Top Trump officials said their strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites were limited, but they don’t have much control over the knock-on effects in the Middle East and their party.

Donald Trump’s top national security officials spent much of Sunday insisting his administration doesn’t want to bring about the end of Iran’s government, only its nuclear program. Then Trump left the door open for exactly that.

“It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

While Trump did not call for the ouster of the regime, or say that the U.S. would play any role in overthrowing the Iranian government, his words undercut what had appeared to be a coordinated message from his top advisers. JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth each insisted Sunday that the U.S. was only interested in dismantling Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

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    6 hours ago

    I wonder where they are getting it. Even scrolling through truth social I haven’t seen anything. They are so on message all the time it’s crazy

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      I don’t even know. Like my dad isn’t tech savvy. But yet he still has a lot of these pipelines. I think it’s just Fox News and some random news sources. For at least a year though, every time I see him he’s asking he something I’m not even aware of and within a week or two I start to see it spread in my feeds.

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        4 hours ago

        Super interesting. I wonder if you could ask him where he is leaning this stuff because you wanna learn or something.