Some of the most popular voices of the internet with young men – almost all of who organized President Donald Trump or spoke strongly about him in November – have some thoughts about what he is doing wrong.
An All-Star line-up from Podcasters and YouTube Impresarios has brought Trump to the task in recent months on everything from immigration and Israel to freedom of expression and Jeffrey Epstein. The list includes Joe Rogan, Theo von, Andrew Schulz and Shawn Ryan, a cast that heavily hate Trump to gain access to their audience during last year’s campaign.
Rogan and Von have been particularly critical of the mass deportation agenda of the Trump administration, in which Rogan calls some deportations “F ——- G Crazy” and Von wonder why the Department of Homeland Security Online Videos of Immigration arrestations has posted.
NBC News Polling Led in August and early September discovered that 33% of American adults were 18-29 years old on the handling of Trump of deportations and immigration, while 67% rejected. Among American adults of all ages, a slightly higher share – 43% – approved the president of deportations and immigration by the president.
Schulz and his fellow guest lord, Akaash Singh, have criticized the president for non-compliance with his campaign blows.
“Everything [Trump] Campaign implemented, I believed he wanted to do, “said Schulz in an episode of July of his” flagrant “podcast, where Trump had appeared in October 2024.” And now he does exactly the opposite of every f —– g-ding. … I didn’t vote for this. He does exactly the opposite of everything I voted for. ‘
In particular, Schulz pointed to the failure of Trump to quickly terminate wars in Europe and the Middle East, the shortage spending in Trump’s budget and the president’s deportation campaign.
The White House has not returned a request for comments.
While little of these hosts – who tend to be less openly political than explicit conservative activists such as the late Charlie Kirk – formally endorsed the President’s campaign, they gave him a platform to talk about sport, politics, comedy, commercial and conspiracy theories with millions of viewers. Republican and Democratic strategists have acknowledged that Trump’s willingness to get in touch with them has helped him to give a crucial boost in a heavily fought election.
The recent disagreements are in danger of taking part of Trump’s support possibly with the less politically active, more difficult to reach podcast-listeners even if it does not translate into a larger part of the electorate for Democrats. Trump is not eligible to seek re -election, but Republicans hope to hold the new voters who have been found to be for him while fighting next year in the interim elections and to maintain the presidency in 2028.
During recent focus groups of the 18-29-year-old Trump voters-evalued by NBC News as part of the 2025 Deciders series, produced by Syracuse University and the research agencies Mildness And Sago – A handful of voters said that people like Rogan and Von helped to persuade them to vote for Trump.
Katelyn R., a 21-year-old Wisconsinite who identifies as a political independent, said during the Focus group that von me ‘led me to vote for Trump. She added that she had heard Von’s recent criticism of Trump and that she agrees with his ‘change in their position’.
And although most members of the Focus group said that influencers do not change his mind, they reflect similar criticism of vustrating frustrations with Trump.
“I am not doing well with how certain situations are treated with deportation,” Katelyn R. added. “The way these people are treated does not match my Christian values, or my pro-life values, or one of the values that can have a conservative.”
Richard B., a 22-year-old Republican from Pennsylvania, said he started to doubt Trump’s faithfulness to his campaign blows.
“I feel that transparency is also a problem, not only with rates, but also the feeling that he changed position when he spoke about the Epstein files to say that it is a big problem to say that” oh, it’s not really a big deal, “he said.
Despite some cracks in Trump’s coalition of young men, Democrats acknowledge the constant power of Trump – and the weakness of their party – among young men and the influencers they follow.
“One thing I have seen is that there can sometimes be a connection between the fitness world and then in some of these podcasts and online spaces that can be all right,” said former Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, a former NFL player who walked to Senate in Texas last year and rides again in 2026 in 2026, NBC News. “And if someone who has to train for a living and who is still trying to stay in shape, it bothers me because I know that many young men really go there hope they can get some advice about fitness.”
“And then there is a confidence that was built there, and then you can use that trust to say:” Hey, but you also have to think about, you know, why do women do better than you? ” I think that is really misleading for me and makes me a bit upset, “he added.
Trump fellow members say they are not worried about differences of opinions among the voters who supported him last November.
“President Trump successfully built a very large tent to be the first Republican to win the national popular mood in two decades,” said Nick Trainer, a GOP strategist who was a high officer in Trump’s 2020 campaign. “Inherent in a large tent there are disagreements.”
An NBC News Decision Descict Poll-Patie driven by SurveyMonkey that was performed at the end of August and the beginning of September, it turned out that 47% of men 18-29 years of “strong” or “somewhat” has been approved from Trump’s work in function, while 53% of that group was approved “somewhat” from Trump.
Yet disappointment among young men, and the boys they listen to, could rob the Gop of a mechanism to make voters with low praise who favor them.
At the end of last month, Von, host of the popular YouTube show ‘last weekend’ and the son of a Nicaraguan immigrant, tore the Ministry of Domestic Security to use his image in an advertisement.
“Yooo dhs I have not approved it to be used in this. I know you know my address, so send a check,” von wrote in a message that has since been removed on X. “and please hold this out and please keep me outside your ‘Banger’ deportation videos. If it comes up to immigrate immigration and heart is much more than this video.
Von talked about the incident during his show last week and noted that the administration pays attention to what he says and that it caused a recoil online.
“The next morning I woke up from a text of a high government official and said:” Hey, if you need some extra security in your neighborhood, or some extra police cars on patrol, let me know, “von said.” And I am something like “what? What? What are you about? I don’t even know the code in my neighborhood.”
Rogan, who organized Trump for a three -hour episode of his podcast “Joe Rogan Experience” in October and explicitly endorsed by Trump days later, was one of the first podcasters who publicly break with the administration.
In March, only two months after Trump was sworn in in his second term, Rogan assessed various news reports about the American deportant asylum seekers to countries they did not find out, including one case of a gay-make-up artist from Venezuela who was sent to a prison in El Salvador.
“If you want compassionate people to be on board, you can’t deport gay hijackers who are looking for asylum-that is f —— g crazy and then throw them in an El Salvador prison,” Rogan said.
In July, Rogan again called it “f —– g Crazy” that the Trump administration had Held tufts University student rümeysa Öztürk Partly because of an editorial chapter she had written on the leadership of her university to dispose of companies with ties with Israel.
Schulz and Von in the summer also broke with Trump over his administration Moves to trivialization The importance of the Epstein files, as well as about the administration Continuous support for Israel While it led his offensive in Gaza.
“It is clear that the intelligence community is trying to hide, of course the Trump administration tries to hide,” said Schulz when he talked about the Epstein files with his co-hosts in an episode of July of “flagrant”.
“He punishes the basis, as almost spits in their faces. They ask for it. He has led a campaign,” Schulz added.
In the meantime, Von’s May comments are the attacks of Israel on Gaza a “calls”genocide’Millions of views collected.
A few weeks later, Von Vice -President JD Vance organized in his show and immediately told him that the videos he saw from Gaza were “the sickest” and that “where it gets scary is that we give, you know, we are complicit because we help with financing, military things.”
“Sometimes it feels like we’re looking for the interest of Israel before we look forward to the interest of America,” Von added.
The criticism of hosts became a fever -pack in September when the president Fourth Disney’s decision To suspend the Talk Show-Gastheer of the Late Night Jimmy Kimmel for comments he made after the murder of Kirk.
“I absolutely do not think that the government should ever be involved in dictating what a comedian can say in a monologue. That is f —— g crazy,” he said.
He added that “people on the right” who celebrated Disney’s decision, “were crazy because they support this because this will be used on you.”
Singh, the co-host of ‘flagrant’, also denounced the move and said that it was ‘a large attack on freedom of expression’ and criticized conservative activists for celebrating the suspension of Kimmel.
“I think we have been pretty avid for free speech. And it’s funny to see how right-wing people just become left-wing people. … If you agree, that’s a few snowflake S —,” Singh added.
The settlement has $ 22 million for Trump to contribute to the Trust for the National Mall and a construction of a new ballroom of the White House, according to judicial documents that were submitted on Monday.
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