U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 23, 2026. (REUTERS)
President Donald Trump is losing supporters over his erratic behavior, especially declaring a war against Iran — and one reporter said many former supporters are now much more than merely indifferent.
“These Republicans are now his active political enemies,” CNN's Zachary B. Wolf reported on Wednesday. “The turn has not occurred in all or even most of the GOP, but those who have evolved have done so dramatically.
Wolf included as examples conservative commentator Tucker Carlson admitting earlier this week that he remains “tormented” by supporting Trump, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) saying “Humbly, I’m sorry” in November and Candace Owens admitting in June she was “embarrassed” for backing Trump after he ordered the bombing of Iran.
“Megyn Kelly didn’t apologize, but she did lash out at Trump this month over his Iran war and his feud with the pope in recent weeks,” Wolf reported. “Both Greene and Owens, along with fellow serial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, have suggested Trump’s Cabinet should consider the 25th Amendment as a means to remove him from office. To [do] so would require Cabinet members to revolt against him, which seems fanciful at the moment.”
While Trump has previously suggested that Republicans in the base still overwhelmingly support him, Wolf’s reporting indicated that this is not the case.
“Republicans were effectively all in on Trump not long after he took office for his second term; CNN polling clocked Trump at 92 percent approval among Republicans in March of 2025,” Wolf wrote. “... By this March, approval among Republicans dropped to 80 percent and strong approval dropped to 43 percent in CNN polling.”
He added, “For what it’s worth, Trump has attacked the MAGA supporters who turned on him, and has said that he gets to decide what the movement’s priorities are.” Yet that may not help him as he continues to struggle with tariffs, inflation, an unpopular war and a number of scandals.
“CNN’s Adam Cancryn reported Tuesday the White House could shape its midterm strategy around trying to convince voters Democrats would be worse if they were in charge,” Wolf wrote. “It seems unlikely Carlson, Greene or Owens is going to be voting for a Democrat any time soon, but the White House probably shouldn’t count on their support as election season draws near.”
In December, Boebert accused Trump of denying Colorado an important infrastructure project to retaliate against her for working to disclose files about his late friend, the child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, in November.
“… Trump decided to veto … a bipartisan bill that passed both the House and Senate unanimously,” Boebert told Colorado news reporter Kyle Clark. “Why? Because nothing says ‘America First’ like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in Southeast Colorado, many of whom enthusiastically voted for him in all three elections… I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability. Americans deserve leadership that puts people over politics.”
She added, “I thought the [Trump] campaign was about lowering costs and cutting red tape.”
The bill Trump vetoed would have provided clean drinking water to the eastern Colorado communities between Colorado’s Pueblo and Lamar cities. His veto of the “Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit (AVC) Act,” which passed unanimously in the House and Senate, was Trump’s first veto in his entire second term.
