{"id":58699,"date":"2026-04-10T08:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58699"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:50:41","slug":"trump-torches-maga-blasts-his-biggest-now-former-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/trump-torches-maga-blasts-his-biggest-now-former-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Trump Torches MAGA \u2013 Blasts His Biggest (Now Former) Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Trump has shown a curious characteristic of turning on those who want to hold him to account. Right at the beginning, we had the falling out with Elon Musk over the Big Beautiful Bill. Then, to Trump voters who wanted accountability on the Epstein Files, the president wrote: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want their support anymore.&#8221; And now the president has attacked his biggest and most influential backers, like Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and Tucker Carlson. Why is the president burning so many important bridges?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XTDSudVMcyI?si=jr5C58wbpY2cU9SE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump has shown a curious characteristic of turning on those who want to hold him to account. Right at the beginning, we had the falling out with Elon Musk over the Big Beautiful Bill. Then, to Trump voters who wanted accountability on the Epstein Files, the president wrote: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[768,1394],"class_list":["post-58699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58705,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58699\/revisions\/58705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58699"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}