Fox News host Laura Ingraham has questioned whether President Donald Trump was “fully briefed about the risks” of the Iran war, as more of his once-loyal allies express discontent over the conflict. Ingraham, a longtime Trump supporter who has interviewed him multiple times since he returned to office and was appointed to the Kennedy Center’s board last year, raised the issue on Monday’s episode of The Ingraham Angle.
“Was the president fully briefed about the risks of all of this from the beginning?” Ingraham asked. “And was he then able to take it all in and understand the complexity of this, how complex it could actually get and further possibilities of casualties or other damage, the difficulty of dealing with these people? Or was he told this would be relatively quick in and out?”
Her comments come amid a CNN report that the risks of the war spiralling out of control were “downplayed” to Trump by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. Ingraham also noted that it “looks like the U.S. is going to escalate,” referencing Trump’s recent threats to obliterate Iranian infrastructure if Tehran does not agree to a deal.
Ingraham is the latest MAGA figure to show unease over the war. Politico reported mounting frustration among younger, more right-wing White House staffers, with one source describing “constantly contradictory messaging from the president himself” as “brutal.” Republican lawmakers, including Representative Nancy Mace, have also voiced opposition to a potential ground operation in Iran, with Mace stating she “will not support troops on the ground in Iran.”
