'A disaster for America First': Trump allies fear Netanyahu meeting will pull US deeper into war with Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during his last in-person meeting at the White House, reportedly sold President Donald Trump on starting a war with Iran. Now, the GOP's America First wing fears he's about to pitch the president on ramping up attacks. "I think all of President Trump's most ardent non-'Israel First' supporters are furious," said former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. "Netanyahu has had twice as many visits to the White House in 18 months as Churchill had in all of World War II — with every one of them a disaster for America First." The meeting comes as new polling shows that a growing share of the president's base no longer believes the war is worth its economic costs. And Republicans are increasingly resigned to the fact that the war will likely still be hanging over voters in some form when they head to the polls in November. "Netanyahu is kind of a problem-maker at the moment, right? This war has consumed the last five and a half months or so. There's not a clear solution to it," said a former official, granted anonymity to speak candidly about the dynamics of the meeting. "Trump probably, publicly or not, blames Netanyahu partially or associates him with a thing going badly. It's not like it has to be his fault. It's that he's associated with it. And the president's pissed off about it."