Protests erupt calling for Trump, U.S. to stay out of war in Middle East

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Source: USA Today

Updated June 22, 2025, 5:07 p.m. ET


WASHINGTON — Protests against the U.S. military involvement in Iran, including some in New York and outside the White House June 22, are expected to continue throughout the week in communities across the country. The protests come on the heels of President Donald Trump ordering attacks on three nuclear facilities in Iran. Demonstrations were underway Sunday, June 22 in Washington, D.C., New York and Boston, according to social media posts.

“The people of the United States don’t want another forever war. The people of the United States want money for people’s needs!’’ the Party for Socialism and Liberation posted on X. The protests, some organized in part by ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, an anti-war group, call for Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the war on Iran.

ANSWER is a left-wing group that has organized protests against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other U.S. military actions, including some that have drawn hundreds of thousands of participants. Earlier this year, the organization was part of a coalition of groups across the country protesting in the days after Trump’s inauguration.

Other protests are planned in the coming week, including a national ‘‘Stop the War on Iran’’ march slated for June 28 in Washington, D.C. Others protested across the globe, including in Japan and Iran.

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Protests erupt calling for Trump, U.S. to say out of war in Middle East

Updated June 22, 2025, 4:20 p.m. ET


WASHINGTON — Protests against the U.S. military involvement in Iran, including some in New York and outside the White House June 22, are expected to continue throughout the week in communities across the country. The protests come on the heels of President Donald Trump ordering attacks on three nuclear facilities in Iran. Demonstrations were underway Sunday, June 22 in Washington, D.C., New York and Boston, according to social media posts.

“The people of the United States don’t want another forever war. The people of the United States want money for people’s needs!’’ the Party for Socialism and Liberation posted on X. The protests, some organized in part by ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, an anti-war group, call for Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the war on Iran.

ANSWER is a left-wing group that has organized protests against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other U.S. military actions, including some that have drawn hundreds of thousands of participants. Earlier this year, the organization was part of a coalition of groups across the country protesting in the days after Trump’s inauguration.

Other protests are planned in the coming week, including a national ‘‘Stop the War on Iran’’ march slated for June 28 in Washington, D.C. Others protested across the globe, including in Japan and Iran.

[Mosby]

1. Is isolationism the goal?

While Trump is in office?

I can understand why people think that way, but it's short sighted.

[Justice Brandeis]

2. No.

Who said it was?

[Mosby]

3. Pretty much every poll on the topic

Shows that Americans are becoming more isolationist, especially Liberals.

[Gosmudgeyourself]

6. You are being unbelievably sarcastic, right?!

It most absolutely is NOT liberals who are driving the isolationist train off the cliff. Who is it making instant ugly against Canada, Greenland, burying a zillion hatchets in Zelenskyy’s ie the Ukraine people’s backs in front of the entire world, WHO was that?? Sure as hell wasn’t President Biden, or ANY democrat/liberal that I can recall. Name them, go ahead and name them, provide direct quotes/evidence to back that up.

[BidenRocks]

8. Don't shoot the messenger.

[Gosmudgeyourself]

14. Enough is enough

No comprende, seriously, the message being what?

[Jack Valentino]

18. Nobody is being shot here....

[Mosby]

13. Its changing

MAGA voters back Trump on Iran and reject isolationism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/22/maga-rejecting-isolationism-iran-china-polling/

Their initial data, collected by students conducting individual interviews, surprised Mutz: It found that American adults ages 18-30 tend to favor isolationist foreign policy, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum, when compared with Baby Boomers, aged 60+.

“At least for the last half of the 20th century, Americans 60 and older were more isolationist than younger adults,” says Mutz, the Samuel Stouffer Professor of Communication and Political Science and director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at Penn. “But now things have reversed. So what happened and why?”

The students noted that the version of isolationism for Americans 18-30 is not the typical “America First” worldview of the past, although they are more likely to think the U.S. should generally stay out of world affairs. Instead, their isolationism based on the idea that imposing American-style democratic values abroad is racist and arrogant. But it also stems from their seriously low levels of trust in the U.S. government, far lower than for older Americans. For example, younger people felt that America’s efforts to “help” other countries through foreign aid were more about its own self-interest than the well-being of foreigners.

“It’s the paternalistic, condescending sense that the U.S. knows what other countries need more than the countries themselves do—that the U.S. is arrogant in their assumptions about what it means to help,” says Mutz.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/asc-which-americans-are-most-isolationist-it-may-not-be-who-you-think

[Gosmudgeyourself]

16. It's not what they say, it's what they do

As Miss Maddow continues to say, watch what they do not what they say. The results on that polling are impressive, if only they were really real, as in following through on what they tell the pollsters. The reality, what they appear to actually be supporting is the direct opposite of the poll results.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. There is a split in the MAGat movement - in some cases, anti-neocon as part of their attempt at "populist" rhetoric

Trump’s military attack on Iran reveals split among Maga diehards

Saturday’s US strikes on Iran provoked conflicting reactions from isolationist Republicans who support Donald Trump’s “Make America great again” (Maga) movement, catching them – like many Democrats – between supporting efforts against nuclear proliferation and opposing American intervention in foreign conflicts.

(snip)

Days earlier, amid signs of a Maga rebellion against the administration’s increasingly hawkish stance on Iran, Bannon told an audience in Washington that bitterness over the invasion and occupation of Iraq was a driving force for Trump’s first presidential victory. “One of the core tenets is no forever wars,” Bannon said. Bannon, though, said “the Maga movement will back Trump” despite its opposition to military interventions.

But there are now signs that the Maga “America first” isolationist position may be more amenable to limited airstrikes. The administration has stressed that Saturday’s raids only targeted Iran’s nuclear enrichment and not manufacturing locations, population centers or economic assets, including the oil terminal at Karg island.

The far-right influencer Charlie Kirk had warned of a Maga divide over Iran, saying “Trump voters, especially young people, supported [him] because he was the first president in my lifetime to not start a new war.”

(snip)

They are generally obedient lemmings, and subject to death threats and kompromat, so most will go along with the sudden policy shift, but there will be some who won't (which is why there are those "never-Trumpers" out there), and they will lose supporters.

[C Moon]

15. It sure seems like trump is the one isolating us: with the tariffs, threatening to take Greenland, now this.

[Jack Valentino]

19. Liberals are the LEAST isolationist... It is conservatives who have opposed

assisting Ukraine to repel a Russian invasion....

"especially liberals"???

[Mosby]

23. Not the young ones.

And a great many leftists. You should spend a bit of time looking at other social media besides DU.

Maybe my focus is a little narrow, but when people go on about not providng any aid to Israel, closing US bases in the ME and Gulf, the US lacking moral standing or that its racist to promote western values, all that comes from liberals/progressives and leftists, not conservatives.

The isolationism on the right is different, people like Tucker don't want us to support Ukraine because he does what Putin wants not because he really believes in non-interventionism. You know neoconservatism, a profoundly interventionist ideology never really went away after the Iraq debacle, it went underground.

[Jack Valentino]

24. I'm OLD and agree that we should cut off military aid to Israel

and further, should question why Israel is allowed to possess atomic weapons,
when they are now ruled by a genocidal and despotic government who cannot be trusted...

and my social media is not limited to DU---
in fact I don't consider DU to be a part of "social media"...

You should "spend a bit of time" studying your own moral values", IMHO. I've seen a lot of social media.

[Mosby]

25. So you are a liberal non-interventionist.

Or do you just have special rules for Israel?

[Jack Valentino]

26. I'm not a "non-interventionist"---- except in THIS case...

do YOU have special rules just for Israel ??

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Modern "isolationalism"

is a tool of "nationalists" and "xenophobes" and liberals are neither.

In this case, it's the issue of feeding the MIC while literally gutting things like healthcare, education, and other programs needed domestically.

[BidenRocks]

10. Do not "Live Long And Prosper",

Now its live to work and serve the state.

[avebury]

11. We have way too many problems within the US

at this time that we need to focus on. I am far more concerned about ICE/CBP, destruction of the educational system, war on women, an Executive Branch that constantly violates the Constitution, and so on. If the people cannot take back the Federal Govt., the attack on Iran is just the beginning of what might be coming.

[Jack Valentino]

20. I think the attack on Iran by Trump was partly meant to be a distraction

from all the terrible things he and his congressional acolytes are trying to do to THIS country---

After his military parade was a dismal failure, he hoped for a "rah rah, rally 'round the flag moment"--
but he has sadly miscalculated that when at least half of his own cult was opposed to this attack...

[OMGWTF]

5. Deja vu all over again.

I remember when the entire fking world was protesting against the GeeDumbya/Cheney The Dick regime wanting to attack Iraq. Fat lot of good that did.

[Jack Valentino]

21. We couldn't stop the war---- but---

we did get a Democratic House and Senate out of it in 2006, and President Obama in 2008...

the only good things to come out of the Iraq war

[Blue Full Moon]

7. MAGA are isolationist which attacking Iran is not.

This thing with Iran is unwanted. It's just tRump trying to be the war president. He seems to be afraid now. We are so broke but yet there is money for this?

[SomedayKindaLove]

9. You don't say NO to a man like Moe Green

When he invites you to his War party.

I’m sure Trump hopes MAGA understands. It was just this once and America First will be back stronger than ever after a new coat of paint.

And Energy will pay for everything, so we are good there.

[Jack Valentino]

22. well, the op itself probably didn't cost very much in the grand scheme of things...

he seems to think we can bomb Iran once, and then "declare peace"! LOL

Trump has never been very strong on "thinking out the possible consequences" of his actions....

[OverBurn]

12. Trump doesn't follow ANY ideology, he just wants just power and money. He can never get enough.

As for as this war, he could care less about Israel or Iran, he either thinks somehow it will help him or make him look powerful. He's been looking pretty weak lately.

He'll say anything he thinks will help him at the time. He has no shame, so he'll say something different the next day or hour. His extreme narcissism gets him in trouble sometimes when he will not admit a mistake, ever. He follows the Repukes plans cause it's helped him. He could care less about the GOP agenda.