
‘We Don’t Want You’: MAGA Reacts to John Thune Becoming Senate Majority Leader, and He Won’t Like What They’re Saying
President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 election has given his MAGA supporters eight straight days of euphoria.
In a secret-ballot vote conducted Wednesday, however, Republicans in the U.S. Senate chose notorious Trump-hating Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as the next Senate majority leader, thereby delivering a salutary reminder of their disdain for the American voter and prompting a backlash from Trump supporters on the social media platform X.
“We don’t want you. We don’t like you. Best piece of advice, DON’T STAND IN OUR WAY,” prominent Trump supporter Gunther Eagleman tweeted in reply to Thune’s victory.
We don’t want you.
We don’t like you.
Best piece of advice, DON’T STAND IN OUR WAY.
Either you’re with Trump or you’re not.
Choose wisely. We are watching closely Thune.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 13, 2024
In announcing his election as majority leader, Thune characterized Republicans as “united behind President Trump’s agenda.”
We shall see.
Honored to serve as the next U.S. Senate majority leader. pic.twitter.com/zq9XLrPDUr
— Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) November 13, 2024
Eagleman, who has more than one million followers on X, was hardly the only prominent Trump supporter to voice disgust at the election’s result, its process and what it revealed about how deep the deep state’s hatred of voters actually runs.
For one thing, Trump supporters generally regard Thune as aligned with Trump-hating Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. McConnell had served as Senate GOP leader since his election to that post in 2006.
“McConnell 2.0,” Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida tweeted in response to Thune’s election.
McConnell 2.0 https://t.co/3KLoQoX2Wr
— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) November 13, 2024