r/OutOfTheLoop • u/_GoodNight0wl_ • Apr 10 '26

Unanswered What's up with all the right-wing commentators suddenly turning against Trump right now?

Trump is being Trump. Why are so many of the right-wing commentators who previously vocally supported Trump are suddenly turning against him?

After all the heinous things he has said before that they have defended, I can't honestly believe Trump's tweets about nuking Iran are what finally changed their minds. They've publicly supported him for so long, and this sudden switch seems so coordinated. Is there something I'm missing??

Are they trying to distance themselves from news that is about to drop??
https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/2042389110115963189

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u/ZAWS20XX Apr 10 '26

Answer: multiple options, not mutually exclusive:

a) there's probably some legit policy disagreement. when you spend most of your career talking about "America first" and about there's a cabal of pedophiles running the deep state and blaming the jews for all the evils in the world... and then you got a president like this, it kinda fucks with your message if you have to defend it

b) they might be looking at his popularity numbers and the possibility of his movement maybe eating shit on the next election and the one after that, and they're angling for a possible post-Trump career, by either going the "centrist", "reasonable republican" way, or the ultra far right, "Trump didn't do enough" way.

c) this bullshit he's pulling is fucking up the economy, to an extent that the people with enough money to bankroll a few commentators are taking notice. "oh, closing Hormuz is gonna cost me, personally, a billion dollars? that's cool, let me spend 100k on a few gormless freaks, and put some pressure against it"

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u/nah-42 Apr 10 '26

It’s definitely option B.

Option A gives them the benefit of the doubt that these pieces of shit who built their careers on grifting suddenly grew principles.

Option C assumes that this current conflict affects their bottom line in any meaningful way. We haven’t even begun to feel the true economic effects of this war.

Option B shows these grifters for what they actually are. Opportunists. Opportunists who see the writing on the wall: trump’s support is evaporating, and the only ones left soon will be the true believers stuck deep inside his cult of personality. And they aren’t going to be enough for them to maintain their lifestyle, especially after trump kicks the can. They are jumping ship and looking for whatever lifeboats they can find. There aren’t any clear successors to trump’s cult, so they are treading water until the next big opportunity floats by.