each day tend to count themselves among the most ardent supporters of US President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement. In recent weeks, though, even some in the echo chamber have turned against his actions in Iran.

Thousands of users on the social media platform, which Mr Trump created in 2022, have responded to the President’s drumbeat of posts with a mix of frustration, disbelief and outrage.

They have written that they feel betrayed by the expanding war in Iran and ashamed when Mr Trump used an expletive on Easter to make demands of the Iranian government. Some were so perplexed by his military interventions that one declared they “make zero sense”.

The responses on Truth Social – numbering in the tens of thousands – offer a snapshot of a simmering criticism from the right that has intensified in recent weeks over Mr Trump’s decision to go to war in Iran.

While polling suggests that Republicans still broadly support the war, unease and anger are bubbling up on Mr Trump’s own platform.

Mr Trump’s approach to the war, which has disrupted oil shipments from the Persian Gulf and

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