Trump got a major warning shot as CNN plays expletive-laden MAGA meltdown: GOP strategist

MAGA has grown increasingly divided over the Iran war and President Donald Trump's decisions — something right-wing influencers have spoken out against even more vocally in recent days, CNN reported on Wednesday.

During a live broadcast, CNN anchor Kasie Hunt played a clip from MAGA podcaster Megyn Kelly, who openly criticized Trump in a fiery, expletive-heavy monologue.

And CNN let the curse words fly unedited.

"I don't know about you, but I am sick of this s---," Kelly said in the clip. "I'm just, I'm sick of it. Can't he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the president is playing 3-D chess. Shut up. F------ shut up about that s---. You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We're talking about civilians just casually in a social media post. This is completely irresponsible and disgusting."

Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist, described the sentiment among MAGA supporters. He also added that Kelly's comments were not solely hers, but something that echoed among the president's base ahead of the midterms.

"I think he still has very strong support amongst his base," Madden said. "And he still commands and can mobilize his base very quickly. But is he losing a faction of it? Yes. And Megyn Kelly's sentiment, if that's shared by 15, 20, 25% of that MAGA coalition, that's problematic when you're heading into a 2026 election environment where base motivation is a huge part of how you calculate victory, because if you add it in."

Madden expected that other factors would drive conservative voters to potentially question Trump's leadership, which could be reflected in November. And that the Trump administration could have a serious problem coming.

"And also one other thing I'd say is this didn't start with Iran," he added. "Second Amendment and Fourth Amendment voters because of what happened with the immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. They had a lot of sort of clamoring and sort of grumpiness with the president. So this is a sort of a little bit of a trend that the White House has to be very careful about, because also right now, if you look at the numbers with independents, we're going to be the swing part. And that's why they call them battleground districts. That's, you know, the president's support with those voters, which he actually did pretty well with in 2024, has been declining. So there is a very real political calculation problem here that the White House is facing."