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Under the hashtag #SyriaHoax, a part of Twitter that usually musters its powers to promote Trump’s agenda started to urge the president to stay out of Syria.

One account tweeted, “We don’t want war in Syria!! Don’t believe the #SyriaHoax, we need to focus on our own country right now. America First.”

“I voted for you, my whole family voted for you,” said Angelo John Gage, a Marine veteran who was once the chairman of the white nationalist National Youth Front. “We all busted our a–es to destroy the fake media news, and now you’re falling for it.”

His video reaction to rumours of U.S. military action in Syria was a direct address to Trump, and it went viral. Both WikiLeaks and Infowars reposted it.

Photo by Robert S. Price / U.S. Navy

Cernovich livestreamed himself talking about Syria for about 11 hours Thursday. Days ago, Cernovich was getting praise from Trump’s son, who suggested he should win a Pulitzer. He spent Thursday rallying his followers to try to change Trump’s mind about intervention in Syria.

Cernovich was adamant Trump might listen to him and his readers for a decent reason: There’s plenty of evidence Trump reads and values conspiracy-theory sites like Infowars, and Cernovich appears to have some readers in the Trump administration.

In a tweet, Cernovich suggested “basic logic and 101 level game theory and strategic thinking” had to be ignored if one were to believe the Syrian government gassed its own people.

Several hours into his livestream, however, news broke that Trump hadn’t listened to them.