During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump and his advisers not only rallied his hardcore MAGA base — they also made a point of reaching out to independents, swing voters, Latinos, the Manosphere and Gen-Z men. And one of the Manosphere figures who interviewed Trump was podcaster Andrew Schulz.That interview, according to the Daily Beast’s Julia Ornedo, gave Trump “street cred in the world of chronically online young men.” And Trump made it past the finish line in the end, defeating Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 1.5 percent nationwide. 2024 marked Trump’s fourth presidential campaign, but it was the first time he won the national popular vote (Trump first ran for president in 2000).But now, five and one-half months into Trump’s second presidency, Schulz, according to Ornedo, regrets voting for Trump.READ MORE: Trump’s goal isn’t to restore American greatness — it’s much more sinisterOn the Thursday, July 10 episode his “Flagrant” podcast, Schulz was highly critical of Trump policies he considers a betrayal of his 2024 platform.Schulz explained, “There’ll be people that they’ll DM me like, ‘You see what your boy’s doing? You voted for this.’ I’m like, ‘I voted for none of this.’ He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for. I want him to stop the wars — he’s funding them. I want him to shrink spending, reduce the budget — he’s increasing it.”Trump, according to Schulz, campaigned against “the status quo” in 2024 but now embraces it.Schulz lamented, “I already expect politicians to not do most of the s——— they say. I don’t want to be too cynical, but now, I’m getting to the point where it’s like: Can they do anything?…. When you feel like the status quo will do nothing and change nothing, you have way more of a longer leash for the outsiders’ ideas than you do the status quo’s ideas. And I think that was the idea with Trump, who’s like, ‘Maybe he will stop these wars.’ No. ‘Maybe we will see what’s up with this Epstein s———.’ No.”READ MORE: ‘It’s a flat out lie’: Former wrestlers say Jim Jordan knew about abuse in new HBO documentaryWatch the full video at this Daily Beast link (subscription required).
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