Trump is 'hurting his own people' — and MAGA is finally noticing: DC insider

Republican strategist and media consultant Rick Wilson says he keeps bumping into Trump voters who are wailing over the predicament their president keeps putting them in.

“You can't spin your way out of objective reality hitting people in the face [at the gas pump,” Wilson told “Jim Acosta Show” host Jim Acosta. “I’m out at the airport right now. And a couple hangers down I’m talking to [this guy]. Very MAGA. And he's like, ‘I can't believe what Trump did. I can't believe he did this. Because … I just paid $7 a gallon for aviation fuel for my airplane.’ I'm like, yeah, you did. What was it two weeks ago? ‘$4.35 [he says].’”

“Flying is not a cheap hobby, right? But this guy, I've talked to him a number of times — we’re civil with each other — but he was stunned. But he had to know this [was coming]. He had to know this,” Wilson added. “And now we’re all paying the price.”

Acosta cited clips of other Trump voters angrily renouncing their vote, saying “it seems to me right now people are just getting a whiff of the big old pile of poop that is in front of their face.”

Acosta added that the MAGA movement, now financially betrayed, is gearing up to smash its leader with the same finesse they used on former president Biden.

“I remember when Biden was in office, people would, you know, the little a—— wipes would stick the little stickers [of Biden] on the gas pumps that said, ‘I did this’ in our show. … And now you're starting to see the Donald Trump ones,” Acosta said.

Wilson went on to point out that farmers and U.S. manufacturers are still living Trump’s “bad, bad dream,” and many of them were also Trump voters in the last election.

“He's hurting his own people. And one more thing: … The young men and women who are going to fight this war and die when he puts troops on the ground in Iran, they're MAGA,” said Wilson, the co-founder of the conservative Lincoln Project. “More likely than not their families are MAGA, or they're MAGA. So, he's sending your kids to die for a war that wasn't planned, for a goal that he couldn't articulate if it bit him on the a——. And to help who? I mean, we have set the world economy and the world stability back a decade or more because of this insanity.”