White House turns on MAGA allies as Iran deal sparks conservative revolt

The Trump White House is lashing out at some of its most reliable allies as a bitter civil war erupts on the right over the administration’s controversial Iran agreement.Conservative commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon became the latest target Friday after she blasted the deal as an “utter humiliation” for the US and accused Vice President JD Vance of unfairly attacking Israel while defending Tehran.Within hours the official White House rapid-response account on X unloaded on the conservative pundit in a pair of scathing posts.“The only humiliation here is Batya desperately begging for an additional brain cell because her failing TV show is even more irrelevant than the likes of Kaitlan Collins and Fake Tapper,” the account, Rapid Response 47, wrote.Collins, CNN’s chief White House correspondent and the host of a primetime show, has been a frequent target of Trump, as has Jake Tapper, the host of the network’s daily political wrap-up show “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”The White House-linked account also mocked conservative writer David Reaboi, dismissing him as a “complete nobody” whose “dim-witted ravings” nobody wanted to read.The post was a response to Reaboi accusing Vance of suffering from “brainrot” that made him “morph into a more articulate Theo Von” — a reference to the popular podcaster who has been critical of Israel.The attacks stood out because both Ungar-Sargon and Reaboi have spent years operating within the broader Trump-aligned political ecosystem.Ungar-Sargon, a former Newsweek opinion editor and current NewsNation host who describes herself as a “MAGA leftist,” has become one of Trump’s most visible media defenders in recent years.She argued in a widely discussed 2024 essay that Trump was the “inheritor” of the American Jewish and labor tradition and has frequently championed his populist economic agenda.Reaboi, a national-security commentator, has long been associated with the America First movement and cons...