President Donald Trump returns to the White House, after Israel and the U.S. launched strikes on Iran, in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
President Donald Trump is refusing to accept that the US military shot a Tomahawk missile that killed more than 160 people at an Iranian elementary school, many of them children — and a former Republican congressman who once backed Trump says the president is not a real man for doing so.
“The other thing we should agree on is that the President of the United States shouldn't lie about s—— like this,” Walsh said in an episode of his Substack released on Tuesday. “The President of the United States shouldn't lie about dead school children. The President of the United States ought to man up.”
Walsh then issued a challenge to his former “MAGA brothers,” arguing that “this is the f——ing opposite of what a man does. Donald Trump's a p——. Donald Trump is a w----. He's a coward, right? Never ever accepts responsibility for anything he does. That is the opposite of a real man. Trump ain't a real man. He's the antithesis of a real man.”
Describing the “hundreds of dead school children,” Walsh urged Trump supporters to “have the b----” and “man up and condemn this lie,” even if they otherwise support Trump’s policies.
“Every American should be ashamed,” Walsh said. “No matter where you stand on this war, you should be ashamed.”
This is not the first time that Walsh has challenged the masculinity of Trump supporters. In February, responding to reports of ICE and other immigration authorities violating civil liberties, Walsh characterized those individuals as “thugs.”
“What these heavily armed masked thugs lawlessly roaming our streets are doing is the utter opposite of law enforcement,” Walsh argued. “And there's a reason, by the way — I talk to cops regularly — most cops in this country detest what ICE is doing.”
When the agents justified wearing masks to conceal their identities on the grounds that they were scared of public reprisals, Walsh ridiculed their fear with sarcasm.
“Can you believe it?” Walsh said, facetiously pretending to be a person bristling at an unreasonable order. “They want judicial warrants! The American people are demanding that ICE have and use judicial warrants if they want to enter a home or a private business, you know, those pesky judicial warrants! That pesky Constitution!”
Walsh has also accused Trump supporters of engaging in cult-like behavior, such as when he warned about the impending build-up to a war with Iran in February and denounced anti-war Trump supporters for abiding by it.
“I thought you wanted him to end wars all over the world,” Walsh argued. “You said you wanted him to end American entanglement in conflicts and wars around the world. America shouldn’t be involved in these wars, you said. That’s why you’re voting for Trump, you said.” Yet despite Trump’s actions against Denmark, Venezuela and Iran, these voters still support him.
“And you don’t like when people call you a cult, Trump voters?” Walsh argued. “What else are people to think when you voted for Trump to get us the hell out of wars around the world, and instead he gets us involved in wars around the world and starts new wars, and you still sing his praises and support him? What are we to think, MAGA, but that you are a cult?”
Earlier in March, Walsh also adamantly insisted that Trump is behind the ongoing cover up of evidence related to his close friend, the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. One Epstein victim accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when was a 13-year-old girl in the 1980s.
“I want to say that again to every American, most especially every one of my MAGA brothers and sisters listening to me: Donald Trump initiated the cover-up of the Epstein files,” Walsh declared. “He's the boss. He ordered Bondi, Patel, all of them. Keep my name hidden. Keep the names of all the other predators hidden.”