Jon Passantino - This week, some of Donald Trump’s most loyal right-wing media personalities who helped carry him back to the White House sounded a lot like the liberals they’ve spent years mocking.
"The 25th Amendment needs to be invoked. He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need to intervene. We are beyond madness," wrote far-right extremist Candace Owens.
“How do we 25th Amendment his ass?” Alex Jones, the notorious conspiracy theorist and ardent Trump supporter, asked on his Infowars show.
And Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host turned podcaster, denounced Trump for his expletive-laced Easter message, calling it “vile” and suggesting he might be the Antichrist. Still others, including Megyn Kelly and Matt Walsh, turned on Trump in strikingly harsh terms after he threatened to wipe out the entire Iranian civilization.
Even by the standards of the recent feuds that have rattled the MAGA movement, the rhetoric from some of its biggest stars amounted to a scorched-earth assault on a figure they had long elevated and defended. During the 2024 campaign, those same personalities amplified Trump’s claims with little scrutiny, casting him as America’s savior from a “communist” Kamala Harris.
In a 482-word tirade on Truth Social, Trump unloaded on his now-former allies as “stupid people” and “nut jobs.”
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