Podcaster Shawn Ryan on Monday railed against President Donald Trump over his litany of apparent corruption scandals, joining a burgeoning chorus of former MAGA supporters and pro-Trump podcasters who have turned against the president since his 2024 reelection.
“I just don’t see any positivity coming out of this administration,” said Ryan on his titular show.
The former U.S. Navy SEAL continued, “It seems very self-serving. I have a list of shit printed I could go through, but what was the last one? He fucking made it so he had Todd Blanche do the dirty work so that him or anybody in his family could never be audited by the IRS?”
Trump last month settled a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service for a $1.776 billion fund — and a vow from the Justice Department for the IRS to never investigate any tax crimes he or his family may have committed — in exchange for dropping the lawsuit.
“What the fuck is that shit?” Ryan continued. “The drone company, the $400 million jet from Qatar, the what is it? The executives club? You know about that? You don’t hear about any of this shit. Does this shit look like he’s serving the fucking people? No.”
Ryan was referring to a $620 million Pentagon loan made last year to a drone company linked to Donald Trump Jr., the president receiving a luxury jet from Qatar — before curiously granting the oil-rich autocracy a U.S. defense guarantee — and a costly club for MAGA allies.
“Fox News sure as fuck isn’t reporting any of this shit,” Ryan added.
His guest, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, agreed. She has joined fellow conservative commentators Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones in criticizing Trump over his Iran war, only to be slammed by the MAGA leader in April as a “Low IQ” individual as a result.
“He sued the fucking government,” said Ryan. “He sued his own fucking government.”
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Ryan joined several so-called “manosphere” influencers, including Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Andrew Schulz, in interviewing Trump on their podcasts ahead of the election and endorsing him, seemingly based on campaign vows of nonintervention and a focus on the economy.
Trump’s war with Iran has already cost at least 13 U.S. military service members and more than 3,000 Iranians their lives, spiked gas prices and sparked fears of a global energy crisis. While she is a critic of the war, Kelly said Trump sued his own government out of “principle.”
She argued he was “maliciously prosecuted” by the DOJ under former President Joe Biden.
Ryan pushed back: “I feel like this is how he’s justified to himself to just take advantage of every little thing that comes across his desk that’s going to benefit him financially. He’s justified it through what’s happened to him previously, which I could understand.”
He added, “But I mean, I’m sorry. You can’t do it like that.”