Carrie Prejean Boller has known Donald Trump for nearly twenty years.
She met him at 21, competing as Miss California at the Miss USA pageant. She calls him a dear friend. She voted for him every time he ran. And on Monday, she sat across from Piers Morgan and told the world she no longer recognizes him.
“I do not recognize our president,” she said plainly. “MAGA is dead. It is deader than dead. And Americans are furious.”
She went on: “I think that we are an occupied nation. I think that a foreign country has occupied our government. And we are seeing now that this president of the United States of America is being influenced by a foreign government.” She was talking about Israel.
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Prejean Boller is not coming at this from a place of distance. She was appointed to the White House Religious Liberty Commission, a body that sits close enough to the administration to matter. She was removed from it earlier this year after she questioned the definition of antisemitism at a hearing, defended Candace Owens, and asked out loud whether “not being a Zionist” counted as antisemitic.
Her removal, she wrote in an open letter to Trump, felt like a warning shot fired before the Iran war even began. “The only Catholic woman who opposes Zionism was removed as a prelude to the Iran war,” she posted on X.
🚨President Trump officially removes me from the Religious Liberty Commission for exercising my Religious Liberty.
The only Catholic woman who opposes Zionism was removed as a prelude to the Iran war.
This is the email I received from the White House informing me that my… pic.twitter.com/Fk2IOgqsEz
— Carrie Prejean Boller (@CarriePrejean1) March 12, 2026
Her letter to the president was both a plea and an accusation. “I thought MAGA stood for defending Americans who speak their convictions without fear of punishment,” she wrote. “I thought MAGA was putting America first, not Israel. Today I struggle to recognize the movement you started.”
— Carrie Prejean Boller (@CarriePrejean1) March 12, 2026
— Carrie Prejean Boller (@CarriePrejean1) March 12, 2026
She is not alone in that struggle.
The MAGA coalition, once one of the most unified political forces in recent American history, is fracturing in public and in real time over this war. Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene are at open odds with hawkish Republicans like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz.
Megyn Kelly and Mark Levin spent the weekend exchanging what can only be described as savage personal insults on social media. Sameerah Munshi, an adviser to the same Religious Liberty Commission Prejean Boller was removed from, resigned last week in direct protest over the airstrikes.
Meanwhile, senior White House officials have privately told journalists they are experiencing buyer’s remorse over the war, Joe Kent resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center calling it a conflict started “due to pressure from Israel,” and allies across Europe have declined one by one to send military support.
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