A recent poll reveals a stark lack of public support for Operation Epic Fury, with only 27% of American adults endorsing the U.S. airstrikes that resulted in the death of Iran’s supreme leader.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released on Sunday, shows that 43% of respondents disapprove of the strikes, while 29% remain undecided.
The survey also highlights that approximately half of Americans feel the president is overly eager to employ military force for U.S. interests. In total, 56% of those polled believe President Trump is too quick to use military might.
Opinions on Trump’s military actions are deeply divided along party lines. An overwhelming 83% of Democrats feel the president is too hasty in using military force, compared to just 23% of Republicans. Meanwhile, 60% of independents share this sentiment.
This online survey included 1,282 adults across the United States and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Nearly 90% of participants reported being at least somewhat aware of the strikes, which commenced early Saturday morning and have already led to at least three American casualties.
In a Sunday interview with the Daily Mail, Trump projected that the war would take 4 weeks.
Despite initial rounds of praise from Capitol Hill Republicans, the Trump administration is now facing increased scrutiny for the attacks after news broke Sunday of US troop casualties and injuries.
Plumes of smoke rise over the residential areas of the Iranian capital following airstrikes amid ongoing US and Israeli attacks as multiple explosions are heard across the city in Tehran, Iran on March 1, 2026
Supporters of regime change in Iran demonstrate in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, on March 1st 2026. The group supports military action by the United States and Israel against Iran
Longtime Trump supporters are now bashing him for running on a campaign to end military conflicts in the Middle East, while some historically vocal anti-war voices, including Trump’s past self, now cheer the actions on.
‘This was absolutely unnecessary and is unacceptable,’ former US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from her seat last month, said on X.
‘Trump, Vance, Tulsi, and all of us campaigned on no more foreign wars and regime change. Now, America soldiers are dead,’ Greene noted.
Representative Thomas Massie, a libertarian Republican who has not been afraid to blast the Trump administration when he disagrees with them and has also been a lead advocate for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, wrote, ‘PSA: Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away, any more than the Dow going above 50,000 will.’
Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence who ran a presidential campaign on a platform of avoiding an Iranian war, oversaw the operation from the White House Situation Room alongside Vance, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
This photo provided by the White House which has been partially blurred, shows Vice President JD Vance listening with Energy Secretary Chris Wright, left, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, second from left, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, right, in the White House Situation Room during Operation Epic Fury on Saturday, February 28, 2026
In 2019 Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled ‘Trump’s Path To War With Iran,’ in which she urged voters to ‘stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran.’
Vance, as recently as October of 2024, was against the US going to war in Iran as well.
During an appearance on podcaster Tim Dillon’s show, Vance noted, ‘our interests, I think, very much, are not going to war in Iran.’
Vance also noted at the time that the Israelis, as well as the Gulf Arab States, should ‘police their own regions in the world.’
Numerous statements made by Trump during Barack Obama’s presidency, and even during his campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris, always pinned the possibility of war with Iran on his political opponents.
Harris herself rebuked Trump’s attack, noting in a statement that she was ‘opposed to a regime-change war in Iran,’ and ‘that troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.’
