Dorks at Disney
He’s got a wand, but why isn’t Lindsey Graham more fabulous?
It’s been a month since President Donald Trump launched a war with Iran and sparked a MAGA civil war. With Trump indicating that he has no plans to stop the war in Iran, the civil war is only growing more expansive and destructive.
Since last week…
Joe Rogan claims MAGA is filled with dorks, and the VP responds.
Lindsey Graham’s trip to Disney World draws scrutiny from across the internet.
Candace Owens’ theories about Charlie Kirk’s assassination find renewed popular support — and scrutiny.
Dan Bongino and Ivan Raiklin feud online over a Joe Kent-related confrontation in person.
Mentioned: Dave Smith, Joe Rogan, Tulsi Gabbard, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Benny Johnson, Lindsey Graham, Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, Sneako, Nick Fuentes, Stew Peters, Brett Cooper, WallStreetMav, Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, Jimmy Dore, Brandon Tatum, Laura Loomer, Joe Kent, Dan Bongino, Ivan Raiklin, Joseph Philip Daniel, Nate Tuck, Owen Shroyer, Stewart Rhodes.
Dark MAGA or Dork MAGA?
Comedian, self-proclaimed libertarian and host of the “Part of the Problem” podcast Dave Smith went on Joe Rogan’s podcast to air his many grievances about the second Trump administration, skewering it along with its donors and neocon allies over the Iran war, the Epstein files and ICE:
“I think [Tulsi Gabbard is] lying us into a war, which is the war that she was always opposed to…She sold ‘no war with Iran’ t-shirts.”
“Donald Trump has openly talked about, many times, how the Adelsons give him all this money, and they come by every day and all they have is another demand on behalf of Israel.”
“I’ve seen a ton of videos where there were masked ICE agents not even identifying themselves, going up to people, telling them, ‘you have to answer my questions, you don’t have an option to walk away,’ which is not true at all.”
Smith concluded: “So many of the Never Trumpers have come to define his presidency… Ben Shapiro was a Never Trumper… Mark Levin was a never-Trumper… Now they are the biggest Trump supporters ever. He’s blown up the coalition that got him elected,” and “If not supporting covering up the Epstein files, or not supporting a stupid war of choice, a war of aggression on behalf of Israel means I’m not MAGA, then okay.”
This prompted Rogan to proclaim that the phrase “Make America Great Again” “sucks.” He continued: “America is already great. Make America greater? I’m down. But Make America Great Again and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of fucking dorks? ‘Cause a lot of them are dorks. These really weird, fucking uninteresting, unintelligent people.”
A day later, Vice President JD Vance appeared on Benny Johnson’s podcast to clarify not that MAGA was void of dorks, but that MAGA “loves” their dorks: “I think we have many, many fewer dorks than the far left, but everybody’s got some dorks. We love our dorks, we love our cool kids, we love anybody who wants to save the country.”
Very cool!
We’re at war with Iran. What are you going to do next?
Both the America First faction and Trump loyalists set their sights on Senator Lindsey Graham after TMZ released photos of him at Disney World amid the ongoing war with Iran and partial government shutdown. Their commentary ranged from criticizing his hawkishness and making comparisons to his allegedly bloodthirsty tirades about Iran on the evening news, to cracking gay jokes and concerns about pedophilia:
Megyn Kelly: “There he is in the middle of Disney with a bubble wand. Like this seems like some sort of weird fever dream I’m in. Is this real?…I’m just angry about [Graham’s] influence over President Trump, and I’m angry that I have to look at pictures of him with his bubble wand. And I’m angry I have to pretend he’s not gay when it’s very clear he is... In my humble opinion, he’s an insult to the gays. Gays tend to be fabulous. Why isn’t he more fabulous?”
Alex Jones: “Lindsey Graham is walking around by himself with a baby blue and pink Princess scepter… talking to Mickey Mouse and people looking completely insane. On TV, he constantly talks about killing people.”
Benny Johnson: “When people talk about the creepy, compromised deep state, like this is what they’re talking about. They’re thinking exactly about Lindsey Graham. No wife, no kids. Why are you at Disney?”
Candace Owens: “I just want nothing to do with Lindsey Graham at Disney World. I don’t want Lindsey Graham having access to kids. In fact, typically when we hear about Lindsey Graham and children, he wants them blown up in various countries around the world…Look at him holding like, a bubble toy. He’s just a creep. Everything about this man gives me the ick.”
Sneako: “Lindsey Graham spotted at Disney World…This doesn’t look like a TMZ photo. It looks like a private investigator catching a pedophile…What is he doing at Disney World right now? In the middle of telling people in South Carolina to go die in Israel, he’s here.”
Nick Fuentes: “That’s kind of funny, Lindsey Graham gets a war with Iran, and what does he do? Go to Disney World. It’s true. He won the Super Bowl…It’s beyond parody…He’s in Disney World eating a Mickey Mouse ice cream while you are crying about oil prices.”
In a clear effort to hit back against attacks on his masculinity, Senator Graham responded on X later that day with a photo of him holding a shotgun: “Spent some time breaking clays in Edgefield County today. Doesn’t get much better than that.” However, this attempt largely backfired as it garnered less-than-kind responses from several right-wing media personalities:
Stew Peters: “LINDSEY GRAHAM’S CAMPAIGN: ‘We gotta find a way to make Lindsey seem less gay. Skeet shooting!’”
Brett Cooper: “This is like when Tim Walz pretended to work on his car.”
Candace Owens: “‘grok darling what should i post to not look gay.’”
WallStreetMav: “Lindsey Graham just posted this trying to appear masculine after he was photographed alone at Disney World with a bubble wand.”
Disney World may be the “happiest place on Earth” to most people, but it’s hard to imagine Senator Graham embracing that sentiment after this onslaught of criticism.
If the bullet does not fit…
Defense counsel for Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson, filed a motion in court on Monday, citing an ATF report that failed to conclusively match the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk to the rifle found at the scene. Candace Owens and her allies expressed vindication concerning her extensive theories about Kirk’s murder, or even doubled down on them:
Candace Owens: “I was told that there was no way the prosecution was going to be able to connect the bullet to that gun. I think the feds then realized that…then they quickly pivoted. ‘There’s no bullet, it’s just a small fragment. Problem solved.’ Now [they] can have ATF say that it’s inconclusive later down the line… They cannot even prove that the gun was fired.”
Jimmy Dore: “Hey, here’s a crazy development. The bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle allegedly used by the suspect, Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims. What? Huh? No kidding.”
Sneako: “Now the ATF says that they’re unable to match the bullet in the Charlie Kirk case to the rifle linked to his suspect Tyler Robinson. I said this the day it happened. I said Charlie Kirk was allegedly killed by Israel.”
Alex Jones: “The ATF says it’s not the same caliber!”
Critics of these theories shot back and expressed disgust directly at Owens and her supporters:
Benny Johnson: “The result of the comparison was inconclusive. It doesn’t say it doesn’t match. It says it’s literally inconclusive…”
Brandon Tatum: “The headline is deceptive and everybody that wants the killer of Charlie Kirk to get off, they’re salivating at the opportunity for that to happen…There is a difference between a bullet being identified and matching a gun that’s different than the suspect weapon…[and] the bullet is so fragmented that it was inconclusive, which makes it impossible to identify with any gun, including the suspect weapon.”
Laura Loomer: “Candace Owens is now calling for Tyler Robinson, the man who killed Charlie Kirk, to be acquitted. She is completely insane and she truly wants to see Charlie’s killer walk free because he chose Erika over her. This is pure evil.”
Needless to say, it’s going to be a long trial with lots more fuel added to the fire of conspiracy theories around the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
MAGA’s Civil War of Incivility
Joe Kent and the war in Iran remain at the center of the ongoing MAGA civil war between Trump loyalists and the America First crowd. This past week, the war escalated at a local GOP event in South Florida.
Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Trump’s self-proclaimed “Secretary of Retribution” Ivan Raiklin traded blows online this week after a brief confrontation at the Lincoln Day Dinner in Martin County, Florida. Footage shows Raiklin; Christian minister and activist Joseph Philip Daniel; and former Florida cop, member of the Proud Boys and Jan. 6 defendant Nate Tuck calling Bongino a “pedophile protector” and a “f*ggot,” while Bongino yells back at them to “go volunteer and do something.”
A day later, Raiklin went on Stewart Rhodes’ Infowars show to explain the incident. He insisted that his attendance at the event was unplanned and last-minute, and that he intended to calmly ask Bongino about Joe Kent and inquire as to why he blocked him on X. He also pinned the profanity and aggressiveness on Nate Tuck, who he claimed to have just met that day:
“And then Nate, I just met literally minutes before and he’s like, I’d like to go too… Same thing with Nate when he called him a pedophile protector. Well, that’s not my style.”
“My first question [for Bongino], I should have just asked it there. Why’d you block me?… And then the second thing is, why are you calling Joe Kent a coward? Please provide a substantive supporting argument on how you come to [this] conclusion…considering his experience fighting Iranian proxies.”
Back in the podcast game after resigning from the Trump administration in January, a disgruntled Bongino dedicated nearly half of an episode titled “Enemies to the Right” to eviscerating the trio. He likened them to “goofballs” seeking to undermine MAGA, questioned their contributions to the movement and called Raiklin and Daniel “Igor” and “Ogre” in an attempt to attack their appearance:
“Igor, do your parents tell everyone they have no living children, looking like you? Really? I mean, listen man, I get it. I don’t claim to have a face for podcasts. That’s why I enjoyed radio. But my gosh, if [I] had that Uncle Fester look, I would go hide.”
“These guys, they popped up on the scene, some of them in the last three, four years, never done a damn thing, put their name on a ballot, never agreed to serve… This is an asymmetric, unilateral war by a group of people who secreted themselves into this content creation ecosystem and pretended to be part of our unit while they’re trying to destroy it.”
Raiklin then went on Owen Report with Owen Shroyer a day later to reiterate much of the same talking points he laid out on Stewart Rhodes’ show and call on President Trump to return to the America First platform: “So Don, we welcome you back into our movement, and to be our president that we can actually respect again.”
As the MAGA civil war rages on, Dan Bongino has emerged as one of Trump’s strongest, most steadfast champions — and he’s not leaving the ring anytime soon.