Of everything Col. Macgregor told me, one line stopped me cold: he is more genuinely concerned about the president's safety right now than he has ever been...
His read on the U-turn is that Trump finally did the hard thing.
From their private conversations years ago, Macgregor says Trump never wanted war with Iran, or anyone.
He got pulled in, overwhelmed by Netanyahu and his billionaire backers, and eventually realized the only way to end the war was to actually end it.
You can't talk your way out. That, Macgregor argues, took real courage, even if it looks like defeat.
But now comes the backlash.
He believes Israel's supporters have turned this into a test of just how much power they wield, and the pressure campaign on Trump is only beginning.
Mobilized senators, captured media, threats of impeachment, and worse.
Criminal probes into his family, the Epstein files dragged back to center stage
This is the third guest in a week, after Tucker, Joe Kent, MTG, to tell me they think Trump may be under duress.
Macgregor lived through JFK. When a man like him says he's afraid, I listen.
His bigger thesis: the world has shifted for good.
Iran won, it controls the strait, and the age of sailing in to bully nations into submission is over.
@DougAMacgregor