Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report
Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure and financial turmoil, according to a new report.
Since the start of Trump's presidency, ex-psychologist and famed TV doctor McGraw positioned himself as an active participant in the administration. He became a firsthand witness to ICE raids, a critic of protests, and an ever-present volunteer for the executive branch — attending events like RFK Jr.'s swearing-in and appearing with Trump after the Texas flooding.
Dozens of employees have been laid off as it averaged just 27,000 weekly viewers, broadcasting partnerships floundered and, in July, it filed for bankruptcy.
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He's not a doctor, they took that away.
Also, I think I hear the world's smallest violin playing a mournful tune just for him.
Here it is
That is a cello
That's a tardigrade
I think we have to call them regardigrades now.
My brain first read that as "retardigrades" and now I feel like I'm going to hell
Then you got the joke 😝
I just call em Reggies for short
And I'm jello... Bayyyybeeee
I’m having trouble making it out, but it’s definitely there.
Damn, look at him go.
Gonna out play the devil for sure.
They took that away because he fucked a teenage patient. College kid came to him for depression, he gave her a job and had sex with her.
They were going to supervise his practice and let him keep his license, but he gave it up rather than submit to supervision.
There are a couple of stories of addicts on his show being offered drugs before they went on to make them relapse/seem worse. The show was basically an exploitation of people desperate enough to take public humiliation in exchange for mental health “help.”
I think he’s in part responsible for a lot of terrible attitudes about mental health - a popular understanding that “tough love” is a helpful approach, a refusal to acknowledge the impact of trauma… A general problem with America seems to be viewing TV show personalities as “experts.”
Has Oprah apologized for promoting this POS yet?
She never will.
She's probably on the list.
Epstein's?
Jenny Craig's
Indeed.
It sickens me.
Hiding in her plantation in Hawaii next to Zuckerberg. She didn't become a billionaire by being a good person.
In her 70s, retired lol.
I'm sure she's funding/doing some nefarious things. Doing so is like a cover fee for the billionaire club.
Wasn't she shilling foreskin face cream, or has she moved on from that?
Doesn't she own an island in Hawaii?
No, she has a house in Maui.
Ok, so not an island but said house is on her excessive amount of property.
That's massive.
Good gawd, no wonder the native Hawaiians are angry
what kind of loser does this at age 75 and doesnt retire with all their money?
Giuliani.
That fucking idiot could have lived the rest of his life as America's Mayor. Instead he decided to be a fucking joke.
Narcissism gives a person an insatiable appetite for attention. Giuliani couldn't gracefully fade into obscurity any more than he could sprout wings and fly away.
If only lead poisoning was more deadly in adults. Problem would have solved itself decades ago.
Also those lead deposits in their brain now getting energized by 5g and rattling around.
Narcissism.
That is the cause of most of world's troubles.
Well, that and general psychological insecurity.
I really hate that all these horrible people refuse to retire with all of the money they’ve cheated out of people over the years. Social workers retire. Teachers retire. Firemen retire. But apparently making sure as many people die as possible is so much fun it gives these ghouls the energy they need to keep going.
At a certain level of wealth, it becomes about the power you have over people. There's only so much personal consumption of material things you can actually engage in, then the pleasure comes from bending people to your will. If you retire and hide yourself away, there aren't many people around to command.
Dumb people with too big of egos!
they want a legacy, and attention. if you have been in media talk show host for a long time, you wouldnt want to give up that spotlight.
Aw! I love this for him! Way to go, Dr. Phil! I'm rooting for your complete collapse and fall into obscurity.
No, keep him out of obscurity! I’m in obscurity and I don’t want that fucker here!
Put him in the past.
Please don't. I'm stuck in the past and he really doesn't fit in well here either.
Just feed him to a langolier.
Langolier here. Ew gross
Personally I'd like to continue enjoying his public ridicule. The guy is trash
Which one
The bumfights guy trolled the piss out of Phil!
He fucking nailed the tie.
Funny story, that dude isn't even the bum fights guy. That was a marketing stunt by the people who bought the rights to bum fights off this guy. The vid was pretty interesting.
https://youtu.be/6qtWO48vtjg
The clown show carries on.
Oprah is responsible for doing so much damage.
yep she spread so much misinformation even before she gave those two quacks airtime. She's basically the female version of Joe Rogan
Don't forget the other quack "psychic surgeon" she did a segment on who turned out to be a serial rapist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Teixeira_de_Faria
And antivax Jenny McCarthy
That guy is a monster.
But she did give us Abby's weird obsession with her on broad city which was consistently hillarious.
I miss broad city.
Ugh, yet another Republican grifter ....
Not a very good one apparently, if his ass is broke
Republican grifters work best when Republicans don't have all the power. They can blame all your issues on the libs and the communists and support people who will never win like Ron Paul and rake in millions. When they are in charge, the people they have to blame gets silly. Deep state, Jewish cabal of Globalists etc works for a short while, but then all the changes they said will make everything better go into place and things get even worse.
Even worse for them is those who straddled the line to be able to market to whoever was in charge (the Phil's, Harveys, Ozes etc) decide to either join the "strong" or just finally stop faking who they were in the first place and find themselves in an oversaturated sea of people pulling the same grift. With ever poorer marks.
Also, the 1% are indiscriminate in their greed. Sooner or later they will forget who their power base is, and suck up the money that feeds it.
Conservatism has no sense of why conservation is good for an ecosystem. Be it ecological or fiscal.
Good news: Nazi cheerleader goes out of business
Bad news: It's because there's so many Nazi cheerleaders in 2025 that they saturated their market, and (per the article) he failed for not being Nazi enough
Fuck that fake ass grifter motherfucker, piece of shit.
I hope this exploiting narcissist ends up homeless & destitute.
hope he ends up on bum fights
Agreed. This punk needs to live the lives of the people he humiliates
He could always be given a full handle of vodka before being humiliated on national television
I'm shocked a man who exploited people going through crises decided to align with trump
There is probably a pasture where Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, and all the other (literal) losers roam. Dr. Phil can join them there!
Remember when Britney Spears had her first breakdown and dr. Phil volunteered to help her and then he told the tabloids about it? Yeah. His current actions line up.
This is standard tier Oprah Slop. She had a conga line of hacks and grifters plugging their snake oil on her show, decade after decade. Phil McGraw is simply one of the most successful.
You’re forgetting dr oz…
I'm certainly trying.
Been hating that bastard for decades.
Dr. Phil is a really good example of the wider societal problem in the USA that created Trump. The fact that this man was allowed to have a prime-time TV show on mainstream network, instead of being universally shunned, was clear proof there was something deeply wrong with this country pre-2015.
This man's initial wealth came from running a membership scheme at a Spa; he then surrendered his license because he refuses to follow "Continuing Education" courses and follow ethics guidelines, so he could focus on his show of humiliating and mocking traumatized and mentally disabled kids; then trafficking them to plantations, on which he was involved with a reality TV show. Dr. Phil is a sick monster of a man, and by all means deserves everything horrible that happens to him; if not for being an ICE Nazi, then for abusing more kids than states' loudest pro-Trump pastors.
Oprah?
Oprah is like the Ronald Reagan of talk shows. She gave a platform to multiple destructive people that have continued to haunt us far after they launched on her show. Dr. Oz. Dr. Phil. Jenny McCarthy, John of God, etc.
Dr. Oz is an excellent example. A highly skilled surgeon that found it more profitable to shill rubbish to stay at home moms.
Oprah is Joe Rogan for people who are embarrassed to admit they listen to Joe Rogan.
That whole era of reality tv
What pre-2015?
I'm talking 90's.
I was young but already shocked to see his trash show where he spouts backwards conservative morals on European TV channels.
That has nothing to do with Trump, more with what the US is.
AndI blame your fascist-lite D party just the same for the situation you are now in.
Al they did was go back half a step after 5 further to the right by R.
And this intentionally since their leaders work for the same masters.
And I blame the dumb population for letting it happen.
They get what they deserve.
All good since it hastens the already rapid decline of US imperialism and scumbaggery
Totally agree about the USA and Democrats. Dr. Phil is that inhuman "Third Line", hating people in what Democrats and Republicans alike saw as the "right" ways. He's the worst type of monster, because he preys on the most vulnerable under the guise of "morality"; using his technically-valid title and the fame and money he has to exploit more kids for more fame and money.
It didn't start in the "90s". This is the way
the USA- hell, Western Catholic civilization - has always been. Dr. Phil embodies the head of a "crisis pregnancy" center that guilt-trips a young woman seeking abortion; the leader of the gay-erasure teen retreat; the priest that tells a young boy to keep quiet; the hospital doctor that holds an unwilling patient under a "protection" law; the Karen who requests a "wellness check" on their neighbors of color; the prison medic who sterilizes an unconscious indigenous woman; the suburban moms shrieking "For The Children"; the dentist signing their patients up for a "Care Credit" card while they're under anesthesia. Cruelty under the guise of kindness; wiping its hands clean on the letter of the law.He looks like a roll-on deodorant.
Well unless he's a total moron and not just playing one on TV he already made all his money from all the gullible people over the last 25 years so, why's he care?
Unless he pulls a my pillow guy he could just back into the shadows and live his life a lot better off than the rest of us.
(I did not read the article, just making assumptions)
This is probably what happens. I dont see this dude fighting for shit. I see him crawling into the shadows, having a side piece and yelling at the lawn guys.
The real American dream.
There is not enough money to support all the grifters. Indirect proof that MAGA and other right wing movements are bots astroturfed by bullies and idiots.
he came into the game too late. the og ones, shapiro, owens, POOLE, crowder, or iginally kirk were there first. seems alot of "streamers of games are trying to get into the biz too" i used to followed some asian ytubers that are trying to get into grifting from the right, because they trashed thier reputation through a series of incidents (one of them being extremely mysogynistic towards female employees that once worked for them)they caused and never owned up to. they hosted TULSI GABBARD last year on thier channel.
This fucking guy is still around?
Looking younger everyday somehow
Truly the best Dr Phil, after Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince. Wait, he was a doctor, right?
I assume he had a JD, yeah
Jelly donut? Jealous.
Wake me when he's dead so I can chuckle at the thought of his corpse rotting. Right now I'm still amused by thoughts of Charlie Kirk decomposing but that'll get stale soon enough.
and here I thought I was the only one.
he can join Sylvia Browne in hell.
Nah man, they're all going to heaven. Don't ruin Hell with these losers... They spend the their lives shilling the bible and making life as boring and lame as they could. They can enjoy their milquetoast monotony in heaven.
The good, cool people are all gonna be livin' it up in Hell where knowledge and pleasure are encouraged.
he will be probably end up as a participant in the bum fights from the bum fights guy on his show.
Oh no! Anyways…
Doc Phil was popular and well-liked once. He's gonna chase that feel forever, even if he has to burn the world down to find it again. What a maroon.
This is not a good guy who strayed from the path, he's always been a piece of shit
There seem to be quite a lot of rich idiots out there who think they're going to get a seat at the table because they openly proclaim support for the king. There are only so many keys, and they were handed out long ago. If you're not rich enough to fund them directly, they're not going to give you the time of day.
But when he destroys the life of a minority you don't like, it's fine.
Edit: paywall aparently
He's been broadly opposed by the left for years now. His rampant ablism and radical pro torturing children positions being the primary reasons.
I think both sides should oppose him. He got his "doctorate" the university of North Texas online. He's not a real doctor.
TIL he is still around. Hadn't heard anything about Dr. Phil in a decade or more
I love this for him. Bless his heart.
/s, if not evident
I never really watched his show but he always gave me the ick. Now I know why.
The most amount of his show I've seen is the segment when the bum fight dude came in dressed like him that gets circulated every few months.
Just another sycophant, an opportunist looking to grab for power off the back of the truck that is US democracy.
This guy doesn’t know that most of the activity online from MAGA are bots? He legit thought there were millions of people trying listen to his shenanigans. He needs to pay homage in order for Putin to boost his numbers.
you are forgetting another thing, hes competing with other right wing grifter who has alot of the market share. originally TP usa, OWENs, shapiro, crowder,,,,etc.
Apparently he didnt.
If only it were real.
He can always lean into his doctor status.... Oh Wait!
Good.
I'm here for the redemption arc where he gets us the Epstein files.
Holy shit
And tonight… tonight the leopards shall feast on the egg headed carrion.
I honestly wish they would start with the feet as to not hit any major arteries too soon. I feel bad for the employees, but doctor phil himself can go through all the pain, and I will watch it with a smile.
So good things can happen still... Maybe this timeline isn't the absolute worst one
Hahahahaha!
Aww... poor dipshit.
FRO Oprah for making this grifter famous
With any luck, the next thing we see from this grifter will be his obituary.
Some are more equal than others. Or why Thiel stands to make more money with his giant surveillance scheme than that quack doctor.
Seems less to do with his alignment and more shitty timing and bad business practices. A win is a win, but seems less the political alignment when others aligned this way aren't failing.
Good. Carry on.
Just look at his face and you can tell he's been through multiple total collapses
BAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Good. Maybe then I can unblock the carrier channel