'Never been this bad': Young MAGA influencers say their income is 'tanking' due to Trump
The Bulwark’s Will Sommer reports young MAGA activists appear to be breaking away from their elders when it comes to their support for President Donald Trump.
This week, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones got into a spat with his younger employee Owen Shroyer while production staff on his InfoWars show played videos in the backdrop of exploding dams and Russian women. This was one of many recent instances of Jones storming into Shroyer’s “War Room” show and ordering him what to cover. Last week, Jones blasted onto the set and told him, essentially, to cheer up about the state of the country under Trump, according to Sommer.
Shroyer had had enough, announcing that he was quitting InfoWars and launching his own online show, to Jones’ fury.
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“… [F]or ten years Owen Shroyer has been sucking off the InfoWars teat,” Jones howled. “And you want to try to stab your mother in the back because you’re a big boy leaving the nest.”
“In his goodbye video, Shroyer said Jones was always pressing him to be more positive and supportive of Trump (and by extension, Israel),” writes Sommer. “By quitting InfoWars, Shroyer is getting out from under the outlet’s devotion to Trump.”
And Shroyer is hardly the only right-wing media personality moving on, reports Sommer.
“White nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes, for example, is already positioning himself to undermine Vice President JD Vance’s frontrunner status for the next Republican primary,” Sommer said. “Fuentes focused much of his time this summer on attacking Vance, who he called “an awkward, clumsy, weird freak … and declared himself ‘Never Vance’ on the grounds that Vance is ‘fat.’”
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And judging by the behavior of some in the right-wing media, Sommer said there are already hints that their audience’s attention “is drifting to non-Trump topics.”
Sommer said popular right-wing culture-war commentator Jeremy Hambly, who goes by the name “The Quartering,” convened “a livestreamed meeting with two right-wing personalities to complain that his views — and by extension, his income — were tanking.”
“It has never been this bad,” Hambly said. “And I’ve been producing content nonstop for maybe twelve years.”
A lame duck president doesn’t appear to draw the crowds like he once did, said Sommer, adding that pro-Trump commentator Tim Pool is also complaining about his dropping viewership. Maybe it’s something to do with a president “appearing at a press conference to demonstrate that he is still, in fact, alive,” said Sommer.
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As for Shroyer, Sommer reports in the two days since his departure from InfoWars, he’s raised “nearly $30,000 to finance his next venture, where he’ll presumably be more critical of Trump.”
Read the Bulwark report at this link.
