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Trump's Frankenstein? US Maga meltdown tests its creator
The Straits Times
|November 19, 2025
US President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (Maga) movement is showing the first signs of turning on its creator. Could it be a Frankenstein moment for the US President?
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A 2024 photo of Maga cheerleader Marjorie Taylor Greene with Mr Donald Trump. Not long ago, Ms Greene was perhaps Mr Trump's biggest booster but the President has now disowned her.
(PHOTO: AFP)
During the course of one frenetic weekend, Mr Trump disowned former Maga cheerleader Marjorie Taylor Greene and performed a screeching U-turn on the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Mr Trump’s meltdown underscores the cracks that have opened between the right-wing movement and the billionaire founder who has for years ruled it with an iron fist.
The turmoil has also punctured the aura of invincibility that Mr Trump and the White House have sought to cultivate since his return to power - raising questions about whether Mr Trump has created a Frankenstein-like monster he can no longer control.
“Maga was my idea,” he protested in a Fox News interview last week - itself notable as normally pro-Trump host Laura Ingraham confronted him on whether visas for foreign students were “pro-Maga”.
“I know what Maga wants better than anybody else.”
Not long ago, Ms Marjorie Taylor Greene was perhaps Mr Trump's biggest booster.
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