Name: What’s Really Causing Trump’s Base to Split?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What’s Really Causing Trump’s Base to Split?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What’s Really Causing Trump’s Base to Split?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-07. Transcript available.

There was over this last year, really, I mean, it's the last two years, but
really over this last year, there was this huge, like, this huge split in the
right wing over Israel, obviously.
Was that the biggest cause, you think?
I think that, look, obviously, Charlie Kirk being killed was a, but look,
Charlie Kirk was already dealing with it before he died.
Like, it was a dynamic at turning point.
It was a huge scandal when he had Tucker and me and Megyn Kelly at turning
point.
And then he went on Megyn Kelly's show and talked about how all the Zionists
were, like, flipping out on him and how crazy it was that he had been such an
ally.
And they were turning on him just for hosting a debate and hosting a few voices
that were critical of Israel.
Not really that many, actually.
But this has been a huge split, but it's not a split like it's 50-50.
It's a split like the entire youth is against this unconditional support for
Israel.
A huge portion of, you know, like, Candace and Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes
have been surging over this last year.
They're bigger than ever.
Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro is, like, losing 1,000 YouTube subscribers a day.
Mark Levin is just getting ratioed every time he opens his mouth on social
media.
And so what's happening now is there's this dynamic where –
I thought he was Jim Cramer.
I didn't even know who he – I kept –
I can see confusing those two.
I got confused.
Go on.
But now there's this situation.
Well, so – but I'm saying now you have this dynamic where J.D. Vance wants to
be the Republican nominee.
Well, like, 80% of the base is against – is for America first, not for Israel
first, you know?
And now – and particularly with all those shows we were talking about, like
your show, Rogan's show, Tim's show, Andrew's show, all these guys.
Everybody, my show, all of us are like, we don't want to fight wars on behalf
of Israel.
Yeah.
So it's like, where do you go now?
Now there's a – now there's a real media environment.
I'm not saying it's perfect and I'm just naming the comedians.
There's a lot of other great, like, news shows out there too.
Oh, for sure.
Like, Breaking Points with Sager and J.D. and Crystal Ball is a great show.
Like, there's a bunch of really good shows online that aren't in this corporate-controlled
media environment where they're actually going to have to face some of this
stuff going forward.
So I'm like – I'm very optimistic about that kind of long term that we've,
like, cracked the state's monopoly on propaganda.
Yeah, it is going to be interesting because you're going to have to answer –
I don't know if you're going to be able to say you're a pro-Israel candidate.
It's going to be tough.
Now here's the thing is that – and they're going to be in a Charlie Kirk-type
situation here.
And I'm not talking about Charlie Kirk's assassination, but I'm saying the
position that Charlie Kirk was in right before he died and the reason why he
was sending those text messages to Josh Hammer and them that I have no other
choice than to abandon support for Israel and while he was complaining about
all that stuff on the Megyn Kelly show is that he was caught between a rock and
a hard place, which is exactly what J.D. Vance is going to be caught between
now because you've got – well, look, in order to lead an organization like
Turning Point U.S.
You need your young activists and then you need your donors, right?
You need billionaires to give you money, but you need young activists to show
up.
And so Charlie Kirk was in this position where he's like, dude, the young
activists are completely against this shit.
But the donors won't even let you host a debate about it, let alone take that
position.
And so what do you do there?
And now J.D. Vance is going to be in a similar position too.
If you come out and you say, I'm pro-Israel, well, man, I mean at this point
that turns a whole lot of us off.
But if you say, I'm anti-Israel, that's a tough – in Washington, D.C., you
can't survive there for long.
So he's got to try to walk this tightrope that is becoming more impossible by
the day.
He's going to need a strong mascara.
Yeah, you better put your best mascara on for that one.
Type shit.
And I like J.D., man.
He knows –
I like J.D. too.
I like J.D.
Listen, I like J.D.
I even would like to maybe be able to support him.
Yeah.
But I'm in a position right now I don't see how I'm going to be able to, at
least from my perspective.
Because you're coming off of you're going to be attached to the administration
that did everything Netanyahu wanted
and covered up the Epstein scandal and didn't solve any of the major problems
in the country, short of maybe the border.
And also, J.D. Vance, what are you going to say?
What are you going to run on?
This time we'll really drain the swamp.
Like what are you going to – and also, just because Trump is Trump, he can't
really criticize Donald Trump
because he's still his vice president as he's running a presidential campaign.
It's a tough spot.
Yep.
Bro, he's good.
That's the tightest rope in the world.
Now, there is something about that tightrope that I can tell J.D. loves.
He wants to challenge himself.
He's a guy who's challenged himself a lot in his life, and he wants to
challenge himself.
So he's going to try to navigate that.
That's going to be super tricky to figure out because those are – I mean,
that's like his –
I mean, that's just like a – it's such a fine point.
Yeah.
Well, I think, you know, you see it like already.
That's such a fine point, man.
Well, it's happened a lot just with –
and it's kind of become MAGA versus America First, too, is kind of where that
thing – where that – where the Republican kind of the right divide is.