President Donald Trump's MAGA supporters have started to turn on him, using his affinity for conspiracy theories to flip the script, a columnist reported on Friday.
Matt Lewis, an opinion contributor for The Hill, revealed how Trump's long-time use of 'extreme conclusions,' including his firm belief that the 2020 election was stolen, his claims that former President Barack Obama was not born in America (although Obama was born in Hawaii), and his belief that Haitian immigrants living in Ohio were eating cats and dogs, was haunting him.
"Regardless, we have entered a new and possibly ironic phase of the timeline: Trump is finally discovering what it’s like to be on the losing end of a conspiracy theory," Lewis wrote.
Now MAGA has started to unleash its own conspiracy theories targeted at the commander in chief as "the conspiratorial thinking about Trump has metastasized."
Not only has MAGA started to circulate the belief that Trump staged his own assassination attempt, some think he could be under "demonic possession," Lewis explained. Even Trump's recent photo op at the White House with "Doordash grandma" to talk about his "no tax on tips" policy has led to questions and theories that she could be a "paid actor" or "crisis actor" after it was discovered she had previously testified before Congress to support that policy.
"Taken together, these examples make it pretty clear that MAGA influencers haven’t stopped their conspiracy-theorism," Lewis wrote. "They have just finally migrated toward one of the most suspicious-looking supervillains in the nation — namely, Trump himself."
"It would be easy to lament all of this as evidence that Americans have lost trust in institutions and a common reality. And yes, that is a huge problem," Lewis wrote. "But it is also difficult to ignore the cosmic irony: Trump spent years encouraging the very style of thinking that now has people claiming he is the Antichrist who faked his own assassination attempt."