Johnny Jones delivered a message to the president on Sunday evening.
Fox News host Johnny “Joey” Jones issued some advice to President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while claiming Americans have limited tolerance for another lengthy war. Jones—a former colleague of Hegseth—spoke on the subject of Trump’s war during Sunday evening’s edition ofJones opened his speech by acknowledging that he feels “very torn” about the news that the Trump administration is contemplatingJones is a former Marine, serving in the Marine Corps for eight years before losing both of his legs in an IED-related incident in Afghanistan in 2010.
He has appeared alongside Hegseth during the 45-year-old’s decade-long stint as a contributor to the network prior to joining Trump’s cabinet in 2025.Jones, 39, said. “I had a lot of conversations with him before he was confirmed as Secretary of War. I know what’s in his heart and in his experience.”“I’ve also watched President Trump for more than a decade, who’s said ‘no new wars’, ‘no forever wars’ and backed that up. The track record is there. I don’t think he’s changed. I don’t think he’s owned by Benjamin Netanyahu. I do think there are complexities to this that you’re going to get criticized over, but I’m going to say this,” he continued, before addressing Trump, Hegseth, and General Dan Caine directly. “President Trump, Pete Hegseth, General Caine, and the rest of the generals: if you send our men and women into that country to kill our bad guys, to spill their blood because they deserve it, I don’t have to agree with you on it, just please do this: Don’t nation-build. Don’t win hearts and minds. Don’t spread democracy.” President Donald Trump speaks next to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 26, 2026.“Spill the blood of the evil that deserve to die without our hands tied and without a PR campaign and get the hell out of there. That’s all we have tolerance for. That’s all that will work,” he argued. Jones continued, drawing a parallel between Trump’s current war and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and adding, “We won every battle in Iraq and Afghanistan–but we lost the war because our politicians don’t have a spine. Don’t be those people.”59% of Americans say that the U.S. made the wrong decision in using military force in Iran, while 45% feel the conflict is not going at all well.With the president publicly vowing to continue “bombing our little hearts out” and threatening to “unleash hell” against Iran whileU.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media before departing West Palm Beach aboard Air Force One, Florida, U.S., March 23, 2026.Jones is far from the only conservative to urge the Trump administration to exercise caution in Iran and advocate a somewhat anti-interventionist stance; other MAGA media figures like“As this thing goes south, we need to know exactly who talked him into it,” Kelly said. “What representations were made to convince the president that this was a good idea. Who? Who specifically?” She also took aim at her fellow conservative media figures, including Fox News’ Mark Levin and Mark Thiessen, saying of the pair, “I like those guys. But they appear to have been very wrong that this was a good idea.”
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