\n\u201cI think that a foreign country has occupied our government, and we are seeing now that this president of the United States of America is being influenced by a foreign government,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd MAGA, let me tell you right now, MAGA is dead. It is deader than dead, and Americans are furious. We don\u2019t recognize President Donald J. Trump anymore,\u201d she added, calling Trump a \u201cdear friend\u201d she no longer recognizes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Her comments come amid a growing fracture inside the Republican coalition following U.S.-Israel joint strikes on Iran on Feb. 28\u2014an operation that has reignited debate over what \u201cAmerica First\u201d actually means in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prejean Boller herself was recently ousted from the Religious Liberty Commission after being accused of attempting to \u201chijack\u201d a hearing on antisemitism. Trump had appointed her to the role in May 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But she\u2019s far from alone in her criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, once one of Trump\u2019s fiercest allies, is also breaking ranks\u2014calling the strikes a betrayal of campaign promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cThe American people did not vote for this,\u201d Greene told CNN. \u201cI went to, I can\u2019t even tell you, countless rallies all over the country for President Trump\u2026 and we said on every single rally stage, \u2018No more foreign wars, no more regime change.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The internal rupture deepened further Tuesday when Joe Kent abruptly resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center\u2014the first Trump official to step down in protest over the Iran conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,\u201d Kent wrote on X. \u201cIran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The White House swiftly dismissed that claim. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the suggestion that Trump was influenced by Israel \u201cinsulting and laughable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the high-profile defections, early polling suggests the MAGA base hasn\u2019t moved nearly as much as its loudest critics. An NBC News survey found just 5% of self-identified MAGA Republicans opposed the initial strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prejean Boller isn\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cI talk to MAGA people all day long, every day, and the everyday, average American is absolutely against this war,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they know that the only reason why we are even in Iran right now is because of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n