President Donald Trump‘s evolving position on Iran is fueling a political clash between Republican national security hawks rallying behind Israel and a MAGA-aligned base deeply skeptical of U.S. involvement in another Middle Eastern war.

The U.S. president faces pushback over the risk of U.S. involvement in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.

President Donald Trump has lashed out at former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, suggesting the conservative pundit is irrelevant now that he’s lost his television show. Days after Carlson accused the president of being “complicit” in the Israel-Iran conflict and suggested he had betrayed his MAGA base, Trump fired back with a stinging rebuke.