Trump's new slogan riling supporters

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Donald Trump Losing Supporters As Brand New Slogan Appears To Replace MAGA And Sparks Meltdown Across His Loyal Base - Signs post with 'MIGA' (Make Iran Great Again)


https://time.com/7382697/trump-iran-war/

A Truth Social post from President Donald Trump demanding Iran's 'unconditional surrender' has triggered a fresh wave of anger from parts of his own MAGA base—with some supporters accusing him of abandoning the core principles behind the movement after the post appeared to introduce a rival slogan.

Trump posted the message on 6 March 2026, one week into active US and Israeli military operations against Iran. In it, he wrote that there would be 'no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender' and said that following a surrender and the selection of new leadership, the United States and its allies would 'work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.' He signed off the post with the phrase 'Make Iran Great Again (MIGA!)'—a line that immediately drew comparisons to the MAGA slogan that has defined his political brand for nearly a decade, and which critics within his own base said appeared to signal a fundamental shift in direction.

For some longtime followers, the phrase 'Make Iran Great Again' has been deeply difficult to reconcile with the platform they originally backed. Trump's political brand was built in significant part on opposition to overseas nation-building and foreign intervention — themes that resonated strongly with voters who embraced the America First message. The suggestion that the United States would now commit to rebuilding Iran led some supporters to openly question whether that position had been abandoned entirely. Online, many circulated archived posts in which Trump had previously criticised foreign intervention, repeatedly asking: 'Where is this guy now?'

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-new-slogan-backlash-maga-supporters-1783883

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[JohnnyRingo]

2. "America First"

"First in war, first in P̶e̶a̶c̶e̶ War, and first in the He̶a̶r̶t̶s̶ War of his countrymen"

[Exp]

3. Megyn Kelly has a nice, handsome, manly face, don't you think? Someone should tell her. nt

[Ol Janx Spirit]

4. If it were actually possible, he could learn a thing or two from Iranian history....

While he could learn a lot about what it means to command a great empire from Cyrus the Great, it is a story surrounding one of Cyrus' rivals--Croesus, the king of Lydia--that feels very Turnipian to me:

The ascendancy of Cyrus troubled Croesus, the king of Lydia, which occupied the western half of present-day Turkey. As he contemplated an attack on the rising power of now-neighboring Persia, Croesus dispatched a messenger to consult the Greek Oracle at Delphi. “If Croesus goes to war, he will destroy a great empire,” the medium to the gods was said to have reported.

Buoyed by the divine message, Croesus led a huge army across the Halys River and attacked the Persians in 547 B.C. After an indecisive battle, Cyrus surprised the retreating Lydian forces by following them through the wintertime cold toward the capital of Sardis.

With his Persian forces outnumbered in the decisive Battle of Thymbra, Harpagus, the defecting Median general, mounted cavalrymen on the army’s baggage camels and placed them at the front of the battle line. The stench of the camels so repelled the charging Lydian horses that they bolted from the battlefield. Retreating inside the walls of Sardis, the Lydians eventually surrendered after a Persian siege.

The oracle’s words to Croesus had proven true. An empire had been destroyed—but it was his.
https://www.history.com/articles/cyrus-the-great-persian-empire-iran

Yeah, I think we are in Croesus territory here....

[AZ8theist]

8. HAHAHAHA!! That's hysterical!!

"He could learn a thing or two from Iranian history"

Trump??!??
Learn??!??

You have to be joking!

[Ol Janx Spirit]

9. You'll notice that I did start my post with "If it were actually possible"....

[AZ8theist]

12. Yes. Idid notice that!

But that possibility for him is about as real as pigs flight.
I wasn't mocking you, just making light of "Trump" and "learning " in the same universe.

[William Seger]

5. "core principles behind the movement" are racism and knee-jerk antiliberalism

... a continuation of the backlash to the civil rights, women's and gay rights that started with Reagan. Nope, #rump hasn't abandoned those core principles -- the rest is whatever he thinks will "sell" to any particular audience at any particular time.

[markodochartaigh]

6. "Core principles", and of course the corruption which goes with authoritarianism.

And, since authoritarian followers are filled with indoctrination instead of information and education, it is unsurprising that they do not understand what is actually happening or how we got here. So it is easy for them to brush off the consequences of the policies for which they advocated so enthusiastically. "Who could have predicted that!" This produces cognitive dissonance. They can still support the politician, maybe even the policies, in the face of disastrous outcomes of those policies.

[multigraincracker]

7. Our ruthless leader has released the dogs of war.

To quantify, first he must withstand the attack of a single German shepherd.

And the command was given. Retreat.

[Totally Tunsie]

10. Coming soon:

"Make Measles Great Again"

[mdbl]

11. MAGA, MIGA what's the difference they are both looney.

And stupid - just like all the Dump supporters.