Donald Trump has issued a lengthy rant on social media against former MAGA faithfuls he calls “losers.”
The president name-dropped prominent conservative media figures Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones, who have all criticized his war with Iran.
“They think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote on Truth Social late Thursday afternoon.
Kelly and Carlson, both former Fox News personalities, have lambasted Trump this week for his statements about Iran. Kelly told him to “f***ing shut up about that sh*t” after he threatened death to the Iranian people, and Carlson called Trump’s Easter message “vile on every level.”
Hours before announcing a two-week ceasefire with Iran Tuesday, Trump threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if the country didn’t reach a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil passageway in the Middle East.
Two days before that, Trump warned, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”
Carlson and Kelly were once fervent supporters of the president, praising Trump on the 2024 campaign trail.
During the Republican National Convention, Carlson said Trump was “no longer just a political party’s nominee." The media figure added that after Trump raised his fist in defiance following his first assassination attempt, he "was the leader of a nation.”
Kelly encouraged people at a rally in Pittsburgh in the lead-up to Election Day to vote for Trump. “I prefer a president who understands how to be strong and how to fight. I hope all of you do what I did last week, vote Trump and get 10 friends to vote Trump too.”
Trump claimed Carlson, Kelly and the rest of those he mentioned in Thursday’s post should “see a good psychiatrist.”
He also bizarrely claimed that the first lady of France, Brigitte Macron, “is a far more beautiful woman” than Owens when griping about her.
The president mentioned how “crazy” Owens accused “the Highly Respected First Lady of France of being a man, when she is not, and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit. Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it’s not even close!”
Owens is being sued by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte after the podcast host baselessly accused Brigitte of being transgender. Owens has “endorsed, repeated and published a series of verifiably false and devastating lies” about the French president and his wife, according to a defamation lawsuit filed last year.
Owens questioned Trump’s cognitive ability in a reaction to his Truth Social post Thursday, writing on X, “It may be time to put Grandpa up in a home.”
The podcaster has said she is “embarrassed” that she campaigned for Trump in the 2024 election.
“I don't regret voting for Donald Trump above [former Vice President] Kamala [Harris],” Owens told Piers Morgan Uncensored last June. “I think he was the better candidate — certainly a better candidate above [former President] Joe Biden. But what I will say is that he's been a chronic disappointment, and I feel embarrassed that I told people to go vote for him.”
Trump then took a dig at “Bankrupt” 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.”
The families of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary sued Jones for defamation for calling the massacre a hoax, prompting his filing for bankruptcy.
He owes them roughly $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to his statements about the 2012 massacre, in which a gunman fatally shot 26 people, including children between six and seven years old. That litigation is ongoing.
Jones had supported Trump early on in his political career. He hosted Trump on his InfoWars outlet in 2015, where Trump called Jones’ reputation “amazing,” according to PBS’ Frontline.
Jones responded to Trump’s post in a video on X Thursday saying, “I’m just so sad that whatever’s happened to him has totally changed the man he once was. He did so much good.”
“Trump’s got big problems folks and I am just so concerned about this country and the world,” Jones added, as he continued to hit out against the war in Iran. “At the end of the day, I just feel sorry for him and pray that God touches his heart and soul and free him from the demonic influences that he’s under.”
Trump claimed in his Thursday rant to not care about what these MAGA personalities have to say about him, but his Truth Social post was nearly 500 words long.
“They’re not ‘MAGA,’ they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA,” the president said.
“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,” Trump continued, referring to his friend-turned-foe, former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Greene was one of Trump’s most loyal supporters in Congress before the two had a public falling out last fall over several issues, including foreign affairs and the releasing of the Epstein files.
The Georgia Republican later resigned from the House of Representatives, saying, ‘I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.’
Greene responded to Trump’s attacks in a post on X late Thursday, saying “President Trump has gone mad as he wages war against Iran, a broken campaign promise.
“I fought alongside Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones to help get Trump elected. And now he goes off on a rambling rant attacking all of us in one post. We NEVER changed, Trump did. AMERICA FIRST!!!” she posted, along with an emoji of an American flag.
Alex Woodward contributed to this report.
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