MAGA Mob Turns On Their Messiah

When even MAGA’s most loyal conspiracy peddlers turn on Trump over the Epstein files, it’s not justice they crave; it’s revenge for being played like fools.

Guest article by Michael Cohen

Let me tell you something I learned the hard way: when the cult starts turning on the cult leader, it ain’t because they grew a conscience. It’s because the grift is starting to stink.

President Trump has made a career out of one thing: dodging consequences. He dodged draft boards, bankruptcies, tax audits, and thanks to sycophants like I once was, he dodged accountability. But the one thing this man can’t dodge forever is the truth. And right now, the Epstein file debacle is dragging it out of the shadows like a blacklight in a crime scene. Even the conspiracy addicts—the flag-draped, MAGA-merch-wearing foot soldiers of Trumpism—are starting to see it for what it is.

But don’t mistake this for some kind of awakening. It’s not morality driving this backlash; it’s buyer’s remorse.

Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and professional internet reactionary, was once clinking glasses with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Now he’s ranting like a jilted lover, screaming “F--- you!” into a camera while holding up a MAGA hat like it’s radioactive waste. Why? Because Trump dared to call the Epstein hysteria a “Democrat hoax.” That’s the betrayal. Not the lies. Not the photo ops with Epstein. Not even the fact that Attorney General Pam Bondi once claimed the “client list” was on her desk, only for the DOJ to later say it doesn’t exist. No—what broke the spell was that Trump didn’t deliver the fantasy.

These people aren’t outraged that the truth is ugly. They’re outraged that it’s boring. And Trump—once the ringmaster of their paranoid circus—is now shrugging his shoulders and walking away from the fire he lit.

For years, these MAGA loyalists built an alternate reality around the Epstein story. It wasn’t just about exposing pedophiles; it was about confirming their worldview: that the world is run by liberal elites, and Trump is the lone warrior standing in their way. They didn’t just believe this; they needed it to be true. It was the moral justification for their rage, their fanaticism, their entire identity.

So when Trump brushed it off as nothing more than “bullshit,” they didn’t feel betrayed; they felt humiliated. Because in that moment, the lie stopped working. And without the lie, what’s left? A bunch of angry, gullible people who now have to face the fact that they’ve been screaming into the void for years—and no one’s coming to rescue them.

Even Alex Jones—yes, the guy who thinks water turns frogs gay—is now warning Trump that he’s making the “worst mistake” of his life. He’s not saying this out of principle. He’s saying it because Trump is breaking the one rule of grift: never make your marks feel stupid. And Trump did just that. He didn’t just dismiss the Epstein files. He called his own supporters suckers for buying in.

These people were fine being lied to—so long as the lie made them feel special. But now they’ve been lumped in with the “fake news” crowd they’ve spent years mocking. The gaslighters have become the gaslit.

Candace Owens chimed in too, accusing Trump of “gaslighting the public” and assuming his supporters are too dumb to see it. She’s not wrong. But the irony is thick, because for years, she played the same game. She knew the truth didn’t matter. The spectacle did.

What we’re seeing now is the inevitable collapse of a movement built entirely on delusion. The MAGA faithful weren’t following Trump because he was honest. They followed him because he lied to them in the most flattering way possible. He told them they were the real America, the forgotten patriots, the chosen ones. And they ate it up like it was gospel.

But lies have shelf lives. And this one expired the moment Trump stopped playing along. The Epstein story was supposed to be the final revelation, the moment when everything made sense. Instead, it exposed just how far these people have drifted from reality—and how little Trump actually cares about keeping the fantasy alive.

They wanted a reckoning. They wanted the names, the arrests, the catharsis. Instead, they got a shrug and a Truth Social post calling them disloyal fools.

So now the movement is eating itself. Fuentes, Jones, Owens—they’re all screaming at the man they once worshipped, not because they suddenly value truth, but because he stopped telling them what they wanted to hear. They weren’t betrayed by Trump. They were betrayed by their own need to believe in him.

Let me be clear: this was never about justice. It was always about projection. And now that the mirror is cracked, the image is falling apart. There’s no plan. No hero. Just a lot of angry voices, screaming into the void they helped create.

That’s the sound of a cult realizing there’s no rapture coming. And for once, they might be right.

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