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The ‘Joes’ are a group of devoted MAGA supporters who follow Trump around the country Become an Independent member to bookmark this article Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Some members of President Donald Trump’s “Front Row Joes” loyalists have turned during his second term, with one denouncing him as a “fraud and a liar.”
特朗普总统第二任期内，一些“前排乔伊兹”的忠实支持者已转而反对他，其中一人斥责他是“骗子和谎话精”。“乔伊兹”是一群忠实的“让美国再次伟大”支持者，他们跟随特朗普走遍全国。为了占到最佳座位，他们会在竞选集会和演讲活动开始前睡在会场外。随着中期选举临近，他们的态度可能为共和党敲响警钟。两名知名成员特尽管作为“乔伊”团体创始成员的弗雷泽与霍普有着同样的挫败感，但他承认这两人毕竟只是两个人，并表示该团体95%的成员立场“坚定不移”。不过，他也指出了与霍普相同的离团原因。
The “Joes” are a group of devoted MAGA supporters who follow Trump around the country, sleeping outside venues ahead of campaign rallies and speeches to get the best seat. With the midterm elections around the corner, their opinion could ring alarm bells for Republicans. Two prominent members, Trisha Hope and Rick Frazier, have split from the group after becoming disillusioned with Trump over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and the war in Iran, they told Politico. Hope, a self-declared “J6 activist” who joined the Joes in 2018, said that she lost faith in the president after he vented his frustrations about Epstein at a Cabinet meeting in July 2025. “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?”Trump fumed at a reporter.
“爱泼斯坦的罪行以及向军工复合体输送利益……对我来说，这些都是绝对不可接受的，”这位参加过100多场特朗普集会的弗雷泽告诉《政治报》。“他把自己宣传为一位反战总统，但结果并非如此。”居住在俄亥俄州的弗雷泽表示，他感到如此沮丧，以至于11月的大选他可能连投票都不会去。
“This guy’s been talked about for years.”Hope, from Texas, described that moment as “a dagger in my heart” to Politico. “It was like a light switch went on and a veil lifted, and I saw him for who he was, and I have not been able to unsee it since,” she added. Trump’s war with Iran, now in its eighth month, cemented Hope’s view of the president. “He’s said the war is over 600 different times,” she said. “He tells us they don't have a military, they don’t have a navy. They’re still blowing up things. It’s just all lies.”
7月，特朗普在佐治亚州的一场集会上推广其“特朗普账户”投资计划时，赞扬了该团体的忠诚。
Hope is so fed up with the president that she said she would support an impeachment. “If we do lose the midterms and he is impeached again, I will be walking the halls of Congress in support of that impeachment,” she said.
“前排的乔伊们，我爱这些人，”他说，“我爱这些人。我想大约有280人……我不知道他们到底在干什么，我觉得他们也很赚钱。”“我听说他们非常富有。他们跟着我们。这就像一场摇滚音乐会，对吧？大家玩得很开心，对吧？谢谢。他们从一开始就支持我，”他说道。
While Frazier, a founding member of the Joes, shares Hope’s frustrations, he acknowledged the pair are just two people and said that 95 percent of the group are “unwavering.”Still, he pointed to the same issues as Hope for departing. “Epstein crimes and feeding the industrial military complex…those are big nos for me,” Frazier, who has attended more than 100 Trump rallies, told Politico. “He promoted himself as a no-war president. That didn’t work out.”
当时，霍普因特朗普声称该团体成员“富有”而猛烈抨击了他。“这完全暴露了他对这些人为支持他所做出的牺牲一无所知，”她说。
Frazier, who lives in Ohio, said he is so frustrated he may not even vote in November. Trump praised the devotion of the group at a July rally in Georgia as he promoted his “Trump Accounts” investment program.
“他们根本不赚钱！！”霍普继续说道。“事实上，参加这些活动需要花费他们大量的金钱和时间。有时他们整夜开车只为排队入场，当无法开车时，他们还得花钱买机票。”其他前特朗普铁杆支持者也在其第二任期内因爱泼斯坦案和伊朗问题而对总统感到失望，包括前众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林和右翼评论员塔克·卡尔森。
“The Front Row Joes, I love these people,” he said. “I love these people. I think there are about 280… I don’t know what the hell they do, I think they make a lot of money, too.”“I’m hearing they’re very rich. They follow us. It’s a rock concert right? You have a good time, right? Thank you. They’ve been with me right from the beginning,” he said. Hope hit out at Trump at the time over his assertion that the group was “rich.”“This shows me how absolutely clueless he is on what these folks have sacrificed in order to support him,” she said.
他们并非孤例。据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）报道，特朗普正面临中期选举，目前高达50%的美国人对他的工作表现持强烈不赞成态度——这一数字打破了他2018年中期选举前创下的反对率纪录。
“They DO NOT MAKE MONEY!!”Hope continued. “In fact it costs them a GREAT deal of money and time to attend. They drive sometimes all night to get in line, they spend money on flights when driving isn’t an option.”Other former Trump loyalists have soured on the president during his second term over the Epstein case and Iran, including ex-congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson.
白宫在之前的声明中驳回了不利的民调结果。“特朗普总统是共和党无可争议的领袖、最佳传播者和无与伦比的激励者，他致力于保持共和党在国会的多数席位，”一位发言人表示。
They are not alone. Trump is approaching the midterm elections with a historic 50 percent of Americans strongly disapproving of his job performance — shattering the rejection record he set before the 2018 midterms, according to CNN. The White House dismissed unfavorable polling in a previous statement. “President Trump is the unequivocal leader, best messenger, and unmatched motivator for the Republican Party, and he is committed to maintaining Republican majorities in Congress,” a spokesman said.
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