President Trump used to say, “In the end, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you — and I'm just standing in their way," With the endorsement of Lindsey Graham President Trump just stepped aside.

When President Trump departed Washington on January 20, 2021, the GOP and the Dems rejoiced. No one in Washington was sorry to see Donald J. Trump leave the capital and they didn’t expect him to return. Not since Joe McCarty’s days was a departure, from DC, of a political figure so universally embraced. Much to the surprise of almost everyone, when Trump arrived in Miami, there was a great outpouring of America First supporters along the route from the airport to Mar-a-Lago. This was a sign of things to come.

During the four years of former Vice President Biden’s occupation of the White House, President Trump recognized the movement to be the core of his base. Trump made a lot of promises to his base. Trump’s base was not disappointed with the speed and magnitude of the 47th administration on nearly all fronts.

But as time passed, the DOJ of the 47th administration began to look similar to the DOJ of the 45th administration. It’s now clear that there has not been a real difference between Jeff Sessions or William Barr and Pam Bondi as it relates to holding the Deep State accountable. Trump’s base expected action from the DOJ. What they got was the FBI openly trying to cover-up the Epstein files and Epstein’s death. Trump’s directive to the base was to get over it; there was nothing to see. This along with the alleged statement that Trump had friends that would be hurt if all the files were released started the discourse about transparency and accountability as it related to Epstein. President Trump clearly did not understand the importance of the Epstein issue to his base. As a result, the roll out was as bad as it could be. When Patriots questioned, President Trump started attacking America First Patriots who didn’t conform to his definition of MAGA.

During the lead up to the 2024 elections, President Trump repeatedly vowed to end the conflicts in Ukraine and in Gaza. He claimed he could resolve them in days and insisted that if he were in office, those wars would never have occurred. His repeated pronouncements secured firmly the posture of peacemaker and a worthy candidate for the Nobel Peace prize at least among his base. The “Too Big to Rig” voters of 2024 cast their ballots for a leader promising peace, rather than a continued cycle of endless war favored by neocon hawks of the Republican Party and their allies in the Democrat Party.

Many America First Patriots see President Trump as allowing the Israel to drag the US into yet another Middle East war thus promoting Netanyahu’s Greater Israel concept. The problem is, this war has the potential to take down the American economy and thus permit the Globalist reset.

Reports of the extremely close personal connection with Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Netanyahu go back to the 1990’s when Netanyahu would stay at the Kushner family home in New Jersey. America First Patriots question Jared Kushner’s loyalty, suggesting it is not America First, but making Zionist Israel first.

Is this the Grand Finale Trump envisions, distancing himself from the grassroots movement that created his political rise to align with the existing partisan establishment? His harsh criticisms of some of his staunchest supporters propose this possibility. Surrendering the MAGA movement to the Republican Party will herald its decline, echoing the fate of the Tea Party in 2014. The endorsement of Lindsey Graham over Mark Lynch underscores this narrative and suggests a troubling trajectory for the future.

Notably, there has been history of Republican candidates using the populist movement to promote their political advancement. During the Tea Party era, figures such as, Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott used grassroots support to ascend to power in Florida. However, once in office, all three aligned themselves with the GOP establishment, distancing themselves from the very populist backing that had initially propelled their campaigns.

Donald J. Trump arguably required a grassroots movement more than anyone else due to his New York City connections with Democrats and the limited support from within the GOP. As an outsider, he leaned heavily on the guidance of his early supporter and promoter Roger Stone, a GOP political operative “extraordinaire”. With the evolution of the Tea Party to America First, Trump was fortunate to step into a leadership role within an established movement, utilizing the successful rally model of the Tea Party days, complete with Lee Greenwood, to effectively promote his campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hundreds of times across the country.

Now it seems that President Trump is backing away the from the movement that elected him three times and turning to the Neo-Cons, even some “Never Trumpsters”, of the Republican Party. The man who ran as a peacemaker and champion of what’s best for America has turned to the very people who have never seen a war they couldn’t profit from.On the heels of a 24 hour military victory in Venezuela, Globalists played on Trump’s vanity and inflated ego. They presented the President with intelligence from the Mossad and CIA that suggested an easy win in Iran with the Iranian people rising up and creating a pro-western government with the elimination of the Ayatollah Khamenei. In a brilliant maneuver a 47 year Islamic reign of terror would be eliminated which would immediately make Trump a “Superhero”. Of course this did not happen and the likeliness of failure was well understood by many within the America First movement.

Now Americans are stuck in another middle eastern quagmire. The President does not want to look weak. So the United States finds itself ensnared in a ever increasing cycle of escalation, largely influenced by external pressures rather than a coherent strategy from President Trump.

The Iranian population is comprised of 92 million sophisticated Persians who are prepared to engage in unconventional warfare, that contrasts with the conventional warfare experienced, by Americans, in the war with Iraq, with Arabs participating.

The escalation of tensions not only provides Iran with considerable advantages but also poses the risk of evolving into a prolonged quagmire that could have severe repercussions for the global economy, disrupt energy production, and threaten the GOP's prospects in the upcoming November elections. A loss of the House and potentially the Senate would render President Trump’s final two years in office exceedingly challenging...a nightmare.

America First vs MAGA Long before MAGA became a household slogan, a powerful movement took shape in the wake of Barack Obama's election: the Tea Party. Flourishing nationwide for about five years, it championed limited government, fiscal responsibility, and unwavering allegiance to the U.S. Constitution. By 2014, however, the Republican Party, with significant help from the mainstream media, effectively marginalized the Tea Party; yet, its members persisted, morphing into what is now recognized as the “America First” movement. It’s important to clarify, this movement is separate from the pre-World War II America First stance of 1941.

However, starting in November, 2025, the narrative quickly shifted into attacks against the most prominent America First individuals, intensified, notably by Trump’s mishandling of the Epstein files release.

MAGA supporters like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie faced vicious criticism, illustrating Trump’s intolerance for dissent within his MAGA ranks.

The absence of key allies such as Steve Bannon, General Michael Flynn, and Roger Stone from Trump’s inner circle further underscored divisions between MAGA and the broader America First movement. It became clear that many of the longstanding challenges from Trump’s 45th term—particularly the influence of Globalist Republican Neo-Cons occupying prominent positions—continued to disrupt the administration’s agenda. These entrenched interests threaten to undermine the very core of the “America First” movement to this day.