The Maga profiles who oppose Trump: "Tired of the shit"
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Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump embraces host Megyn Kelly at an appearance in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shortly before the election in November 2024.
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They are influential hosts and Maga profiles who are considered to have contributed to Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election.
But now Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Joe Rogan are angry.
- I'm so sick of this shit, Kelly said the other day on his podcast.
The move came after President Trump threatened on social media that "an entire civilization" would die - hours before the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire in the Iran war.
- You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization, Kelly said on The Megyn Kelly Show.
– It’s completely irresponsible and disgusting.
She’s not alone. Tucker Carlson recently spent a large portion of a podcast dissing Trump’s “lousy” Easter Sunday social media posts. In it, the president called Iran “you crazy bastards” and threatened hell if they didn’t “open the fucking strait.”
“Who do you think you are? You’re tweeting the f-word on Easter Sunday,” an outraged Carlson said on the podcast.
Politically homeless?
Like Kelly, he has a past as a host on conservative Fox News. Both have campaigned for and with Donald Trump, and are known within the right-wing Maga movement (after Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again”). Now they host some of the country’s most influential podcasts, with audiences in the millions.
They’re not alone. Joe Rogan, whose podcast has tens of millions of listeners, supported Trump's candidacy in 2024. But after blaming Trump for the Iran war a few weeks ago, when the president promised to keep the country out of war and focus on the United States, Rogan now describes himself as "politically homeless."
He is joined by former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has harshly criticized Trump for both his handling of the so-called Epstein files and the Iran war, as well as far-right figures Alex Jones and Candace Owens. Owens has advocated on X that Trump be removed from office through the 25th Amendment, which can be used if a president is deemed unfit to serve.
"Maybe it's time to put Grandpa in a home," she wrote to her 7.8 million followers last week.
Stupid and troublemakers
Trump, for his part, claims in a social media post that Carlson, Kelly and Owens have “low IQs” and are “troublemakers” who will do anything for publicity.
But the fact is that it was largely their listeners who delivered his election victory in 2024.
The question is how the media profiles’ criticism lands among voters. War is not popular in the Magasphere, where many are conservative and religious. The fact that the president has also made fun of Allah, had a public argument with the Pope and posted (and later deleted) an AI image depicting him as Jesus has not made the situation any better.
“Blasphemy,” Taylor Greene thunders about the image.
FACTS
Support for Donald Trump
Republican Donald Trump took office on January 20, 2025, for his second term as president of the United States. Since then, support for him has declined, which is common for a sitting president.
Currently, 41.4 percent say Trump is doing a good job, while 56.8 percent say he is not, according to a Real Clear Politics compilation of 13 recent polls.
According to the website Fiftyplusone, an opinion aggregator that weights current surveys using a mathematical model, Trump's support is lower: 37.8 percent. 58.2 percent disapprove of the president's job performance. The figures are in line with those reported on the website Silver Bulletin, started by opinion expert Nate Silver.
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