Nick Fuentes: In 2024, Trump “was everything to everybody because he needed every vote, every nickel, every dime to get elected by any cost to get out of jail”
Fuentes: “All the things that he's done, remaking the Oval Office, the Rose Garden, turning it into a patio. The benefits are being conferred upon him and in exchange, the benefits are being conferred upon the oligarchs. The people are holding the bag.”
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From the March 27, 2026, edition of America First, streamed on Rumble
NICK FUENTES (HOST): In 2016, the movement was premised on the idea that it was a populist takeover leveled against the deep state. It was a loaded gun pointed at the deep state and it was the people and our leader Trump, but a lot has changed. In 2016, 60% of the donations were small dollar donors. Now it's the inverse. In ’16 Trump said, “I'm not taking super PAC money. I'm not taking billionaire money. I'm a self-founder. I'm going to fund my own campaign. I don't have donors with me. It's me and my son, Barron, and that's it. It's me and my supporters.” That was what the Trump rally was about. It was people power. He doesn't have the money. He doesn't have the establishment, the endorsements, but he had that people power, the excitement, the enthusiasm. That's what he represented.
That's not the case anymore. And I tried to tell you that in 2024. It's different now. It's different. It's not the same. The value proposition is completely different. That was not the message in ’24. And no one could say that it was. In ’24, the message was I'm running to get out of jail. I need as much money as possible. I need to be everything to everyone. Some people think we're getting mass deportations. Other people think we're stapling green cards to diplomas. Some people think they're getting the West Bank in a war with Iran. Other people think we're getting no new wars. Am I wrong?
In 2024, he needed to be everything to everybody. That is how you get your generational coalition because everybody was projecting onto him what they wanted. And that's why people in Dearborn, Michigan read a rally with him thinking he was going to free Palestine. But then Trump would go to Mar-a-Lago and hug Netanyahu, who believed Trump was going to deliver to him the West Bank. And Trump would go to a rally or the RNC where they're holding up signs that say mass deportations. Then he would go on the All-In Podcast and say, “We're going to staple green cards to the diplomas of every foreign student that comes here.” He was everything to everybody because he needed every vote, every nickel, every dime to get elected by any cost to get out of jail.
And so he did. And then the chips fell where they would. Cabinet members were picked and from then on, we knew what we were going to get. It was only a matter of time. And now here we are. And these things are happening, they're deep -- It started early. We got the Big Beautiful Bill, everyone hated it. We got the Epstein cover-up, everyone hated it. We got that they tried to sneak in that AI moratorium on regulations, everyone hated it. Now we're getting a war with Iran, everyone hates it. Then people say, “Mr. Trump, you're squandering the coalition.” Trump says, “The coalition, the coalition, I got out of jail. What are you talking about?”
He is getting the benefits conferred upon him by the presidency. He is getting legacy. He is building up his legacy for the history books. He's building a new White House next to the old one. He renamed the Gulf Of Mexico, the Gulf Of America, literally leaving his mark on the map. He has these ambitions of territorial expansion, remaking the world in his image and so on and so forth. All the things that he's done, remaking the Oval Office, the Rose Garden, turning it into a patio. The benefits are being conferred upon him and in exchange, the benefits are being conferred upon the oligarchs. The people are holding the bag. You see? So no, the generational coalition wasn't squandered. It was a spook. It wasn't real.