‘AMERICA FIRST’ PRETENDERS ARE SIDING WITH IRAN CHANT OF ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’

Something grotesque is happening on the American right.

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June 17, 2025

By Jeff Ballabon

Hijacking U.S. President Donald Trump’s popular slogans of “America First” and “MAGA,” a neo-isolationist grift—led by hucksters and haters and fraudsters and fools—is trying to convince Americans that real patriotism means abandoning America’s interests while America is under attack.

Trying to be clever and edgy, social media influencers such as Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes have been abusing “America First” to push the oldest antisemitic libel in the book (literally – bad guys have been making this claim since Genesis): Jews are disloyal warmongers.

But here’s the reality they’re desperate to ignore: America is already under attack. And right now, it is the Jews—Israel’s Jews— who are doing most of the fighting and dying for America.

Let’s stop pretending this is some ancillary foreign policy debate about whether or not or how much America should “help an ally.” This is an existential American moment, and Israel isn’t asking America to fight its war. Israel is fighting America’s war.

The Iranian regime swears “Death to America,” builds ICBMs that can strike Washington, and dispatches militias to kill American soldiers, and Israel stands in the breach. It is confronting the proxies. It is providing the intelligence. It is targeting the terror networks. It is sabotaging the nuclear program. And it is taking the hits.

The real America First—the one defined by Trump—is about protecting American lives, American sovereignty, and American civilization. It is about obliterating the threats to our existence before they reach our soil.

Trump’s message could not be clearer. On October 28, 2023, shortly after the unspeakably savage Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of Israel by Iran’s jihadi proxies, Trump declared:

“The United States and Israel represent the pinnacle of Western civilization, which is exactly what these people want to destroy. … The survival of Israel is not just a foreign policy issue. It’s a moral issue. It’s a civilization-defining issue.”

That is the moral clarity of the real America First. That is an articulation of American Greatness.

And it stands in total opposition to the poison peddled by Tucker and his ilk.

They say Iran isn’t our problem. They say Israel is the aggressor. They say American intervention is a mistake. And to justify their absurdity, they have been forced to go even further into a form of denial and depravity that recasts World War II as a Jewish manipulation, downplays Hitler’s evil and threat, portrays the Nazis as victims, and declares the Greatest Generation fools—or villains.

That’s not America First. That’s not American Greatness. It’s the “Squad,” Defund the Police, Hamas and the Ku Klux Klan in a MAGA hat.

It’s no coincidence that their “foreign policy” is indistinguishable from the “Globalize the Intifada” radical Left’s. From DSA to BLM to Tehran Tucker, the message is the same: weaken America; blame Jews.

This is not restraint. It is surrender. 

This is not realism. It is betrayal.

This is not even isolationism. It is suicide. It is treason.

Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Its agents and proxies have murdered hundreds of Americans. Its drones and missiles have struck U.S. bases and strategic assets. It has plotted multiple assassinations of American officials, including the president. And the weapons delivery systems it’s building now—the ones being pummeled by Israel, are designed not to reach Israel, but to reach America.

Israel has two goals in this war: destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities and topple Iran’s terrorist regime. Anyone who puts America First shares those goals.

If you want a glimpse at what is at stake if Iran gets nukes and the ability to deliver them to the continental United States, read “Grid Down: Death of a Nation“—the Congressional Task Force on National and Homeland Security report. Spoiler: It means total collapse of the American Republic. Here are a couple of nuggets:

• A nuclear EMP attack is an “existential threat that could kill 9 of 10 Americans through starvation, disease, and societal collapse.” 

• “With half the U.S. population dead from starvation, sickness and murder after six months—and 80 to 90 percent dead after the first year … our country would cease to exist in any realistic fashion shortly after losing the grid.”

• Societal collapse. Ninety percent of Americans dead.

  
  

  That’s not hysteria or science fiction. It’s the real-world consequence of allowing a megalomaniacal theocratic regime that funds terrorism and shouts “Death to America” to acquire the means to make good on its promise via nuclear weapons.

Even setting aside Iran’s nuclear ambitions, want to know the threat from the Iranian regime’s terror assets already here? There are an untold number (hundreds of thousands? millions? we don’t even know)—of jihadi sympathizers now operating inside the United States thanks to our broken borders and generations of anti-America political and religious indoctrination. 

This is exactly what Trump was elected to fix. Imagine the devastation of Oct. 7-style attacks across America, a country with a much vaster and more vulnerable population than Israel’s and far less prepared to respond. You think there aren’t multiple sleeper terror cells already in your state? You’re delusional.

Trump promised to Make America Great Again. That vision demands moral clarity, strategic strength and the courage to confront evil before it strikes. And it demands calling out traitors and fools, especially when they speak in our language and wrap themselves in our flag.

When the president said after Oct. 7, “We will stand with Israel… and we will restore American strength,” he wasn’t just stating policy. He was drawing a line between civilization and savagery.

“The United States and Israel represent the pinnacle of Western civilization, which is exactly what these people want to destroy,” he declared. Today, those words apply to every homegrown grifter and groyper who chooses to be a proxy for anti-American and anti-Israeli evil, whether they cosplay wearing a keffiyeh or a red baseball cap.

Tucker Carlson now claims that by standing with Israel, Trump is betraying his voters. Nothing could be further from the truth. True MAGA believers thank Trump and support him for his moral clarity. True America First patriots thank Israel and support her as she fights America’s war.

Pray that God continues to bless President Donald Trump, the United States of America and the people of Israel—and gives them the courage and strength to keep fighting until victory.