I still am functionally a Trump supporter. I just despise everything he's done in the recent past. I see his failure to uphold his campaign promises as an existential threat to my nation and my life and my family. So I'm not in support of what he's doing. I'm desperate to have him back on track because he is the president and he's the one that needs to be doing this. But I'd still say I'm a Trump supporter.

90% of prominent Trump supporters are done.

So, I was already lined up to support Trump a month before he announced.

But I think it's probably more just a situation where it's like the more enemies Trump accrues, the more he likes Trump. Like, he just has to double down. To some extent. Every enemy only makes him like Trump more simply because that puts him back in the outsider position that we know he loves so much.

Anyone in general not rooting for Trump and his economic plans is insane.

I am seriously inches away from not supporting Trump anymore.

And we are now seeing like, oh, there's a point where they're going to eat themselves.

You know, for his quote, you know, he could shoot a man and people would still support him, but he couldn't kiss a man and have people still support him. So there are definite weak spots.

Let me say something scary because I've been thinking since the caller said it, a couple of them said it, and I was thinking before the show, Trump is losing so much support in real polls on the grassroots. I mean, it's, you know, I don't just believe polls.

But I am seriously inches away from not supporting Trump anymore because I am not going to watch him commit political suicide.

So I'm not an apologist for Trump.

So Alex has come to the conclusion that Trump, he's more good than bad. The point is, is that they are doing so much good dismantling the deep state and all the rest of it that I just find it impossible not to back Trump.

I did not support Trump last year because this was my primary concern. And I said this last year, I said that I'm not going to vote for a Democrat. I don't think I'd ever vote for a Democrat. But unless Trump could give a commitment that we wouldn't end up in exactly this situation, which is a war with Iran, I said I can't vote for him.

And as long as 95% of what Trump's doing is good, I'm expected to be perfect. I'm going to be very excited and cheerleading that.

There's a lot of people that don't speak their mind. Do you know how many artists... That have reached out to me that are like fucking hippies, man. Like artists, like musicians, comedians, that thanked me for endorsing Trump because they can't do it. They said they want to, but they don't want to be attacked. They can't say it.

Nick is not super into Trump anymore.

Trump doesn't have half the country. He doesn't have that many fans. He has, what, 60% of the Republican voter electorate? He has maybe 70% on a good day? He has definitely, for sure, tens of millions of MAGA loyalists, but not even close to half the country.

Well, I'm not a pragmatist. I'm a realist. And so I don't make my decisions from a pragmatic perspective. I'm very ideological and really believe in what I want. But I'm a realist in that if I've got, you know, Joe Biden or Gavin Newsom, and they stole it from Trump in the beginning, so it's like the public actually already elected him. So even though I don't like Trump at certain levels, the people elected him, so I'm going to respect that. And I do like Trump at a lot of levels. I just don't want to be chump at the same time, and he's still running around saying the vaccine's good. You know, he came out and said, oh, we're going to investigate the cause of autism. Well, I mean... Okay, you're going to put a Band-Aid on the gunshot wound you just gave us? So that's a big deal. But getting rid of Roe v. Wade, securing the border, standing up to China, shipping jobs back, making his energy independent. I mean, pulling us out of the UN, WHO. I mean, he did so many peace deals, peace deals with North Korea. So many good things. But you can have the greatest dinner set there, and then the waiter climbs up on the table and takes a dump everywhere. It kind of still ruins the meal.

One of the things that I will say is it does feel like the love affair with Trump is pretty much over with Alex's audience. There are some pretty harsh words that people have for Trump.

Really what takes me to the point of really supporting Trump over to Stannis is Trump's stalwart, push for peace, anti-war, and not having nuclear war, stopping and ending the Ukraine operation, which as president he can snap his fingers and do because the people that have hijacked the U.S. are the ones running the Ukraine war. So you've got to support Trump because of that.

The people that support Trump are the very best in the world. And the movement is excellent.

So we know, because we looked at 2015 quite a bit, that Alex becomes a big Trump fan by mid-December of 2015. And into early 2016, he has jumped.

So we know, because we looked at 2015 quite a bit, that Alex becomes a big Trump fan by mid-December of 2015. And into early 2016, he has jumped.

The most powerful weapon Donald Trump has isn't just that he's anti-political, correct? It isn't that he just speaks like a common person. It isn't that he's just pushing basic common sense populism. It's that currently at his rallies that I've seen the raw footage of that we have on Infowars.com, it's got to be a third or 40% of the people going in the doors are Hispanic. And it's got to be 10, 20, 30% are black. And a lot are Asian.

But he's not going to criticize him.

It really shows you how real Trump is. He's a real president. He's really trying to do the best job he can. He's totally surrounded by traitors. No one will do what he actually says to do. And I'm just going to support the president. That's what is on my heart. And that's my gut. And I'm just backing Trump. And it doesn't mean I'm going to sit there like a cult member and agree with everything he does. It doesn't mean I'm going to enjoy watching him leave us all out to dry. To twist the wind. Because I got a crew that really busts their ass and that means well and that are smart and do a great job. And it's hard to run an operation with 100 people or so. And what he's trying to do with all this obstruction and the mutiny he's under, he's doing an A-plus job.

Asian Americans, and I'm not doing some virtue-signaling, ass-kishing thing, they statistically are the biggest supporters of Trump in a non-white population.

He's definitely a real president and I believe he has the best interest of the country at heart.

And Trump doesn't do anything about it. But he has all the damn power and is in the right to do it. And so here's the deal: I love Trump a lot, but it's like my back's broken. I'm being eaten alive in a pit. I can't get out. And Trump's up there at the top of the pit, not getting me out.

Then on the 15th, Alex responds to the verdict being passed by marketing heavily and signaling a very clear interest in exploring the idea that Trump is not good. Yeah. And that it might be time that we got a jump ship.

But he's not stood up for the persecution of his supporters. He hardly ever talks about how they get beat up outside of the arenas because he thinks that will scare people away.

And he was fueling a lot of Alex's shift to Trump with his narratives about the counter-coup and what have you.

He's given way more public appreciation to that than Alex. And Alex has to know that, and the optics of it are terrible.

But this is a cancerous outside group. So I'm saying all options are on the table, and I back the president basically whatever he does. Yeah, he has my trust at this point. So there's two things that are super important there. On May 2nd, Alex is saying, whatever the president does, he's got my trust. I support him.

And when he left, even after Trump was saying that he fired him and all that shit, Roger was very clear publicly that he still supported Trump. Yeah, yeah. Like all that. Some of it was couched in being anti-Hillary, but it was also if the perception was that he was fired, it looks very magnanimous that he still supports Trump. And if he quit, if you believe he quit, it looks like he just believes so strongly in what Trump stands for that his whole line on it was, I wasn't being effective in the campaign. I could help out better outside. So he never, even though he quit/slash got fired, whatever, like even though that, he never stopped supporting Trump.

They probably don't recognize that what motivated this man to do what he did is the same rhetoric that informs most of Trump's support. Yeah. Most of the MA base.

But if Trump was like, hey, white supremacists are bad, which he only even kind of begrudgingly half-said, which everybody already knew was a lie, the only thing that would get people that support Trump off the Trump train is him being like, I am going to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a week. Like, that's it.

The first thing is the intensity with which he thought that the economy was collapsing at the beginning of 2016 that led him to be, we must support Trump or die, is largely based on a misunderstanding that he has of his own numbers.

But you look at most of these people, they're just Democrats who want to control the Republican Party, and that's why I finally, about three months ago, You know, sort of coming over to Trump because there wasn't any other strong leadership. There wasn't anybody telling like it was. There wasn't anybody going up against political correctness. There wasn't anybody pointing out we have all these bad tariff deals and all these deals that ensure our jobs will go. But the coup de grace was money doesn't lie. He's not getting any big hedge fund money. He's not getting any big money. He had tons of money from Robert Mercer. Wow. All the big money is going to Hillary or Jeb Bush or Rubio. That's all you need to know. Trump or die. I mean, that's it. I'm sorry. I mean, I like Rand Paul. I like Cruz. Cruz might have a shot. I hope he becomes Trump's VP. We've got to get behind Trump. It's just true. It's a fact. And I'm not going to sit here like a coward on the sidelines and then, you know, just join the whole chorus attacking him because it's the right thing to do to stand with Trump.

But we have called for Harlem for Trump. And I got to tell you, Alex, black people here in Harlem are touting that Trump is the man.

I have to judge a tree by its fruits, and I think he's a politician. I think he's very slick. I like him as a person. He's very Americana. I don't completely trust him, but it doesn't matter. The rhetoric he's putting out is what the rest of the Republicans wouldn't do that's popular, that's true. So I support his message. And I think he might be a big enough egomaniac, and I mean that in a positive way, that's what it takes to lead sometimes, that he may want to be president instead of just being a shill for Hillary. I know he's been in deep with the Clintons, but I just have to give him the benefit of the doubt. But regardless, he's now the tip of the spear for what I'd call the Tea Party. And so they want to destroy him in name to try to hurt us. We have to defend Trump while he's telling the truth, while letting him know we're watching him very closely. So I think that's the balanced approach to this.

I want him to fucking support Trump already. Because I kind of get why. I kind of understand why. He's going to eventually.

Alex Jones, within a week of that, does his pivot on Donald Trump. On not saying shit about Donald Trump. Not on... Before that point, he'd been talking about how Donald Trump was a predator, he was mobbed up, he wasn't really rich, he was the front man for a consortium on the East Coast. Right. Then he goes to Europe on a vacation, he comes back after the first debate, and within a couple days of being back in America, he says, I'm gonna give Trump a chance. I'm not saying I'm supporting him, I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt.

My gut tells me not to completely trust Donald Trump, but also not to completely judge him. And say that he's an operative completely. And now I've moved from 50-50 on Trump to 60-40 towards him.

If you support Trump now, there's only three possible reasons. You are either in denial, you are stupid, or you're a racist.