Trump can't stop MAGA from obsessing about the Epstein files

Donald Trump is once again angry, but this time his ire is directed at a new audience: his own MAGA supporters.

Donald Trump is once again angry, but this time his ire is directed at a new audience: his own MAGA supporters.

In a blistering post on Truth Social on Wednesday morning, Trump continued to push his backers to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein, an issue that has driven what appears to be one of the most significant rifts between him and the political movement he built.

“Let those weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work,” he wrote. “Don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore.”

Trump later told reporters in the Oval Office that he had “lost faith in certain people” because “they got duped by the Democrats” on the issue — even though it was Republicans who primarily pushed for more on the Epstein files.

Trump’s message Wednesday was a significant escalation, reflecting that his supporters aren’t all following his lead and adopting his messaging as they usually do. It’s also left MAGA-aligned media at a loss of what to do, torn between much of the base that continues to call for more documents related to Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender, and Trump, who insists they should drop the issue.