As President Donald Trump turns to traditional second-term issues such as foreign policy, his Make America Great Again base is starting to vent that the shift away from focusing on deporting immigrants, slashing government, and cutting prices is not what they voted for.
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Independent pollsters, whose findings have often clashed with anti-Trump media polls, are starting to show evidence of a mutiny, especially among independents and younger voters.
And some influencers who rejoiced in Trump’s first half year into his second term are urging him to return to MAGA’s base issues.
“MTG is absolutely right,” said pollster Rich Baris, director of Big Data Poll and the head of the newly organized National Association of Independent Pollsters created to challenge biased media polls.
“Foreign policy, forget military action, is not even close to the top three most important issues to voters right now,” Baris told Washington Secrets. “Voters gave him a lot of grace. They’re now fresh out of it.”
Wait until his approval falls to 40%, even below that, which is entirely possible at this point.
All the RINOs in the Senate, which is basically all of them, will drop the act and abandon him again.
Of course Lindsey Graham will pretend until the primary, no matter what. https://t.co/7lgISxpnP0
— Rich Baris The People’s Pundit (@Peoples_Pundit) November 11, 2025
Fellow independent pollster Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports added, “[Trump and his administration] were supposed to burn the federal government down, and everybody is mad that they didn’t. Remember this: election ’24 was a referendum on institutional trust. And instead, Trump just got into office and said, ‘Trust me, bro.’”
Greene’s recent criticism of Trump was one of the clearest signs that the “Trump Train” was veering off track. The Trump loyalist has clashed with his view that the economy is booming and prices are coming down. And she has hit his consumption with foreign policy, most recently his meeting this week with the head of Syria, a new Trump ally once declared a terrorist.
My district overwhelmingly voted for President Trump, and they want to see America First policies put into action!
Georgia’s 14th is a rural district that faced real hardship during the COVID lockdowns with many families still feeling the effects today.
That’s why I’m in… pic.twitter.com/QpAw3VqYti
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 7, 2025
“My district overwhelmingly voted for President Trump, and they want to see America First policies put into action!” she said on X.
Trump responded with a slight putdown of Greene, saying, “She’s lost her way,” to which she stood firm in demanding a renewed focus on an America First agenda.
Others have also piled on. Blaze columnist Auron MacIntyre, for example, has voiced complaints about Trump’s promotion of China dumping students into the United States and, like Greene, mocked the president’s latest economic scheme to push 50-year home mortgages.
Stimulus check, 50-year mortgages, hundreds of thousands of new Chinese college students, no action against Antifa
I just want to trust the plan, but sadly chimping seems to be the only way forward
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) November 11, 2025
Fox News’s Laura Ingraham fed the fire this week when she pushed Trump on his Chinese student plan. His answer that MAGA wants a new Red Communist population the size of Baltimore or Milwaukee angered many of his supporters.
Laura Ingraham asks President Trump how allowing 600,000 Chinese students to attend US colleges is MAGA.
President Trump says “half the colleges in the United States would go out of business” if we limited the amount of Chinese students coming in. pic.twitter.com/ln2nc5ZMMq
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) November 11, 2025
Conservative influencer Mike Cernovich has been hitting X to complain about the president’s moves, most recently the lack of outrage after antifa activists clashed with supporters of the late Charlie Kirk during a California college rally this week.
50 year mortgages. 600,000 CCP spies in colleges around the country. ANTIFA attacks in Berkeley. Does Trump want Democrats to win the midterms in a blue wave?
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 11, 2025
He said on X, “50 year mortgages. 600,000 [Chinese Communist Party] spies in colleges around the country. ANTIFA attacks in Berkeley. Does Trump want Democrats to win the midterms in a blue wave?”
Baris has an unfortunate answer for the White House. In a new survey shared with Washington Secrets, he said the 2026 congressional midterm generic ballot is predicting a blue wave. He said it shows voters prefer Democrats over Republicans on that generic ballot, 46.8% to 38.9%.
Maybe worse, he suggested that Trump’s approval could fall below 40%. And if that happens, Rasmussen pollster Mitchell predicted that a Democratic Congress will fire up the impeachment machine again.
Other numbers shown to Washington Secrets by Baris found that voters of all ages are down on Trump’s foreign focus and his non-MAGA attention. “Is everyone wrong or is the administration in a bubble?” he asked.
If he has a rally now, He’s getting booed based on all of the DMs I’m getting.
Maybe that’s what he needs to hear. https://t.co/shQLSS78w7
— Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@honestpollster) November 11, 2025
Mitchell, meanwhile, has highlighted findings that young men are deserting Trump and want him to return to his effort to cut government with the so-called Department of Government Reform.
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And two days after Trump was booed at a Washington Commanders NFL game, Mitchell suggested that Trump host a MAGA rally and confront that sentiment.
“He’s getting booed based on all of the DMs I’m getting. Maybe that’s what he needs to hear,” said Mitchell.
