A Fox News host is urging MAGA to take a little break from viewing President Donald Trump purely through orange-tinted glasses.

Marine Corps veteran Johnny “Joey” Jones reminded viewers on Sunday’s episode of “The Big Weekend Show” that it’s actually OK for Americans to question the president over the joint U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran — especially when U.S. soldiers are killed.

Johnny “Joey” Jones on Fox News’ “The Big Weekend Show” Sunday, and President Donald Trump.

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In a video address earlier on Sunday, Trump acknowledged that three U.S. service members had died in action during the attack that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday. Trump vowed to “avenge” their deaths, but said there would “likely be more.”

Jones, who lost both his legs in a 2010 IED-related incident in Afghanistan, began by pointing out that although the U.S. death toll seems small, it has a much larger impact.

“I understand that three is a small number,” Jones said. “But three lives lost, three Americans killed in action, is hundreds, if not thousands, of lives affected — really, millions — for every American out there that understands what that’s like.”

Two men stand on the ruins of a police headquarters that was destroyed in the U.S.-Israeli attack on Tehran, Iran, on March 2, 2026.

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Jones went on to admit that service members are well aware that “it is a possibility if not a probability” that your life will be at risk, but this particular incident felt a bit unusual to him.

“You know, I’ve seen it. I’ve experienced it. But we’ve been at war for less than 24 hours … What’s different here for me is to understand that these men and women, whoever they are, that died in his counterattack — they didn’t say goodbye to their families contemplating their own mortality, the way a lot of us did for 20 years of going to war. They didn’t know they were going to an active war.”

“But I think it’s OK for any Americans who are saying, ‘Wait, just a minute. Tell me more. Tell me why we’re at war. Explain to me why this was imminent,’” Jones said.

He added that wanting more information about the attack doesn’t diminish “your patronage to the American government, or even if you’re MAGA or what have you.”

“It does not question President Trump’s wisdom in this,” he later said.

Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One as joint U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran continue on March 1, 2026.

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Jones added: “I think that should be a part of the conversation. I would be a hypocrite if I didn’t sit here and say, ‘I don’t care who the president is. The American people should ask questions and demand answers when our blood is shed.’ And that has happened. And those three men and/or women are heroes, and their lives matter, and we should want to know exactly what happened and how that doesn’t happen again.”

“We accept, in this country, zero casualties,” Jones said. “We are that good at warfare, and we’re that smart about it.”

He concluded by doubling down on his call for clarity.

“And I don’t think that’s a bad thing — I don’t think it questions even this administration to feel that way,” Jones said.

In an eight-minute video posted to Truth Social following the attack Saturday morning, Trump said the objective of the mission was to “to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime” and insisted that Iran “can never have a nuclear weapon.”

This is despite Trump claiming — just last year — that Iran’s nuclear facilities had already “been completely and totally obliterated.”

“The decision to put American servicemembers in harm’s way demands clarity, consistency, and honesty with Congress and the public,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.). “So far, we’ve got none of those things.”

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