Trump’s MAGA feuding expands to new policy fronts

Published November 14, 2025 6:00am ET



The MAGA movement that President Donald Trump created keeps pushing back on him, from his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files to his comments this week regarding visas for foreign workers.

Trump says that he decides what it means to “Make America Great Again,” but the repeated disputes underscore how the ideological purity of his followers is increasingly at odds with the president’s own flexibility on policy.

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