President Donald Trump's MAGA movement is splintering, as far-right commentator Tucker Carlson unveils his own 10-point plan for America that, despite being ultranationalist and isolationist, repudiates certain elements of the Trump agenda.

But at the end of the day, former GOP strategist Rick Wilson told MS NOW anchor Eugene Daniels, it's all still just the same old slop that the GOP has shoveled ever since Trump took office.

Daniels asked Wilson whether he thinks Tucker made "some good points," noting that there are rumors he could run a third-party campaign for president and fracture the right further. "How do you think Republicans would deal with this?"

Wilson said that "if that manifesto had come out from anyone else," it might have had at least a few points people took seriously even if they don't agree with the entire thing. "But there's an old thing in advertising called the dog food rule. And no matter how pretty the package is, if the dog food tastes bad, you're not going to buy it."

The upshot, he continued, is that Carlson is "trying to package up some other dog food here that most Americans won't accept, and even most Republicans are going to have some variation on."

It's certainly a populist agenda, Wilson noted, touching on things like ending war, lifting farmers and factory workers, and reining in White House corruption. But "while this touches some of that populism in the Trump era, it also runs into the reality that this party has been transformed by Donald Trump in ways that make it a cult of personality in ways that make it much meaner and much, much more prone to cruelty and conspiracy theories."

And the Carlson manifesto, he added, "sounds like it came out of a focus group designed to get center-right voters. But what's behind it ... may not be the same dog food."

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President Donald Trump threatened to take State Department paintings home during a mining roundtable Friday, breaking off mid-speech to size up the room's art and declare, "I'm taking it."

The event was held in the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room at the State Department, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted nearly 200 mining executives.

The room holds more than 5,000 pieces of American art and artifacts — gifts from private citizens — valued at over $90 million, according to the State Department.

Trump opened his remarks by touting the administration's mining investments, according to a White House transcript.

"I'm delighted to be here at the Department of State to announce some of the largest ever investments in American mining," Trump said.

The president seemed to drift off topic mid-speech as he noticed valuables in the room.

"It's a beautiful building, but — you know, I look at — the president's allowed to remove things from any building, and I'm liking the chandeliers," Trump said. "I really — I like those Corinthian columns, but I don't know. Cutting them out would be not good."

"Those are beautiful columns, but I'm allowed to do it," he added. "Every once in a while, I'll come in here and grab a painting and put it at the Oval Office. Right? But not too much."

Later in the event, Rubio tried to thank the president, and accidentally pointed him toward a target.

"Thank you for coming to the State Department. We like this room a lot too, and obviously don't look back. There's a painting up here. Just don't — uh-oh," Rubio said.

"I like that. That's a good one. I'm taking it with me," Trump replied.

"I shouldn't have said anything," Rubio said.

The White House said Trump announced more than $2 billion in mining investments and $180 million in mining school grants at the event.