Ex-RNC Spokesperson Tim Miller Says Trump Is In ‘Deep Trouble’ With This Key Group

Former Republican National Committee spokesperson Tim Miller on Friday argued that Donald Trump’s support is weakening in the so-called “manosphere” — an online community of hyper-masculine, anti-establishment comedians and podcasters that were a key component to his election win.

Miller, now with the anti-Trump conservative site The Bulwark, joined MSNBC to address Trump navigating backlash from his coalition over his administration’s handling of files tied to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Miller, citing Trump’s famous Fifth Avenue comments, predicted that the president’s main base would “come back around to him” but the manosphere’s support has been fading because “they don’t like being played for fools.”

“They’re not in the cult, they were with Trump as a matter of convenience,” he told host Nicolle Wallace.

He noted that Gillis has appeared on Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast.

“So he’s in deep trouble with that crowd,” Miller stressed.

Moments earlier, Miller declared that Trump “totally misjudged” whether his base cared about the Epstein case.

Elsewhere in the segment, Wallace claimed that Trump’s “miscalculation” may have been his lack of appreciation for “the depths” to which FBI director Kash Patel and FBI deputy director Dan Bongino were invested in Epstein conspiracy theories.

She added that Trump also may not have appreciated what animates the manosphere: conspiracy theories and “distrust of institutions.”

“It’s not that they liked Trump, they liked Trump to the extent that he was adjacent to the conspiracies, that he seemed like a fellow traveler in helping them get to the bottom of them. They didn’t like him for his policy positions or his looks,” Wallace said.