Washington, June 19, 2025 – In a White House that currently resembles a petting zoo with suspected rabies more than a presidential command center, a discreet damage control operation is underway: Donald Trump is trying to bring the fragmented MAGA community back in line with quiet messages and secret phone calls. It is an attempt to extinguish a party-internal wildfire that he himself lit with gasoline. While the world stage is burning outside – quite literally, thanks to the escalation in the Israel-Iran conflict – it is also burning inside the engine room of the American right. The cracks run deep. Of all people, Trump’s most loyal mouthpieces are now lashing out against him: Tucker Carlson rages about Zionist warmongering, Marjorie Taylor Greene says she feels betrayed by God, Candace Owens calls it a cowardly relapse into neocon arrogance in livestreams – and Alex Jones urges total MAGA resistance against Deep State Trump on InfoWars. The MAGA universe is shattered, the conspiracists are quarreling among themselves, the leader stands without a following.
But now movement is stirring in the chaos. According to an leak, the White House is quietly trying to reestablish contact with exactly those dissenters – not officially, but quietly, directly, personally. A senior insider with access to Trump’s schedule reports that several video conferences with key figures of the patriotic right were set up in the past 48 hours to clear up misunderstandings. The message: Trump may be strategically isolated, but spiritually he’s still on your side. The deployment of American drones in the Negev Desert is not a break with America First but rather a small detour – a sort of divinely guided side path on the way to nationalist salvation. In one case, the president is said to have left a message consisting of only two words: Trust me. Handwritten, in red marker.
But the attempt to end the civil war within his own fan base with whispers seems halfhearted. Trump’s dual communication strategy – military commander-in-chief on the outside, Holy Spirit-led anti-establishment preacher on the inside – no longer appears to resonate. Many of his former allies have long defected to the competition, whether to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the libertarian wing around JD Vance, or to militant Telegram channels with biblical background noise. What remains is a president who, for the first time, realizes that not everything in his own camp is infinitely malleable. The MAGA cult is not falling apart because the opposition is too strong – but because the guru no longer speaks clearly. And because even the most loyal voices eventually start asking: If we are fighting the system – why do we now behave exactly like it? And so a fog of slogans, style breakdowns, and spiritual damage control hangs over the White House. The president is still fighting, yes. But no longer just against Iran, no longer just against the press – now against the echo of his own words. And that echo no longer sounds like victory, but like doubt.
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