MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace on December 30, 2025 (Image: Screengrab via MS NOW / YouTube)
This year, many of the so-called "manosphere" influencers who boosted President Donald Trump in 2024 are now distancing themselves from the administration. MS NOW Nicolle Wallace took note and aired their 2024 and 2025 comments in succession.
During the Tuesday episode of her show "Deadline: White House," Wallace pointed out that "many people who might have associated themselves with Donald Trump even this time last year are already having some second thoughts and saying so publicly." She listed podcaster Theo Von as one example, who called out the administration for using a video of him without permission in a social media post they later took down. Von's one-eighty was notable, as he hosted Trump on his podcast in 2024 and attended his inauguration last January.
"[Von] isn't the only manosphere personality to — shall we say — evolve in his views about Donald Trump," Wallace said, before playing a supercut of several influencers turning on Trump. The first clip was of podcast host Andrew Schultz, who exclaimed that "nail polish is done" for men after Trump's 2024 victory. However, he later said this fall that he "voted for none of this."
"He's doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for," Schultz said. "I want him to stop the wars. He's funding them. I want him to shrink spending, he's increasing it."
Wallace also played a clip of podcaster Joe Rogan mocking former President Joe Biden's age in 2024, and contrasting that with Trump, saying: "The dude just didn't age. But in a December 2025 interview with comedian Tom Segura, Rogan commented that Trump needed "a right-hand man" due to his advanced age. Segura agreed, and added: "He's also losing it, too."
"Well, I think everybody does when you get to a certain age," Rogan said.
Wallace then aired a clip of podcaster Shawn Ryan interviewing Trump in August of 2024 and telling him "I wish you the best of luck." But in November, Ryan changed his tune on the president.
"We didn't really have much of an option here," Ryan said. "... Nothing I voted for happened."
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