Trump Loses MAGA Supporters as Former Allies Speak Out

21 Sep 2026 · 25 min · 9 chapters

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In short

Former MAGA Republicans and other right-leaning voters say they’re abandoning Trump after economic pain (fuel/diesel prices, cost of living), unmet promises (no end to wars, “$5,000” checks), and alleged corruption/cover-ups. The episode also claims MAGA influencers and “bot farms” are running coordinated talking points to resist the backlash.

Guest backgrounds

The transcript features multiple anonymous former MAGA supporters and clips from them, including a voter who supported Trump three times (influenced by conservative media hosts), a “Christian and American” voter, a rancher and oil-field business owner, and a MAGA trucker/marine veteran voice. It also cites MAGA influencers (e.g., Mike Bales, Bill Mitchell, Hunter Eagleman) and “paid shills” (e.g., Mark Matz).

Key claims

Trump’s supporters are “waking up,” gaslighting is happening on Truth Social, and MAGA messaging is being manipulated. The episode alleges Trump is lying about accomplishments and national security, and that wars and prices are worsening.

Notable examples

Viral Reddit-style regret posts; clips citing diesel prices, “renaming bodies of water,” war with Iran, and diesel at record highs; Truth Social responses contradicting Trump’s claim that prices were higher under Biden; influencer arguments that people should accept higher costs by comparing gas to wine/entertainment.

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Chapters

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MAGA Supporters Wake Up

0:00 to 1:24

Exploring the shift in sentiment among MAGA supporters as they express disillusionment.

“These Trump MAGA supporters are saying, we thought this was all about don't tread on me.”

Voices of Former MAGA Supporters

1:24 to 4:26

Former supporters share their stories of regret and disappointment in Trump.

“Let me show you what we're hearing from MAGA people.”

Diverse Perspectives on Voting

4:26 to 6:41

Different individuals discuss their reasons for changing political allegiances.

“And you guys have been controlling the House, the Senate, and the White House this whole time.”

Ranchers and the Impact of Politics

6:41 to 9:16

Ranchers express their frustrations with political leadership and its consequences on their industry.

“What made me change my mind was the mounting doubts about traditional Catholicism.”

Ranchers and the Impact of Politics

10:05 to 11:01

Ranchers express their frustrations with political leadership and its consequences on their industry.

“Z-Biotics pre-alcohol is the small thing I added that made the whole weekend easier.”

MAGA Truckers' Frustrations

11:14 to 14:00

Truck drivers discuss their dissatisfaction with current political leadership and its effects on their livelihoods.

“What are the MAGA truckers thinking about this?”

Critique of MAGA Talking Points

14:00 to 18:20

Listeners will learn about the contradictions in MAGA supporters' arguments regarding gas prices and national security.

“of their two cars they want to drive to buy their overpriced Starbucks coffee.”

Reactions from Former Trump Supporters

18:20 to 19:46

The segment discusses backlash from former Trump supporters regarding his claims about gas prices.

“So Donald Trump posted last night, late last night, the following, gas prices were much higher under Biden than under Trump.”

The Nature of Trump's Administration

19:46 to 20:22

An exploration of the perceived corruption and failures of Trump's administration is provided.

“for supporting genocide, getting us involved in a catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran.”
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0:00Ben Meiselas:They're burning their MAGA hats. They're throwing out their Trump flags. It's happening everywhere all at once. These Trump MAGA supporters are saying, we thought this was all about don't tread on me. And now this MAGA movement has become tread on me, daddy. What? We've heard from all of these MAGA Republicans or former MAGA Republicans who are saying enough. We are out. I mean, there are thousands of messages we're seeing every single hour. Messages like this. Being pro-Trump used to be effing awesome. Don't really know about that, but okay. He was clowning people right to their face, posting memes and blowing up the whole stale system, this MAGA said.

0:46Ben Meiselas:We laughed at everyone trying to stop him and built a network of people who embraced him being an outsider. He was the villain. He was our villain. It was hilarious. Eventually, he started lying and lying a lot. It became overwhelming just like that. It wasn't so funny anymore. We warned you, ain't nothing funny about the wrecking ball that is this disgusting regime that's covering up child sex trafficking rings and getting into catastrophic wars, destroying the United States and killing so many people abroad and here at home. Let me show you what we're hearing from MAGA people. MAGA people are waking up.

1:31Ben Meiselas:Listen to this former MAGA supporter here play this clip. All right. Okay. I voted for Trump three times. I'll admit it. I was influenced, thought I was a critical thinker. I was influenced and fooled by Donald Trump. but wasn't just Donald Trump as every conservative talk show host from here to New York, California I was fooled by them also the Ben Shapiros, Tucker Carlson's Benny Johnson's Megyn Kelly's you name it well I was listening to all of them Big Bad Dan Bongino I was listening to him too and I thought I was on the right track. So I supported Donald Trump because, you know, I thought he would tackle our debt, which was concerning to me because I have a wife and four kids, four young kids.

2:30I say young from 20 to 13. But I was kind of fighting for them with my vote. Even had my 13-year-old son go in there and pull the lever, obviously, next to me. We were very proud to support Trump. Well, not again. I'm not even going to call myself a conservative anymore. I'm just a Christian and an American.

2:53Ben Meiselas:Or how about this individual who said he voted for Donald Trump before and he says things have gotten so bad against the Trump regime. This dude, this daddy Dave, he says we need an uprising right now against the Trump regime. Here play this clip. One thing I do have to say, and I know a lot of people are not going to agree with this is Yes, I did vote for Trump, but I voted for him under the assumption that he was going to actually do something for our country and for our economy and for the American people. And as of yet, I haven't seen any of that. So you can hate on me for voting for Trump.

3:43I admit I voted for him and I voted for him under false pretense. So I am not happy with what's being done. And in my honest opinion, an uprising needs to happen.

4:04Ben Meiselas:How about this dude? He's like, all right, so what's Trump doing? And renaming bodies of water, largest red distribution of wealth in American history, the highest diesel price ever. Yeah, I don't think you're going to be getting that$5 ,000 check he's promising you. But good luck with that. Here, play this clip. Well, MAGA, the midterms are coming up in two months. And you guys have been controlling the House, the Senate, and the White House this whole time. And your accomplishments have been renaming bodies of water. going to war with Iran and breaking the all-time national average cost for diesel fuel.

4:46So I'm not really sure how it's going to go, but I wouldn't be banking on no$5 ,000.

4:53Ben Meiselas:And then this guy's like, Donald, I'm your biggest friend, but no one can afford this shit, Donald. Donald, no one can afford this shit no more. Here, play this clip. And yes, the orange facade is a crack at play this clip. Donald Trump, really? I'm your biggest fan. $0.19 for diesel? Can't nobody a - And there's this Reddit board right now that's going crazy viral. Serious question. If you voted for Trump in 2024, do you feel you made a huge mistake? And we're getting responses like this. I voted for Trump in 2024. Here's how it happened. So basically, Trump has been in mainstream politics since 2014, 2015.

5:33Ben Meiselas:When I was around 12 to 13, he was masculine role model to me, especially because I didn't really have anyone else to look up to as my parents fought verbally and physically endlessly and treated me poorly. I ended up voting for him in 2024 because I worried the job market I was going to graduate into was going to be worse if Kamala Harris got elected because I falsely attributed the strong economy from 2016 to 2020 to Trump's leadership and the weak economy from 2020 to 2024 to Biden. It was a combination of his obscene corruption, his willingness to financially burden the working class, Epstein files in the Iran war that it made me deeply regret voting for him.

6:15Ben Meiselas:I'm voting all blue in the midterms and for a progressive blue in 2028, not making the same mistake twice. I think I was fooled by him because he's charismatic, wealthy, confident, and I'm the opposite of those things. I know if I'm old enough to vote, I should be old enough to know better, but other Americans made the same mistake for the same reason and are quietly regretting it and suffering for it at the pumps. Okay, okay, what about this person? What made me change my mind was the mounting doubts about traditional Catholicism. Then when I began deconstructing from that old conservatism felt like a house of cards.

6:52Ben Meiselas:So now I'm doing all the research. I tend to learn more about Democratic candidates and I'm proud to say I'll be voting blue from here on out. Another person goes, it's blatantly obvious he ruins everything he touches. And even what he does is illegal. He does it anyway and lets the courts argue about it after once the damage is done. The White House is destroyed. The reflecting pool appears to be abandoned without being fixed properly. The Kennedy Center is considering filing bankruptcy. Doge could have only been about giving Elon our own personal information. I, we truly fucked up. Excuse my language.

7:27Ben Meiselas:I'm just reading it. And unfortunately, it's not an America problem now. It is a global problem. What are the ranchers thinking about this? What are ranchers thinking about this? Here play this clip. So I'm a rancher and an oil field business owner. And for the first time ever in this upcoming election, I'm going to vote 100 percent blue. For my whole life, I voted almost exclusively red, with an exception to the presidential election up until now. And I know some of you that follow me, there's like, no, there's no fucking way you're a big time lib. No, I voted almost exclusively red with an exception to the presidential election up until now.

8:05And I even voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024. I didn't vote Democratic. I voted for the Libertarian candidate or candidates. Don't even know their fucking name. Yeah, I know it's a wasted vote. Voted for them in 2020 and 2024 because I couldn't stand to give either party. for the presidential election my vote. But here I am now, I can't stand to give another Republican that supports this administration another vote. There is nothing that was campaigned on that is being delivered. No new wars, we have another never-ending war in Iran. Lower energy prices, energy prices are double what they were at the beginning of this year.

8:49Drill baby, drill? I'm in the oil industry. You would think with the price of oil right now, oil companies would be climbing over each other to drill new wells. They don't want to do shit. Yeah, there's a few new rigs picking up, but the way Trump has fucked oil companies over in the past with signing OPEC deals and flooding the market with foreign oil, they're just going to rake in these profits. Fuck this guy. They don't want to do him any favors. The cattle market, the one shining beacon in the ag economy right now, and he goes and fucks with it at the time when everyone's marketing calves and imports foreign beef, losing every single rancher selling calves in this time period, thousands and thousands of dollars.

9:38And these checks he's promising if the Republicans win? What about all the other checks? What about the doge checks? What about the tariff refund checks? Where are those? And now he's going to give us another$5 ,000? This guy is a fucking liar. He literally is having to bribe you people to get votes because he has done nothing for you. Saturday nights with my wife and friends. Sunday mornings with my kids. Those are both non-negotiables. Z-Biotics pre-alcohol is the small thing I added that made the whole weekend easier. Z-Biotics pre-alcohol probiotic drink is the world's first genetically engineered probiotic.

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11:18Ben Meiselas:What about the MAGA truckers? What are the MAGA truckers thinking about this? Here, play this clip. I voted for Trump's, but I've done lost the pin because there's no reason for these fuel prices and the cost of living being this high. Truck's gonna sit there and rot now until this idiot president is out of office. I voted for him and I'm so sorry I voted for him. I would never thought I would say this. I miss Joe Biden. Our fearless fucking leader, Trump the chump, now has pissed me off to the point where I I want him out of office right now.

12:02I voted for him, but the motherfucker has gone clean off the edge. We're dying out here, and most of us, we feel as if you really don't give a shit, and you're listening to too many of these allies, and honestly, they don't give a shit about us, and you should be focusing on your citizens here. you're the chief and commander of this great nation it's the highest standard it takes a lot it's a huge load on your shoulder um we're worried you're not built from that kind of cloth to be the chief and commander and as a united states marine veteran i'll tell you us veterans we're not fucking happy we're not happy with this leadership if you would please give a shit Could you do that?

12:56Ben Meiselas:Now, one of the things we're seeing also is this MAGA PSYOP, though, with their bot farms and their MAGA influencers who are doing what they can to try to hold the line for MAGA as everybody's abandoning them. The line's actually broken. But they're like, come back to MAGA, come back to MAGA. This is the PSYOP that they're running right now. They're all basically posting the same message. And it's like a variation of this. Ready? Here are some MAGA people right here getting their talking points from Donald Trump. If you can drop$60 on a bottle of wine,$7 on a latte,$16 on a cocktail, and$14 on a stadium beer and a plastic cup, you can pay$4.50 for a gallon of gas.

13:45Ben Meiselas:That's one MAGA influencer, Mike Bales. Bill Mitchell, MAGA influencer, goes, people complain about being broke. as they watch one of their three flat screen TVs or type on their$1 ,200 smartphone or decide which of their two cars they want to drive to buy their overpriced Starbucks coffee. Hunter Eagleman, people walking around with 2 ,000 foldable iPhones,$800 shoes, and a$14 pumpkin spice latte. I was going around with$800 shoes, bud. Then saying they can't or won't vote for Trump because of gas prices. Yeah. Okay. How about the paid shills talking points right here? This guy, Mark Matz, he goes, raise your hand.

14:31Ben Meiselas:If you'd rather pay a little more at the pump, then let Iran get a nuke. Hands remain down. Donald Trump said he obliterated the nuclear program in 2025. We had a deal with Iran, the JCPOA under the Obama administration. What the And you're going to be giving civilian nuclear capabilities to Saudi Arabia. You've given our Blackwell semiconductor classified chips to the UAE. Our F-35 parts have made their way to China. So spare me your views on national security. And by the way, Donald Trump's the one out there posting things like threatening nuclear or annihilation of the world with deranged memes or Donald Trump posting weird memes of himself looking over the globe and that's a his hemisphere or Donald Trump bragging about conquering Venezuela to steal their oil and their resources.

15:30Ben Meiselas:So spare me this morality lecture about Iran, nuclear weapons. And so that's good. Shut the hell up. It's people like you who have screwed our country so badly who have put us in this catastrophic war you've destroyed what the united states had before i mean it's you are the root cause of all of this stuff um and then you go this would be the price of gas if iran would have nuclear weapons 115 dollars 111 dollars a gallon 107 dollars a gallon i mean just stupid like what imagine how bad it would have been if kamala Harris, it would have been way worse than this. Imagine what it would be like if Iran had a nuclear weapon.

16:14Ben Meiselas:You know what you were saying? Did you give up the talking points of Kim Jong-un, Daddy Kim, Donald Trump's Daddy Kim Jong-un, who he says that he would send love letters to? Remember his talking points over here? Imagine a world where things would be so much worse. Actually, it's pretty much as freaking bad as it could be under this despicable Trump regime right now. Okay, these are more of the MAGA talking points right here. The Chuds got their marching orders on how to make cattle feel better about$5 a gallon in gas, a catastrophic war, and a historically unpopular president. Let's keep it in perspective.

16:52Ben Meiselas:Dang, this is what one MAGA included. Dang, perspective is everything. Anyone else ever thought of things this way? I keep hearing people complain that gasoline is over$4 a gallon, and yes, I'd love to see it at $2 again. But before we declare gasoline the most outrageously expensive liquid on earth, let's put things in perspective. For$4, I get a gallon of gasoline. I pour it into a 4 ,000 pound machine, turn a key, and that gallon will haul me the groceries, the golf clubs, and half the junk in my trunk almost 30 miles down the highway. That's actually pretty impressive day's work for four dollars now let's compare a restaurant sells me a five ounce glass of wine for nine dollars that's about 230 dollars a gallon and how far does that transport mean he'll all these people are you know are writing that message as well that's how they're trying to hold the line remember when the trump regime started they were like you get two pencils one eraser you get one barbie for that's it, you know, when they were doing their tariffs against the world.

17:59Ben Meiselas:We're going to do strict supply controls. The Trump regime tells you how many pencils, how many Barbies, you get a little tiny little piece of meat, you get a half a carrot. Shut up, tread on me, daddy. And then I want to show you this swift rebuke from Donald Trump's former MAGA supporters on his Truth Social account. So Donald Trump posted last night, late last night, the following, gas prices were much higher under Biden than under Trump. So were almost all other prices, President DJT. And then you got hundreds and then thousands of messages in response to Donald Trump's post on his own social media platform like this, gaslighting.

18:46Ben Meiselas:No, they weren't. They really were. And pardon me, gas prices are through the roof. No, they were not. Voted for you three times and I can finally say you're not the same man we put in office. Diesel is at record highs. You promised lower gas prices. End the war, please. Sure. Cry face emoji. I don't care what gas prices were back then. I care about what they are now. Please genuinely shut up. You sound so astonishingly R word. With all due respect, no the heck it wasn't. Diesel's at$7.25 in Michigan. Congratulations then. Well, that's a lie, but I guess the dummies here believe anything. Go change your diapers.

19:30Ben Meiselas:You're full of shit again. So people are waking up though, folks. People are waking up, that's for sure. You know, when I cover it here, I don't even really talk about this in political terms. I mean, these people in the Trump White House, I mean, they're sick. They're a racketeering enterprise covering up child sex trafficking with the Epstein file for supporting genocide, getting us involved in a catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. I mean, just screwing with people, ripping away people's healthcare. Dude lies about literally freaking everything. Everything out of every sound syllable is a lie.

20:06Ben Meiselas:And then you guys just like the many does the freaking YMCA dance. They're losers. These are loser people and they really hurt. They're evil. They're like demented demons, evil people. There you have it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching everybody. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book. It's called WTF America. And well, doesn't that just say it all? It comes out officially this October, but you can pre-order your copy today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description below.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on former Trump and MAGA supporters speaking out against Donald Trump over gas prices, his wars, and his behavior. Meiselas shows their videos and reactions as they explain why they're breaking with Trump.

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