'Done with Trump': US president's online base fumes about Syria strikes

April 08, 2017 15:09

When news broke that US President Donald Trump was preparing to launch cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield, some of the most prominent critics of the move weren't the center-leftists who've knocked almost every decision he's made since taking office.

Rather, it was Trump's most vocal and controversial online supporters themselves, the far-right mediasphere that rallied behind his candidacy.

One account tweeted, "We don't want war in Syria!! Don't believe the #SyriaHoax, we need to focus on our own country right now. America First."

"I voted for you, my whole family voted for you," said Angelo John Gage, a Marine veteran who was once the chairman of the white nationalist National Youth Front. "We all busted our a--es to destroy the fake media news, and now you're falling for it." His video reaction to rumors of US military action in Syria was a direct address to Trump, and it went viral. Both WikiLeaks and Infowars reposted it.

Right-wing pseudo-journalist Chuck Johnson also took to Facebook to criticize American intervention in Syria.

"I will spend every minute of 2020 working to defeat Trump if we invade Syria," Johnson promised.

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