Trump Movement Decline, MAGA Principles Abandonment
The original principles and rhetoric of the MAGA movement have collapsed, leaving a "grim and sad situation" where only a few loyalists like Sean Hannity and Mark Levin remain. Donald Trump is criticized for throwing his early supporters under the bus and allowing the movement to be assimilated into the standard GOP establishment. There is a refusal to support future candidates like JD Vance or Marco Rubio who are viewed as complicit in this failure.
donald trump· maga movement· sean hannity· mark levin· laura loomer· gop
00:00 I mean, you were one of the first big interviews when people started to pay attention to Trump. When he went on your show in 2015 we're all gone. Nobody from the original movement is still hanging on because the principles are not there. The rhetoric's not there it's just not the same movement and so with the approval rating favorability collapsing You look around at the bench who do you really have left in the MAGA Movement? Yeah, it's Sean Hannity It's Mark Levin, its Loomer And I guess he's just gonna take what he can get. So it's a pretty grim and sad situation, I wouldn't- Yeah, he says, I anoint these people because listen, I talked to Trump supporters everywhere. That'll go off what my listeners want. I wanted to salvage Trump because that was overall better than Democrats so I kinda held back not wanting him to be precipitous even though it'd be super popular attacking him. I would say 80% of my listeners are pissed at me that I haven't attacked Trump more
00:51 I love Trump like, oh, I don't talk to you and that's why you do this for clicks. I don't care about CNN playing a clip of me. No, I wanna fix the country and the world. Yeah, I dunno how much danger we're in but just this idea that you're not at the cool kid table anymore it's like sophomoric. It's ridiculous and I've known you and my audience knows you too. And this has been an ongoing conversation between you and I for years and You had reservations and concerns and skepticism, but literally for no reason. We've had private conversations where you put on air I'm like Nick i know it's going bad but think about the Democrats we gotta if we totally leave him then we'll have no influence we need to not influence to get contact with him no influence to get him to not go sideways But now I've just given up I mean you were right you were right I was wrong I mean there's no doubt now this is a runaway train. Even in spite of the fact that
01:40 I turned out to be right. The pessimist sort of won with regard to the Trump movement, regardless of that fact Alex was always on the money in a sense that he was willing good for the country I don't think there's anything actually necessarily wrong with hoping that Trump was going to succeed, wanting the best from the Trump movement. Wanting the best from the Trump administration and it's true that was out of pure selflessness because it is true for the past two or three years It actually became more and more popular at least since the inauguration To attack Trump And really as negative as possible about Trump to play up The war in Iran Or even for that matter the War in Gaza
02:21 Some of the other things like the big beautiful bill, the lack of mass deportations. And I think that it was always a valid position even though it turned out maybe not to be true. It was a valid position to want Trump to eventually get it together and get back on track but now Trump goes out and just throws everybody under the bus. Even the people that believed in him even the people that maybe wanted to believe in him were hopeful for him willing the good in spite of himself in spite of his own betrayal love is own movement And so I suppose that's really the saddest thing. But the MAGA movement does not resemble what it originally was. It's something else now, it utterly and totally failed that was assimilated to the GOP. I'm not gonna vote for more MAGA. I'm not gonna vote for Vance or Rubio who are a part of this train wreck. They're complicit in it they're apart of it they own it- You got me because I've said this from the start of show This is an ass kissing contest
