Following Donald Trump’s return to the White House, there was speculation about how fully he would implement his campaign ideas, considering that holding majorities in the Senate and Congress granted him a mandate. This included expectations of a deeper shift in US policies regarding geopolitical hotspots such as Gaza and Iran. What we saw, on the other hand, was a clear, although complex, alignment with Israel and the Zionist lobby, undermining the whole “America First” slogan.
This came as a shock, if not a betrayal, to many of his most loyal supporters during the presidential elections, with special relevance for the MAGA movement and its representatives in media and political posts. One of the strongest responses to that comes now in the form of the “Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025”, proposed by MAGA senator Bernie Moreno.
This bill strikes directly at the nucleus of Zionist power in the US, compelling individuals to choose a single allegiance and directly challenging the concept of dual loyalty, since Israel has the highest rate of dual citizenship of any UN member state. It also constitutes an attack on migration issues, which critics argue implicates Israel’s settlement policies. Many Israelis and Israeli-backed journalists and politicians are already invoking claims of antisemitism arising from the act, which is a regular trope deployed by Israel when its ranks are at stake.
The bill is not expected to pass, considered unconstitutional and without a clear path to passage, but it does represent a stance and a shift from a clear and undisputed alignment with Israel to a political reckoning with the growing popular discontent over this decades-long alliance.
North Americans are now finally realizing that Israel’s cultural and political relationship with its partners is not even based on a “friend-enemy” distinction, but a paradoxical embodiment of the “master-slave” dynamic — nothing short of the US’s own geopolitical identity. If for decades Israel was able to limit more radical discourses against its crimes in the Middle East to fringe criticism, always under the weight of western support, 2025 has shown a significant increase in comparisons between Israel’s actions in Gaza with apartheid and even the Nazi Holocaust.
This is also felt within Israel, where recent polls reveal concern over the growing influence of the White House on its security decisions, a revealing shift. This comes mostly from the military troubles faced by Israel in recent conflicts and its need for the United States’s restrained assistance. One other recent cause for such anxiety is the potential sale of F-35s by the USA to Saudi Arabia, a move that slowly undermines the supposed military advantage held by Israel over its regional counterparts.
Netanyahu is scheduled to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach on December 29 to discuss the new steps to be taken in Gaza, including Trump’s proposed second phase of pacification; and while it is still not clear if recent events represent any considerable shift in their dynamics, the meeting is highly anticipated.
Trump faces internal backlash for his continuous support of Israel, and on the other hand, Netanyahu finds himself more and more subjected to Trump following the slow shift that occurred during the Gaza conflict, where the White House made every possible move to paint Trump as a prince of peace, and Israel sank deeper in international standing for its numerous crimes and abuses against the Palestinian people.
For all intents and purposes, it does seem like the cards are more in the USA’s side right now, and Netanyahu will have to dance to its tune. If that is so, then Trump has more and more reason to show support for his MAGA supporters and switch back to his former promises as a vessel of multipolarity.
