'This will come as shocking news': Trump's longtime friend wants nothing to do with MAGA

President Donald Trump's longtime friend Piers Morgan said he wants nothing to do with the MAGA movement.

The two have been friends for nearly 20 years, in what Morgan describes as not an “easy” friendship, The Daily Beast reported on Thursday. He rejected any association with the MAGA movement after right-wing influencer Laura Loomer described him as a "MAGA supporter."

“I think this will come as shocking news to actual MAGA supporters,” Morgan said in a statement to Mediaite.

Piers called himself “an old school non-woke liberal centrist."

Morgan and Trump became friends in 2008 after he won The Celebrity Apprentice.

He claimed it was "a victory he once admitted came from behaving in the way the then–real estate developer, and now president, wanted him to," The Beast reported.

Despite their initially warm relationship, Morgan has become increasingly critical of Trump in recent years, particularly after the January 6 Capitol riots and Trump's refusal to accept the 2020 election results.

Their relationship has been characterized by periods of intense camaraderie and public mutual admiration, followed by sharp public disagreements and Morgan's increasingly vocal criticism of Trump's political behavior.

Piers has called him a “very loyal friend in many ways,” although Trump can be “impetuous and irrational.”