{"id":79303,"date":"2026-09-29T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/donald-trumps-maga-cult-is-finally-crumbling-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:54:59","slug":"donald-trumps-maga-cult-is-finally-crumbling-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/donald-trumps-maga-cult-is-finally-crumbling-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s Maga cult is finally crumbling | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the midterms looming, and after the Epstein files and the war on Iran, Trump superfans are losing faith in their lame duck president<\/p>\n<p>It took a dead child sex offender and a disastrous war to do it, but it looks as though the Maga faithful are slowly beginning to lose confidence in dear leader. As Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/6114659-trump-approval-record-low\/\">approval ratings drop<\/a> to record lows, some of his most fervent supporters are turning on him.<\/p>\n<p>See, as exhibit one, Trisha Hope, who was once a proud member of the Front Row Joes, a group of Trump superfans who follow the president to rallies around the country. They have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-front-row-joes-rallies-b3020863.html\">custom-made T-shirts<\/a>! They have branded baseball caps! They even have the attention of Trump himself, who frequently shouts out the group. He did once accidentally call them the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/remarks-campaign-rally-greensboro-north-carolina-0\">front row Jacks and Joes<\/a>\u201d, but who can expect a man of his calibre to pay attention to the plebs, eh?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/sep\/29\/donald-trump-maga-cult-finally-crumbling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the midterms looming, and after the Epstein files and the war on Iran, Trump superfans are losing faith in their lame duck president It took a dead child sex offender and a disastrous war to do it, but it looks as though the Maga faithful are slowly beginning to lose confidence in dear leader. &#8230; <a title=\"Donald Trump&#8217;s Maga cult is finally crumbling | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/29\/donald-trumps-maga-cult-is-finally-crumbling-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Donald Trump&#8217;s Maga cult is finally crumbling | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}