Donald Trump has issued a lengthy rant on social media against former MAGA faithfuls he calls “losers.”
The president name-dropped prominent conservative media figures Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones, who have all criticized his war with Iran.
“They think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote on Truth Social late Thursday afternoon.
Kelly and Carlson, both former Fox News personalities, have lambasted Trump this week for his statements about Iran. Kelly told him to “f***ing shut up about that shit” after he threatened death to the Iranian people, and Carlson called Trump’s Easter message “vile on every level.”
Hours before announcing a two-week ceasefire with Iran Tuesday, Trump threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if the country didn’t reach a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil passageway in the Middle East.
Two days before that, Trump warned, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”
Carlson and Kelly were once fervent supporters of the president, praising Trump on the 2024 campaign trail.
During the Republican National Convention, Carlson said Trump was “no longer just a political party’s nominee” after he raised his fist in defiance following his first assassination attempt, “this was the leader of a nation.”
Kelly encouraged people at a rally in Pittsburgh in the lead-up to Election Day to vote for Trump. “I prefer a president who understands how to be strong and how to fight. I hope all of you do what I did last week, vote Trump and get 10 friends to vote Trump too.”
Trump claimed it was Carlson, Kelly and the rest of the lot he mentioned in Thursday’s post who should “see a good psychiatrist.”
He also bizarrely claimed that the first lady of France, Brigitte Macron, “is a far more beautiful woman than” Owens when griping about her.
He mentioned how “crazy” Owens accused “the Highly Respected First Lady of France of being a man, when she is not, and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit. Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it’s not even close!”
Owens is being sued by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife after the podcast host baselessly accused Brigitte of being transgender. She has “endorsed, repeated and published a series of verifiably false and devastating lies” about the French president and his wife, according to a lawsuit filed last year.
Owens questioned Trump’s cognitive ability in a reaction to his Truth Social post, writing on X, “It may be time to put Grandpa up in a home.”
The podcaster has said she is “embarrassed” that she campaigned for Trump in the 2024 election.
“I don’t regret voting for Donald Trump above [former Vice President] Kamala [Harris],” Owens told Piers Morgan Uncensored last June. “I think he was the better candidate — certainly a better candidate above [former President] Joe Biden. But what I will say is that he’s been a chronic disappointment, and I feel embarrassed that I told people to go vote for him.”
Trump then took a dig at “Bankrupt” Jones, “who says some of the dumbest things, and lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, ridiculously claiming it was a hoax.”
The families of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary sued Jones for defamation for calling the massacre a hoax, prompting his filing for bankruptcy.
He owes them roughly $1.5 billion in defamation judgments related to his statements about the 2012 massacre, in which a gunman fatally shot 26 people, including children between six and seven years old. That litigation is ongoing.
Jones had supported Trump early on in his political career. He had Trump on his InfoWars outlet in 2015, where Trump called Jones’ reputation “amazing,” according to PBS’ Frontline.
Trump claimed not to care about what these MAGA personalities have to say about him, but his Truth Social post was nearly 500 words long.
“They’re not ‘MAGA,’ they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA,” the president said.
“As President, I could get them on my side anytime I want to, but when they call, I don’t return their calls because I’m too busy on World and Country Affairs and, after a few times, they go ‘nasty,’ just like Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, but I no longer care about that stuff, I only care about doing right for our Country,” Trump continued, referring to his friend-turned-foe, former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Alex Woodward contributed to this report.
