'He told you not to trust him': GOP speechwriter chides gullible MAGA for believing lies

U.S. President Donald Trump attends the commencement ceremony at West Point Military Academy in West Point, New York, U.S., May 24, 2025.

Former George Bush Speechwriter David Frum took President Donald Trump voters to task for supporting a man they knew was an outrageous liar.

The shakedown began with MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace pointing out that Trump first got traction ion the 2016 Republican primary by blasting other Republicans who’d backed the costly invasion of Iraq.

“There were a lot of choices in 2016,” said Wallace. “The single reason Donald Trump won was because it wasn't just the country that had turned against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was the Republican Party. Those views against the wars in Iraq, in Iraq and Afghanistan have not softened. They have hardened. They also launched the political identities and careers of JD Vance and [Defense Secretary] Pete Hegseth.”

“Well, if you are fool enough in 2016 to believe a word Donald Trump said, that's a you problem. That’s not a him problem,” snapped Frum. “The one thing [Trump’s] always been very upfront about is that you cannot trust him. He would end his rallies by reading the snake parable. You knew I was a snake when you took me in. Yeah. He told you so.”

Frum then ticked down a long list of Trump’s continued excursions into the Middle East, despite selling himself as an isolationist.

“Donald Trump, in his first term, fought an extended war in Iraq and Syria against ISIS. He inherited that war from president Obama, but Donald trump continued it,” said Frum. “He continued the war in Afghanistan, which he did not stop. He dropped larger ordnance in Afghanistan than his predecessors had done. He fought an undeclared war with Iran. He killed Qassem Soleimani in 2020, the commander of the QUDS force. Maybe a good move … but not the act of an isolationist.”

“That [claim of isolationism] was all blather,” Frum said. “And if you were fool enough to believe it, the joke's on you. He told you not to trust him.”

Frum added, however, that Trump’s new war with Iran will not come cheap, and eventually the president will have to crawl to Congress with his hand out to continue paying for it.

“As has been said, this war is supposed to be costing $1 billion a day. … [S]ooner or later, regardless of whether Donald Trump asked for Congress's permission in advance, he's going to have to come back to Congress for a supplemental appropriation,” said Frum. “… that request is coming probably in a few weeks [and] … the Republicans are not united in favor of it. So, maybe he can get it through the Senate with all Republican votes. But in the House, he's going to need Democratic votes to pass it.”

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