The "RNC Research" team on X drew attention with their profane reaction to a New York Times story still trying to make "fetch" happen -- that Trump is shedding "Ultra-MAGA" fans over the war in Iran. The headline deck was:
Once ‘Ultra MAGA’, Trump Supporters Fume About Iran on Truth Social
A growing chorus of disaffected Trump supporters is sounding off in the replies to his posts on the social media platform he founded.
RNC Research tweeted: "The f***ing losers at the Failing New York Times literally wrote a hit piece on President Trump citing a bunch of accounts with literally no followers as if it's actually a trend."
Times reporters Stuart A. Thompson and Steven Lee Myers began:
The people logging into Truth Social each day tend to count themselves among the most ardent supporters of President Trump and his MAGA movement. In recent weeks, though, even some in the echo chamber have turned against his actions in Iran.
Thousands of users on the social media platform, which Mr. Trump created in 2022, have responded to the president’s drumbeat of posts with a mix of frustration, disbelief and outrage.
They have written that they feel betrayed by the expanding war in Iran and ashamed when Mr. Trump used an expletive on Easter to make demands of the Iranian government. Some were so perplexed by his military interventions that one declared they “make zero sense.”
Right under this dark introduction, they show you that one of their examples, "Ultra_MAGA_King," has 92 followers.
They want this to sound like serious research: "An analysis by The New York Times of more than 40,000 comments on Mr. Trump’s posts showed the depths of the discontent over the war." And then more warnings:
The roiling sentiment reflects the challenging conditions facing the president and the Republican Party ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Mr. Trump recently recorded the worst approval rating yet during his second term.
Right under this graf, by contrast to the last user, the account "AuthenticAmerican" has a whopping 173 followers.
But my favorite was the third one, after the Times duo warned "Mr. Trump drew strong rebukes for his expletive-filled post on Easter Sunday, which threatened to destroy the country’s power plants and bridges and was punctuated with a mocking 'Praise be to Allah,'” and the account pictured had only 19 followers! These are not "influencers"! They are tiny righties.
I'm not a fan of the Easter message either, but the elitist media are soooo desperate to find the next Bill Kristol or Charlie Sykes in the Truth Social crowd. That is, if Kristol or Sykes had 19 followers.
