On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses the anger MAGA media are facing over Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump
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From the July 1, 2026, edition of MS NOW's Deadline: White House
NICOLLE WALLACE (HOST): So, Angelo, I want to come back to you on this point of treating everyone like chumps. Part of the DNA of the old Republican Party -- I'll admit I'm not in touch with any of its molecules or atoms anymore. But this pridefulness was sort of the legacy of the tough strain of -- and I think it comes up in the manosphere conversations we have. Trump is making them all look like lame weaklings by stealing from them. And Ossoff actually looks like the populist out there saving everyone from being scammed and robbed. The politics are their policy, right? Like you have to follow some of the schemes, but they're also the vibes of being treated like an idiot and then the vibes of being protected. This seems like the gravest, lethal sort of political line of attack against MAGA and Trumpism completely.
ANGELO CARUSONE (MEDIA MATTERS PRESIDENT): Completely. And I'm so glad you brought that up, because, you know, if you listen to some of the callers, they're talking about this more than the hosts are. So if you listen to The Megyn Kelly Show, people are calling in, complaining about the Trump sons. And, you know, that the Biden people were making money, but the Trump kids are, you know, not getting any scrutiny for the money they're making. There have been murmurs about this. Those are regrets. Those regrets have been mounting. And what you just noted with Senator Ossoff, and to the larger point of the story, regrets mean nothing unless they turn into defections. And they only turn into meaningful defections if you can give them another story and another narrative to latch on to. And that's exactly what he's doing, and that's what that narrative represents. And so you have to give them an alternative. Otherwise, people just simmer in regrets and it doesn't turn into anything actionable.