Former Trump senior advisor says MAGA’s facing a reality 'that’s not what they voted for'

One of President Donald Trump's longtime loyalists sees the coalition that got him elected in 2024 breaking apart.

This week, podcaster Joe Rogan lambasted the president for his ICE operations that included shooting and killing a mother of three.

“I can also see the point of view of the people that say, ‘Yeah, but you don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be U.S. citizens that just don’t have their papers on them,’” Rogan said. “Are we really going to be the Gestapo? ‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”

Last September, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh that claimed American citizens are not being swept up in the raids, and if they were, they were immediately released. Rogan highlighted that it hasn't proved to be the case.

Conservative David Urban, who previously was a senior advisor to Trump's 2016 campaign, agreed with Democratic consultant Karen Finney during a CNN discussion about the matter.

"I think it is very pervasive, right?" Urban began. "Americans overwhelmingly voted — one of the president's strongest suits — Americans overwhelmingly voted for this president. If you look at the numbers and reasons given to secure the border and crack down on kind of the sieve that was the border under the Biden administration, and this administration effectively sealed that border up and did that."

At issue is that Trump "promised to go after the 'bad hombres' and the drug dealers and get those people out of America," Urban continued. There's support for that from Americans, but that hasn't been the focus of the administration.

"What there isn't support for, and the polling bears this out, this isn't David Urban's opinion, this is the polling that bears out that people do not want to see what you're seeing on your screen right now," Urban said. "They do not want to hear what Joe Rogan is saying. They don't want to see masked men, geared up like Delta Force, walking down the streets of America, asking people for their papers, throwing them on the ground, zip-tying people who are doing sheetrock, you know, gardeners, nannies. They don't want to see that. Right? That's not what they voted for."

He explained that it's one of the major reasons that Trump's approval is sinking so significantly. While he was once boasting high numbers on his handling of immigration, it is "becoming a weaker point," said Urban.

He went on to almost celebrate former President Barack Obama's administration and the way they handled immigration by stopping people at the border, but not going after people who were integrated into American society.

Urban said that someone must tell Trump that he's losing the voters.

"Look, when you lose Joe Rogan, right, you've got a problem," he added.