No what he appreciates is when people are loyal to him.
“Support Donald Trump in anything he says and does,” Stone said simply.
Many of those whom Trump has invited his inner circle have said they became disillusioned with the former president.
Read on for statements from 12 allies who turned against Trump.
“Trump is unfit to be president,” he wrote.
“It’s everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, whoever disagreed, whoever challenged him.
It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.”
I wish you continued success."
A few months later, Manigault Newman competed on"Celebrity Big Brother.
“It’s bad,” she said, wiping away tears.
When Ross Mathews asked if the country would be okay, she responded negatively.
“It’s going to not be okay.
It’s not,” she said.
“So bad.”
“You called it un-American, unconstitutional.
He asked, “Do you support it?”
Haley answered, “Yes.”
Haley resigned in 2018, telling reporters (viaCNN) that she wouldn’t run for president in 2020.
Leading up to the 2024 election, however, Haley did indeed run against her former boss.
This time, she was sharply critical of the way he ran their government.
He’s made it self-absorbed.
And he’s just toxic.”
Speaking withNBC News, Haley insisted that Trump was no longer the same person she knew.
Putting it simply, she said, “He is unhinged.”
That was August 2020.
Within a few short months, Pence himself was under attack.
“Hang Mike Pence,” the crowds chanted.
Holed up in the White House, it seems that Trump agreed with the insurrectionists.
In her book"Enough,“former aide Cassidy Hutchinsonrevealed, “The president is okay with it.
He doesn’t want to do anything.
He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong.
He thinks Mike is a traitor.
This is crazy.”
This was, finally, enough for Pence to break with his boss.
In 2023, he condemned Trump’s handling of the insurrection.
“History will hold Donald Trump accountable for January 6.
“President Trump was wrong.
His reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day.”
“You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country.
I’m here to serve the country.”
Scaramucci has been very outspoken ever since about how dangerous he thinks a second Trump presidency would be.
In a 2024 appearance on MSNBC’s"Morning Joe,“Scaramucci reflected on Trump’s attitude.
“It goes down to the temperament,” he said.
And it goes down to the way he will hurt anybody and anything in his way.”
Speaking withVanity Fair, Cohen said, “I’d never walk away.”
Amid fallout from the Stormy Daniels payment, Cohen did indeed walk away … all the way to prison.
In 2019, Cohen spoke out against Trump in prepared legal remarks that were given to the media.
“I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is.
He is a racist.
He is a conman.
He is a cheat.”
At the time he was picked, he was the CEO of ExxonMobil.
Nevertheless, Tillerson’s appointment was confirmed.
He first served in the position under George H.W.
Trump appointed him in 2019, and Barr once again got to work protecting his president from oversight.
“[H]e has no concern with ideology or political principle,” Barr wrote.
“His motive is revenge, and it is entirely personal.”
“‘I don’t effing care that they have weapons.
They’re not here to hurt me,'” she testified that Trump said (viaCBS News).
Kelly lasted about 16 months in the position and left by the end of 2018.
Two years later, in 2020, he opened up about what he’d witnessed in the Trump administration.
A few years later, Kelly went on the record withCNNto confirm several damaging stories about the former president.
Kelly wrote, “[Trump is] a person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators.
There is nothing more that can be said.”
He concluded, “God help us.”
