A former Trump White House insider revealed during a podcast interview on Wednesday that the "surface-level" cracks that have emerged within the MAGA movement lately have become "foundational cracks" as President Donald Trump "races" toward lame-duck status.
Anthony Scaramucci, who served as Trump's communications director for 11 days during the first administration, discussed the impact the Jeffrey Epstein files and the approaching 2026 midterm election is having on Trump and his MAGA base during an interview on The Daily Beast's podcast.
Scaramucci claimed the two issues present the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
"He's a lame duck, and he's racing now towards the midterm elections and his lame duck status, and his party hates him," Scaramucci said. "And so anybody who thinks the party likes him doesn't understand the party. That could be the donors who hold their nose and give him money, or that could be the political class that leaves them in Washington."
"And I submit to you that if you're inside Trump's inner orbit, you hate the guy's guts," he added. "He knows that, you know that.
But there's a dance because you're afraid of him, because he's intimidating you, because of his political prowess and his media presence. He's sort of the big furry sasquatch of social media."
"You don't want Bigfoot in your a--, right? So you're afraid of him, but you hate his guts," he continued. "And the time has come now where the surface cracks are becoming more structural and foundation cracks."
