Donald Trump’s pledge to “stop wars” has been called into question after the US launched a military operation in Venezuela, capturing president Nicolás Maduro and his wife. The intervention has drawn a mixed response from the Make America Great Again (Maga) media, with most supporting the president but a few expressing reservations.
Conservative radio host Mark Levin and Fox News’s Sean Hannity have been among the strongest backers, celebrating the incursion and championing what they call “The Donroe Doctrine”—the idea that Trump’s America holds sway over the Western hemisphere. Ben Shapiro also praised the action, criticising the “so-called isolationist right” for opposing it.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, however, struck a more cautious note on his streaming show. While he said he was “grateful for the wisdom of not taking out the entire government”, he referenced the failures in Iraq and Libya, warning that “it can be very hard to put those things back together again”. He described the decision to keep the government structure in place but ensure it is “pro-American” as “a much wiser approach”.
Not all voices in the conservative media are on board. Megyn Kelly, formerly of Fox News, criticised the network’s coverage as “Russian propaganda”, lacking any scepticism. She argued that Trump’s actions were clearly about “global oil dominance” rather than law enforcement. Similarly, libertarian commentator Kat Timpf pointed out the inconsistency: “We go to a country, we capture their leader, we bomb it, and then we say, ‘We run this country now.’ And that is not war.”
