Fox News host Greg Gutfeld has spent years watching the Never Trump crowd self-destruct.
He just revealed the real psychological wound driving their rage.
And Greg Gutfeld nailed one brutal fact about Never Trumpers that put jaws on the floor.
The one thing Never Trumpers can't admit to themselves
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld spoke at AmFest 2025 in Phoenix and delivered one of the most insightful psychological breakdowns of Trump hatred ever heard.
Speaking to a packed crowd at the Turning Point USA conference, Gutfeld cut through years of Never Trump hysteria with surgical precision.
"You look at why people resent Donald Trump. I've been thinking about this for a long time because I had the same issues in 2016 and 2015, and I knew Trump," Gutfeld stated.¹
The Fox host admitted he struggled with Trump during the 2016 campaign despite knowing him personally.
But years of reflection helped Gutfeld understand the real source.
"Why do people resent anything? It's because they play a role somehow in the resentment, and they have yet to confront themselves over it," Gutfeld explained.²
Trump didn't just beat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
He shattered an entire class of conservative "intellectuals" who never understood their own voters.
The Never Trump conservatives — the David Frums, the Bill Kristols, the Jonah Goldbergs — spent decades positioning themselves as the keepers of conservative thought.
They wrote books, founded magazines, appeared on Sunday shows, and made fortunes telling Republicans what to think.
Then Trump showed up and proved none of them mattered.
Trump bypassed the gatekeepers and they can't forgive him for it
Gutfeld zeroed in on why the conservative establishment became Trump's most vicious enemies.
"I'm gonna use the never Trumper conservatives. Why were they the most extreme in their dislike for Trump? Because he exposed to them that they actually were not the voice of conservatism, and that upset them," Gutfeld explained.³
These people sat in their offices at National Review and The Weekly Standard, smoking cigars, quoting William F. Buckley Jr., and genuinely believing they spoke for conservative America.
Trump bypassed them completely.
He filled stadiums while they struggled to fill conference rooms.
He won the Presidency while they got humiliated trying to recruit some sacrificial lamb like Evan McMullin to run against him.
"For years, I was going after the politically correct and I was saying all these things, and he came in, and just blew it up. And that should have been me!" Gutfeld confessed.⁴
That's the core of it.
Trump did what these people claimed they wanted done — destroyed political correctness, fought the media, defended American workers — and they resented him for succeeding where they failed.
The cool kids table just realized nobody's listening
Gutfeld connected the psychological wound to Hollywood and the late night comedy establishment that's been melting down over Trump since 2015.
"That is behind all of the resentment about Trump in the entertainment industry and in the world of politics," Gutfeld said.⁵
He used a devastating analogy to explain what happened.
"Here is the way I look at late night talk shows. Imagine this amazing high school. Tens of thousands of people and there is one cool table off on the side," Gutfeld said.⁶
That "cool table" represented the media and entertainment elite who thought they controlled what Americans were allowed to say and think.
The New York Times, CNN, Hollywood celebrities, late night hosts — they all sat together congratulating themselves on their moral superiority.
"You come in, and they invite you to that table, and you go, I'm good. I'm going out with these people. That created a crisis and confidence in those people when they suddenly realized that their views are not held by everybody else," Gutfeld explained.⁷
Trump looked at their invitation, laughed, and walked straight past them to sit with actual Americans.
He didn't need their approval, their endorsements, or their permission.
"They realized that sitting at that table, they were talking to themselves, and nobody cares," Gutfeld concluded.⁸
The establishment spent 2016 through 2020 trying to destroy Trump because he proved they were irrelevant.
They impeached him twice, indicted him four times, tried to bankrupt him, and even let an assassin nearly kill him.
None of it worked because Trump never needed them in the first place.
Benny Johnson, who interviewed Gutfeld at AmFest, praised the analysis as the most insightful explanation of Trump Derangement Syndrome he'd ever heard.
Trump hatred was never about policy, competence, or character.
The rage comes from one source: Trump proved the Never Trumpers and establishment media were irrelevant grifters who never spoke for anyone except themselves, and they'll never forgive him for it.
¹ David Greyson, "AmFest 2025: Greg Gutfeld Reveals Why Certain People Resent President Trump (VIDEO)," The Gateway Pundit, December 20, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
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