Trump’s MAGA Movement has Run Out of Steam

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted and Published on November 22, 2025

Donald Trump's approval rating is in the toilet and his MAGA Movement has run out of steam.

An Editorial Opinion

The collapse of Donald Trump’s MAGA Movement was predictable.  After assuming office in January, Trump appointed: (a) unqualified women to run the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, (b) a politically-connected dummy as Secretary of Education, and (c) a washed-up, womanizing, drunkard as Secretary of Defense.  Trump's other Cabinet members are either mindless cheerleaders or professional grifters.  White House staffers like Stephen Miller and Karoline Leavitt are simply insane sychopants.

Early on, Trump thrilled his MAGA base by immediately and vigorously crushing DEI policies and initiatives that benefitted women and historically disadvantaged racial minorities. He also vilified and terrorized America's tiny transgender community. Additionally, Trump rounded up and deported 527,000 migrants of color, whether they were in the U.S. legally, or not.

These Blitzkrieg actions were "red meat" for Trump's MAGA base, which cheers wildly whenever somebody who is disfavored by Trump, or them, is subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment.

Then came the foreign wars, the arbitrary and caprious tariffs, the endless court battles, a massive DOJ coverup in Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking case, an ongoing law enforcement coverup in Charlie Kirk's assassination case, DOJ’s retribution against Trump’s perceived political enemies, and Trump’s health issues (which are far worse than what the White House has publicly acknowledged).  None of these matters has gone well for Trump.

MAGA-Aligned Billionaires and Grifters are Living Large

Eleven months into Trump's second term, MAGA voters now realize that the easy victories in the culture wars did nothing to lift them out of their dire financial straits. In fact, while Trump is building a $300 million ballroom for White House parties and dinners, MAGA voters (and other Americans) are drowning from the increased cost of housing, healthcare, gas, utilities, insurance, prescription drugs, groceries, and childcare.  Millions of Trump supporters are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

In contrast, Trump’s circle of MAGA billionaires are living it up with gigantic tax breaks, humongous government contracts, lavish weddings, and over-the-top theme parties at Mar-a-Lago.  What is more, First Buddy Elon Musk just got a whopping $1 trillion salary package for serving as the CEO of Tesla. 

Trump voters have finally realized that they installed a government of the rich for the super-rich.  Every top official in the Trump administration is grifting at taxpayer's expense. 

For exampe, FBI Director, Kash Patel, is using the Bureau’s $60 million private jet to romance his 28-year-old gold-digging girlfriend, whom federal agents guard at taxpayers' expense.  Kristi Noem and her married boyfriend (Corey Lewandowski) are busy romancing each other and enriching themselves by funneling $200 million DHS contracts to private firms tied to them.  Trump’s family members are getting richer by cutting private business deals with foreign heads of state and business leaders who visit Trump at the White House.

Rank and file MAGA voters get nothing from Trump but “feel good” campaign rally speeches and political theater.  This is why Trump’s approval rating is in the toilet today.  The MAGA Movement has finally run out of steam.

Old MAGA Friends Betrayed, as New Friends Enrich the Trump Family

Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), who forced Trump’s hand on the Epstein files, announced Friday that she is resigning from Congress (effective January 5, 2026). Like many of Trump's old friends in the MAGA Movement, Greene finally realized that Donald Trump’s loyalty extents only to himself and that everybody else in his political world is expendable.  

Trump’s newest friends are: (a) Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (a former terrorist leader who killed Americans), (b) Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (a mass murderer who killed Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, dismembered his body, and dissolved his body parts in acid), (c) Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani (whose nation is a state-sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East), and (d) incoming New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (a socialist Democrat and Muslim American). 

These men now join: (a) Russia’s Vladimir Putin (a mass murderer and declared war criminal), (b) North Korea’s Kim Jong Un (a butcher of his own people), (c) El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele (a Central America con artist and crook), and (d) Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu (a declared war criminal and fugitive from ICC justice) as Trump’s most admired circle of geo-pollical leaders and friends.

MAGA’s America First agenda is over.  It has been replaced by a selfish, greedy, Trump First agenda that delights the President while he basks in the throes of dictators, terrorists, war criminals, and Banana Republic crooks.  Meanwhile, Trump’s MAGA voters need to start looking for bankruptcy lawyers. They have definitely been hoodwinked and betrayed.