Alex Wagner: Trump’s MAGA Base is "Mad at Daddy"
The Best People with Nicolle Wallace
MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But I genuinely think it's a betrayal of the isolationist policy that he wrote into office on, right? And the notion of betrayal is so piercing right now, I think in the wake of the Epstein stuff, this idea that you sold us a bill of goods, you are not who you said you were going to be. This, I think, war represents, it ties into the Epstein betrayal. It's its own sort of betrayal. And that's what's riled. |
| 0:21.3 | Magas hackles so much, or at least some MAGA folks. It's an emotional sense that, you know, |
| 0:26.6 | Daddy, Daddy said something to us, and then he lied to us, and then he lied again to us. And we are |
| 0:33.6 | mad at Daddy. |
| 0:37.3 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of The Best People podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | This week's guest is one of my favorite people. |
| 0:44.2 | She truly is one of the best people. |
| 0:46.4 | On those days that I'm not quite enthused about anchoring two hours about the destruction |
| 0:52.0 | Trump has wrought in |
| 0:54.1 | America. My team will say, |
| 0:56.5 | guess what, Wags is on set, |
| 0:58.2 | and it resets the whole day for me. |
| 1:00.1 | So without any further ado, |
| 1:01.6 | the host of Runaway Country, |
| 1:03.9 | my dear friend Alex Wagner. |
| 1:06.1 | Hi. |
| 1:06.9 | Hi, my friend. |
| 1:16.1 | Thank you. Hi, my friend. That's a true story. |
| 1:17.4 | When I am feeling like, we're going to start with a war and then do the end of the rule of law. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm so scared. |
| 1:24.6 | And then do anti-Semitism. |
| 1:25.2 | And then we're going to do the people dying in detention, and they're like, |
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