Is Trump Losing MAGA's Loyalty? - The Friday AM Quickie 11/14/25
Best wishes to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who's in the hospital with an incurable neurological ailment. I'm out for the weekend, Whitney's back Monday. - Corey
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THE BIG NEWS
Republicans Are Getting More Comfortable Talking Smack About Donald Trump
NBC News and the Washington Post report that Donald Trump's mishandling of the economy, combined with the latest revelations about his close relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, not only threaten to suppress Republican turnout in next year's midterm elections, but are loosening his grip over the neo-fascist movement he founded. One in three Republicans disapprove of Trump's economic performance. And a majority of Republicans do not approve of how he's handled the Epstein scandal.
"Charlie Kirk was the last person who could walk into the Oval Office and speak on behalf of the base," the loathsome influencer Mike Cernovich complains, per NBC. "Now it's all donors," reveling in their decadence at Mar-a-Lago theme parties.
Unofficial national security adviser Laura Loomer, meanwhile, tells the Post "that the MAGA base 'has every right to feel disappointed'" over Trump's freshly stated support for H1B guest worker visas.
In the same vein, rightwing hatchet man Christopher Rufo observes that Trump's idea to allow 50-year mortgages is "not good, unless you're a bank."
And Trump has gone to war with his former ally, star GOP fundraiser and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is among the dozens of Republicans expected to vote with House Democrats next week to demand the release of all the government's files on Epstein. As Greene touts herself as the true champion of Trump's "America First" slogan, Trump seems baffled that anyone would challenge him. "She's a nice woman, but I don't know what happened. She's lost her way, I think," he told reporters this week. Sad.
"Don't forget MAGA was my idea," Trump scolded Fox News host Laura Ingraham this week during a sometimes-tense interview. "I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else." Maybe, maybe not – but he's also pushing 80, has trouble staying awake, and requires more and more serious medical attention. It's only natural that Republicans would start thinking about what's next for their party.
MORE STORIES TO WATCH
The Clampdown: Charlotte, North Carolina Braces for Fed Invasion This Weekend
- Result of Outrageous Fed Raid on Chicago Apartment Building: Zero Charges, Zero Evidence of Gang Activity, Innocents Traumatized "I was left without clothes. Without a bed. Without my daughter's crib. And they took my partner away from me," says a Venezuelan woman deported with her daughter following the Sept. 30 raid, during which federal agents rappelled down from a Blackhawk helicopter. via ProPublica and the Chicago Sun-Times.
- Federal Judge Appointed By Biden Rules New Jersey Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver Must Face Charges for 'Interfering' with ICE "Video shows that she was involved in a brief but explosive clash with masked immigration agents, who came out from behind the facility's gates to arrest [Newark]’s mayor, Ras J. Baraka, on a trespassing charge." via the New York Times and ABC News.
- 'Plain Wrong': State Department Labels European Antifascist Groups as 'Foreign Terrorist Organisations' The targeted banners are Antifa Ost in Germany, the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front in Italy, and the Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense groups in Greece. via the Guardian, the AP, and Al Jazeera.
- Some South Korean Workers Return to Hyundai EV Plant in Georgia Raided By ICE But many others among the 475 workers shackled in chains during the September ICE raid are declining to return to the US so long as they can find work in a safer country. via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the New York Times.
Israeli Settlers Walk Free After Torching West Bank Mosque
Israeli police released three suspects after Jewish settlers set fire to the Hajja Hamida Mosque in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank yesterday. The settlers also burned copies of the Quran and defaced the mosque's walls with racist graffiti, as well as a message apparently taunting an Israeli general who denounced the violence. The Associated Press reports:
Israeli officials have sought to cast settler violence as the work of a few extremists. But Palestinians and rights groups say that the violence is widespread and carried out by settlers across the territory, with impunity from Israel's far-right government, led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who hasn't commented on the surge in violence.
Meanwhile in New York, Chinese, Russian, and Arab delegates to the United Nations are seeking to nix Donald Trump's plan for a "Board of Peace" to govern Gaza, chaired by Trump himself. As Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares write for Al Jazeera, Trump's plan would represent "an overt return to the British mandate of 100 years ago, with the only change being that the US would hold the mandate rather than the United Kingdom."
QUICKEST QUICKIES
- 'We Are Watching You': Epstein Survivors Tell Congress to Release the Files Meanwhile in Texas, several inmates at the minimum-security federal prison in Bryan who raised concerns about Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer there, in violation of Bureau of Prisons policy, were themselves transferred to a higher-security prison in Houston. via NBC News, CNN, and the New York Times.
- Justice Department Sues California to Stop New Congressional Map Overwhelmingly Approved By Voters "Three Republican-led states — Texas, along with Missouri and North Carolina — have not faced federal legal action after revamping district lines following Trump's call for new maps to expand GOP numbers in the House." via the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times.
- BBC Apologizes to Trump Over Jan. 6 Footage, But Refuses to Pay His $1 Billion Defamation Shakedown "They actually changed my January 6 speech, which was a beautiful speech, which was a very calming speech, and they made it sound radical," Trump complained on Fox News last night. via the New York Times and BBC News.
- Red Cup Rebellion: More Than 1,000 Starbucks Workers Strike at 65 Stores Meanwhile in Missouri and Illinois, thousands of Boeing machinists ended a three-month strike after securing a five-year deal with wage hikes from management. via the AP, The American Prospect, and MR.
SOME NUMBER
$500,000
That's how much Republican senators will pay themselves for each time the Justice Department obtained their phone records as part of its investigation into Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election, likely earning many of them millions of dollars for facilitating a crime against democracy. Per HuffPost, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has signed off on the scheme as part of the deal to end the government shutdown.
ON THE SHOW TODAY
11/14: Happy Friday! Sam will be hosting solo; the guest will be Heather 'Digby' Parton, contributing writer at Salon.com and publisher of the Hullabaloo blog.
DON'T MISS MR CLIPS
Jim Breuer Goes Full Batcrap
He may well be the reigning king of monetizing a personal pathology.
Trump's Epstein Problem Just Got WAY WORSE
Karoline Leavitt isn't getting the job done. Trump should just get out there in front of the cameras and talk for hours about all this without a script, like he used to.
PARTING WORDS
"If he was some kind of narcoterrorist, then why are we living in misery instead of a mansion?”
-- Katerine Hernández, who mothered three children with Alejandro Carranza, a Columbian fisherman killed two months ago by a US military strike on his boat, refuting Donald Trump's claim that he was a "confirmed" Venezuelan narcoterrorist in an interview with the New York Times. A secret Justice Department memo has declared the strikes legal based on Trump's fabricated claims to be fighting cartels, the Times reports. US strikes on civilian boats have killed at least 80 people since early September, including another four people on Wednesday, and the most advanced US aircraft carrier will reach Venezuelan waters in the coming days.
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