'A Total Failure': The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump

[Nevilledog]

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Members of the Proud Boys, who have engaged in political violence, at a rally in Portland, Ore., in September.
‘A Total Failure’: The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump
Members of the far-right group, who were among Donald Trump’s staunchest fans, are calling him “weak,” in a sign of fraying support.
nytimes.com
1:04 PM · Jan 20, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/technology/proud-boys-trump.html

After the presidential election last year, the Proud Boys, a far-right group, declared its undying loyalty to President Trump.

In a Nov. 8 post in a private channel of the messaging app Telegram, the group urged its followers to attend protests against an election that it said had been fraudulently stolen from Mr. Trump. “Hail Emperor Trump,” the Proud Boys wrote.

But by this week, the group’s attitude toward Mr. Trump had changed. “Trump will go down as a total failure,” the Proud Boys said in the same Telegram channel on Monday.

As Mr. Trump departed the White House on Wednesday, the Proud Boys, once among his staunchest supporters, have also started leaving his side. In dozens of conversations on social media sites like Gab and Telegram, members of the group have begun calling Mr. Trump a “shill” and “extraordinarily weak,” according to messages reviewed by The New York Times. They have also urged supporters to stop attending rallies and protests held for Mr. Trump or the Republican Party.

The comments are a startling turn for the Proud Boys, which for years backed Mr. Trump and promoted political violence. Led by Enrique Tarrio, many of its thousands of members were such die-hard fans of Mr. Trump that they offered to serve as his private militia and celebrated after he told them in a presidential debate last year to “stand back and stand by.” On Jan. 6, some Proud Boys members stormed the U.S. Capitol.

But since then, discontent with Mr. Trump, who later condemned the violence, has boiled over. On social media, Proud Boys participants have complained about his willingness to leave office and said his disavowal of the Capitol rampage was an act of betrayal. And Mr. Trump, cut off on Facebook and Twitter, has been unable to talk directly to them to soothe their concerns or issue new rallying cries.

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[FakeNoose]

1. I'm glad they sharpied "Proud Boy" on their helmets

... otherwise we would never know who the hell they are.

[Nevilledog]

3. Guess they decided putting it on helmets was better than their bare asses.

[MontanaMama]

2. Awwww. Nazi groups cast adrift with no leader.

I'm sure Josh Hawley will step in in short order.

[Nevilledog]

6. Cruz and Hawley will fight over them

[mitch96]

13. Yup, gonna have to find another Nazi to be their leader... nt

[Dorian Gray]

4. the dud boys

and their dud president are dud toothless losers.

[DeminPennswoods]

5. Maybe the theory that these white supremacists/neo-nazis

used Trump more than he used him is more true than not.

[ace3csusm]

7. Trump will now need to extra security

wait til they show up at his home ....He should start build a bunker now ... maybe even start sleeping their ....

[unblock]

8. the problem with trying to be alpha dog is that the retirement program is not pretty....

[brush]

9. I figured trump's appeal would fade once the loser image was firmly...

stamped on his forehead and he was out of office and media exposure lessen, but who knew it would happen this damn fast?

It's his first few hours out of office not months or weeks.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Are they being honest or just faking us out?

I don't trust any of them.

[Guilded Lilly]

11. The "Proud Boys" are only dedicated to hate. The Cretin was used as a mobilizing catalyst...

Their “god” has always been HATRED.

[Goodheart]

12. In all fairness, trump DID stab them in the back.

LMAO

[Jim__]

14. They just figured out that Trump is a total failure?

I'd say they're a bit slow on the uptake.

[Wounded Bear]

15. Hardly, it'll be years cleaning up the shitstorm that was Trump...nt

[Silent3]

16. When Trump got COVID I thought a "weakness" perception was going to...

...lose him some ardent supporters, but it didn't make much of a dent.

Now that Trump is gone, no "Storm" came along to save the day, Trump's walk-backs when he (in dull, teleprompter voice) denounced the violence... I guess that's what it took for him to look "weak" to the primitive mindset of his knuckle-dragger followers.

[Aristus]

17. Their undying loyalty died...

[mtnsnake]

18. I hope the Proud morons are proud of how they got their heads fucked over by a con artist

Stupid assholes.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Out of the 74 million, these are some -special- trump chumps.

[Dustlawyer]

20. Only took you the 2016 campaign and 4 years to figure out what we always knew!

Nothing to be proud about! Since your judgement seems to be greatly impaired it might be time to listen to us and learn what really happened the last 4 years instead of what your alternate reality bubble told you. Learn to think for yourself!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Trump's not pretty enough to join

[wishstar]

22. Hope they know he offered well wishes to the new administration yesterday and played golf today

All of his demented duped followers need to realize he was just a fraud and a con artist who manipulated them and then walked away with a quarter of a billion dollars he bilked from them on false promises of overturning election.