America First, Not Iran is the core argument of Natalie Winters’ WarRoom monologue, where she rejects the neocon push for war and foreign regime change.
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Aired on January 14, 2026. Transcript begins below and may contain minor errors.
America First Means No Iran War
NATALIE WINTERS (HOST): I want to start with that clip that we played. That is essentially the chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum predicting, I guess more than predicting, saying that there will be a U.S. led strike on the Iranian regime, giving some details. So I thought it was quite instrumental and important for us, the War Room, the real MAGA, OG MAGA, not a neocon MAGA, to come on here and say that there is absolutely nothing America First about us getting involved in Iran from a kinetic perspective.
Saying make Iran great again is globalist, and saying that making Iran great again is making America great again is a hoax. It is a lie.
And I know that the, I would say, most resounding and salient argument that you hear coming from even our side of the football that went to invade Iran, that seems like what the new goal line benchmark has become, is because, oh, well, they say death to America.
But here’s the fundamental point about the Trump administration and why President Trump won. There are a lot of people who say death to America. The only difference is that you don’t have to go overseas. You don’t have to go hundreds or thousands of miles away to hear that the loudest.
I would posit you just go right to Washington, D.C., and you call it what it is, the enemy within. And just remember how apoplectic and how the legacy media melted down when President Trump dared to use that term. Because it’s those people who really want death to America.
I mean, just look at their policies, whether it’s demographic change, the economic reality. There’s a hardship here that is intentional. They get off on destroying your life, right? That’s the sick, twisted way that our elites work.
And frankly, if you get to the heart of it, I think if we’ve learned anything from the last 20 years, from the last 40 years, it’s not that intervention is the cure. It’s actually the disease. And especially when we’re getting involved in so many countries at the same time.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party is busy conducting international affairs, global trade, through the lens of how can we actually benefit the Chinese people and the Chinese economy? How can we extract resources, how can we extract rare earths, critical minerals, defense treaties, bases, ports, not how can we spread transgenderism?
This whole color revolution idea, this whole concept of regime change that we’ve been pushing abroad, it’s very cheap talk, and frankly it’s a very low IQ justification as to why we need to get involved in trillion dollar costly invasions of every country abroad.
And, you know, I don’t know about you guys, but I voted for mass deportations and not mass regime change in every country except the United States. Frankly, I voted for regime change here in the United States.
And frankly, I think actually going after mass deportations with the level of commitment that we have seen us meddling in the foreign affairs of other countries is a much safer bet, not just because it’s what Americans actually voted for, but I actually think we would see better results if we threw one tenth of the resources that we’ve been putting into every other corner of the globe, historically and right now.
What if we told people, oh, instead of regime change, what we’re going to give you is we’re just going to focus on the criminals, not the whole regime, and we’re just going to focus on some of the economic crimes? Because that’s essentially what they’ve watered down mass deportations to, right, if you look at the numbers.
And I don’t know, I think the concept of America First is that you get our house in order, your house in order first before you start chasing demons in every other corner of the earth, let alone at the same time.
It’s quite interesting, right? This whole concept of a civil war. That’s apparently what we’re in, whether it’s over Israel, whether it’s over the deportation.
So I think that one, maybe the H 1B, maybe, I don’t know, Vivek thinks he won, but considering he got off Twitter, I think maybe we won that one.
But, you know, I would just humbly say to the Mark Levins, the Ben Shapiros, the neocon know it alls of the world, don’t flatter yourself. It’s not a civil war because you’re not even a worthy opponent.
And do you know how I know that? Because we already won the ideological battle. That was back in 2016. The American people do not want continued foreign intervention in every single country.
And sure, these neocons love to tell us that every single thing that Israel wants also is uniquely and directly and 100% and precisely aligned with the United States. But what they miss, frankly, the original sin of that crowd of people, is that there can be overlap of interests, but it’s not 100%.
Just because something is good for Israel does not mean that it’s good for the United States. That’s not a radical thing to say. That’s not an antisemitic thing to say. It’s the freaking truth.
And us getting involved in Iran from a kinetic perspective when there are a hundred other ways that we could get involved, or not, frankly, that’s what I would do. We certainly don’t need to impede what’s happening there.
We already won this so called civil war. Frankly, I think what we need more is some sort of exorcism of these people from the party because their ideas are so horrible. And they are like Moloch. They want the sacrifice of American children in every battlefield except our own.
These are people who are perverting the idea of securing the southern border and not focusing on foreign entanglements abroad into let’s secure the southern border so we have the political cover and excuse to get involved abroad. I don’t know about you, but that’s not MAGA to me.
You know, all these people who are like the least American I’ve ever seen. Apparently, I’ve been told by Ilhan Omar that Somalians built this country. I know the 1619 Project was pretty woke, but I don’t think that even they said that.
But these are the people who are now telling us what it means to be America. It’s in the same way that Muslims tell us, you know, well, Islam means peace. No, it doesn’t. It means submission.
In neocon ideology, and getting involved in these foreign wars, whether it’s Iran or wherever, it doesn’t mean democracy and it doesn’t mean freedom. And here in the War Room, we’re smart enough to see through that. It means death.
And it doesn’t just mean death in the countries we’re invading. It means death here at home. And it means distracted resources, wasted resources, and it’s a distraction of what really matters, which is the enemy within.
If our variable for the type of people that we are going after are those who say death to America, then I’d start in Washington, D.C., and frankly, I’d start in the Democrat Party.
You don’t need to go all the way overseas to the Ayatollahs to hear that being uttered.
Speaking of that, there’s a great Politico article, some breaking news, talking about how Democrats basically don’t want to fund ICE. The real buried lead is that they’re trying to figure out a way to euphemistically spin the fact that they hate this country and that they actually think that our borders should just completely dissipate.
And here’s a quote. Democrats are demanding new rules for DHS agents, such as forcing them to use body cameras, refrain from wearing masks, and to go through more extensive training.
I would say they should apply those rules or policies to their own shock troops, the protesters. Maybe they could stop wearing masks. Frankly, they probably need better training, at least from a defensive driving perspective.
But there’s some really interesting quotes that I want to hone in on. You guys know we like to stay ahead of the curve here in the War Room, but the messaging on this is going to be really important.
We have a clip. If we have time, we’ll play it. But basically all the Democrat leadership contributed to this article saying, quote, more importantly, we need to look out for the American people right now. They are terrorizing people in the streets of this country. There’s a culture of violence that happening that does need to be addressed.
That’s in reference to ICE agents.
And I would say to those asinine Democrats, if you guys care about terrorism and violence and keeping our streets safe, then maybe I would stop defending the importation and let alone letting criminal, twice, thrice, quadruple convicted rapists, gang members, and criminals stay in this country in the name of human rights and saying that diversity is our strength.
But I guess they only care about terrorism and crime if it has to do with ICE agents, whose, I believe, other kind of modus operandi and sole focus is actually preventing that from happening.
And here’s the real tell, and put money on it. This is what you’re going to keep hearing. They’re opposing new DHS funding, quote, because unless there are meaningful and significant reforms to immigration enforcement practices.
Now, for those of you who have watched this show for a while or tuned in to any form of politics for a while, you know that the number one term that you hear anytime it comes to anything related to immigration on both sides of the aisle is comprehensive immigration reform.
Remember that one. The Gang of Eight. Amnesty. It just sort of, I don’t know, maybe evolves every few years, but that’s always the core of it.
And now they’ve pivoted. Instead of comprehensive immigration reform, because they know they’re not going to get a lot on that front, now it’s comprehensive reform of ICE and these agents.
And by the way, the only reason that they’re throwing out they want more training is to throw sand in the wheels. It’s to get in the way of everything that’s going on and to make it so we don’t have the manpower to carry this out.
And I would also just add that it’s quite rich all these Democrat freaks complaining to Politico about how our ICE agents are not competent and they’re being hired for the wrong reasons.
I’m pretty sure that that’s the party of DEI now complaining and projecting that they think ICE is doing the very same thing, not just that they push for, but that they tried to legally mandate and enforce and shove down your throat in this country for years.
But now all of a sudden, now they think there’s something wrong with hiring unqualified people.
I don’t know about you, but I think I’m old enough to remember the apoplexy over how, if you dare to say, well, we can’t hire unqualified people, that you are racist.
And by the way, I would also add that, you know, I’m so glad there’s this newfound respect for law enforcement and border patrol and ICE agents and DHS, et cetera, from Democrats.
Well then, I don’t know about you guys. Have you heard anything from them condemning the wild and rogue Secret Service agent who was basically doxing the vice president’s location and advance details to James O’Keefe? He did wonderful work on that video.
Maybe that’s where we need reform.
Yeah. So funny.
Did you ever hear any of these members of Congress complaining about how much reform we need after Butler and Secret Service agent selection? No.
I guess it’s only when it’s convenient, right? Because now suddenly we need comprehensive reform of the only agency that’s capable of carrying out mass deportations.
And when they say comprehensive reform, they mean turn them into a welcome committee down at the border like they did under Obama, and handcuff them so they have basically no power to do anything and throw sand in the gears, make it so they can’t even enforce President Trump’s agenda.
But I don’t know, maybe we’re too busy doing a mass regime change abroad to focus on the real issues here at home.
And you want to know what the enemy within is? It’s the people who said those quotes I just read to you.
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