How can Trump be “MAGA” when he has repudiated pretty much everyone who is MAGA? Another way to put this is to ask whether MAGA is a set of principles or devotion to a single personality – even when the two things are no longer congruent.

Yesterday, Trump released another of his fulminating tirades, this time directed at Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Alex Jones. These three have been – along with Marjorie Taylor Greene – the most MAGA of Trump’s former supporters. They no longer support him because – as they have pointed out – Trump is no longer MAGA. At least, his policies no longer are and that’s the thing, as they see it.

Tucker, who is a serious Christian, was deeply offended by Trump’s Easter Day profanity-laced imprecations – his dropping the F bomb on the Iranians – and said so openly. Trump, in reply, called Carlson “low IQ” and “stupid,” which seems to be the extent of Trump’s vocabulary. It smacks of the schoolyard bully knocking the glasses off the smart kid’s face.

Trump says he thinks Brigette Macron, the wife of the president of France, is “a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it’s not even close!” This clues us in a little to Trump’s mentality. Candace Owens’ appearance is the thing – in Trump’s eyes. In other words, superficiality trumps substance.

Alex Jones – his oldest and for many years most strident supporter – gets shivved the hardest:

“Bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things, and lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, ridiculously claiming it was a hoax.”

Italics added.

How many times has Trump declared bankruptcy? How about six? Is it even necessary to reprint some of the “dumbest things” this man has said just over the past two weeks?

Then there’s that Epstein Stuff Trump pretended he was interested in exposing when he needed to get the support of the naifs back in 2024. Turns out that was all a “hoax,” too.

“These so-called ‘pundits’ are LOSERS, and they always will be! Now Fake News CNN, The Failing New York Times, and all of the other Radical Left ‘News’ Organizations, are ‘hailing’ them, and giving them ‘positive’ press for the first time in their lives. They’re not ‘MAGA,’ they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA.”

These are the flailings of a delusional and dangerous old man; a kind of writ-large caricature of Get Off My Lawn! but with his finger on the button. Trump’s penchant for coarseness was appealing, once, when it affronted the pathological pieties of the Left. The prime example being that it is stupid to pretend a man can become a woman by assuming the appearance (sort of) of one. It is alarming when he attacks the very principles he ostensibly ran on – and also those who have “stupidly” stayed true to them. Tucker, Owens, Jones – and millions of ordinary MAGA supporters – are thunderstruck by the betrayal and (worse) the insolent denial that it is a betrayal. The betrayer accuses those he betrayed of having betrayed him!

It is astounding in its effrontery. Of which there is more:

“As President, I could get them on my side anytime I want to, but when they call, I don’t return their calls because I’m too busy on World and Country Affairs and, after a few times, they go ‘nasty,’ just like Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, but I no longer care about that stuff, I only care about doing right for our Country.”

Words fail, don’t they?

“THE UNITED STATES IS NOW THE HOTTEST COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!

It summons from memory the scene in The Outlaw Josey Wales. Fletcher has just brought in a group of Confederate stragglers to surrender and be treated (so he had been led to believe) decently, as prisoners of war. Instead they are shot. The Senator says the murdered men were treated decently. They were decently fed and then decently shot.

“Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining,” Fletcher says.

Tell that to Trump.

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