Candace Owens admits she's now 'embarrassed' she supported Trump

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Jun 25, 2025

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Conservative podcaster Candace Owens has admitted she’s “embarrassed” she supported Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, saying she now considers him a “chronic disappointment.”

The 36-year-old White Plains native said the president lost her confidence over the weekend when he decided to engage in the Israel-Iran conflict by bombing three Iranian nuclear facilities.

“I feel embarrassed that I told people to go vote for him because this wasn’t going to happen, and it is happening,” she said during an appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”

Many conservatives like Owens complain that Trump’s “America First” campaign pledge led them to believe the U.S. wouldn’t intervene in foreign wars when he became president for the second time.

Tensions in the Middle East exploded on June 13 when Israeli airstrikes targeted Iranian military sites, along with people and locations crucial to the country’s nuclear program. The U.S. and Israel have been in agreement that Iran should never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.

But according to Owens, the decision for U.S. bombers to strike Iran’s nuclear sites wasn’t really Trump’s, it was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s.

“We’re very aware that Israel is dictating our foreign policy and we’d now like that to stop,” Owens told Morgan.

She argued that Iran posed no threat to the U.S. and called Trump’s association with Israeli interests a “deal with the Devil.”

British-born Morgan told Owens he’s fascinated by how American involvement in the Middle East has divided prominent MAGA activists like herself and Tucker Carlson from fellow Trump loyalists like Sean Hannity and Laura Loomer.

“The MAGA movement has always been a movement that explicitly did not want to keep involving our sons and daughters in the Middle East,” Owens argued.

In the immediate aftermath of the bombings, President Donald Trump declared the targets were “obliterated” though military experts agreed it would take time to assess how much damage was actually inflicted.

On Tuesday, numerous media outlets, citing anonymous intelligence sources, reported that preliminary investigations indicated some of the targets were damaged, but not destroyed as the president said.

Trump and National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard — who told Congress in March that Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon — doubled down on his claims Wednesday, while crediting the strikes with ending the two-week war between Israel and Iran.

“It was really bad. It was devastating. … I think we had a great victory here,” Trump said while wrapping up the NATO summit. “(The damage) was so bad that they ended the war.”

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