Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

https://www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

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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db2@lemmy.world · 210 pts · 294d (12 replies)

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.

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 132 pts · 294d (9 replies)

Here it is

blave@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 294d (6 replies)

That is a cello

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 52 pts · 294d (4 replies)

That's a tardigrade

humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 293d (3 replies)

I think we have to call them regardigrades now.

UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 293d (1 reply)

My brain first read that as "retardigrades" and now I feel like I'm going to hell

humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d

Then you got the joke 😝

Zoot@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 293d

I just call em Reggies for short

Lon3star@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 294d

And I'm jello... Bayyyybeeee

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 294d

I’m having trouble making it out, but it’s definitely there.

FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 293d

Damn, look at him go.

Gonna out play the devil for sure.

andros_rex@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 293d

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.”

AtariDump@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d

SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 172 pts · 294d (17 replies)

Has Oprah apologized for promoting this POS yet?

FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 113 pts · 294d (3 replies)

She never will.

db2@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 293d (2 replies)

She's probably on the list.

acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Epstein's?

psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 293d

Jenny Craig's

etherphon@midwest.social · 46 pts · 293d (12 replies)
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RaoulDuke@fedia.io · 90 pts · 293d (1 reply)
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Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 293d

Indeed.

It sickens me.

Netux@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 293d

Hiding in her plantation in Hawaii next to Zuckerberg. She didn't become a billionaire by being a good person.

Horsey@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 293d (3 replies)

In her 70s, retired lol.

etherphon@midwest.social · 28 pts · 293d (2 replies)
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phdepressed@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 293d (1 reply)

I'm sure she's funding/doing some nefarious things. Doing so is like a cover fee for the billionaire club.

brax@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 293d

Wasn't she shilling foreskin face cream, or has she moved on from that?

Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 293d (4 replies)

Doesn't she own an island in Hawaii?

mx_smith@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 293d (3 replies)

No, she has a house in Maui.

Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 293d (2 replies)

Ok, so not an island but said house is on her excessive amount of property.

ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 293d

Good gawd, no wonder the native Hawaiians are angry

FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 11 pts · 293d

That's massive.

100@fedia.io · 119 pts · 294d (12 replies)

what kind of loser does this at age 75 and doesnt retire with all their money?

Windex007@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 294d (2 replies)

Giuliani.

That fucking idiot could have lived the rest of his life as America's Mayor. Instead he decided to be a fucking joke.

N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 293d (1 reply)

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.

harmbugler@piefed.social · 24 pts · 293d

The most dangerous place in New York is between Rudy and a microphone

the_q@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 293d (2 replies)
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13igTyme@piefed.social · 11 pts · 293d

If only lead poisoning was more deadly in adults. Problem would have solved itself decades ago.

psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d

Also those lead deposits in their brain now getting energized by 5g and rattling around.

tortina_original@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Narcissism.

That is the cause of most of world's troubles.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 5 pts · 293d

Well, that and general psychological insecurity.

binarytobis@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 293d (1 reply)

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.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d

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.

Aunt_Iffa@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 293d

Dumb people with too big of egos!

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 292d

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.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 294d (5 replies)

Aw! I love this for him! Way to go, Dr. Phil! I'm rooting for your complete collapse and fall into obscurity.

tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 294d (3 replies)

No, keep him out of obscurity! I’m in obscurity and I don’t want that fucker here!

Put him in the past.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 294d (2 replies)

Please don't. I'm stuck in the past and he really doesn't fit in well here either.

FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Just feed him to a langolier.

Aeao@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 293d

Langolier here. Ew gross

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 294d

Personally I'd like to continue enjoying his public ridicule. The guy is trash

derry@midwest.social · 90 pts · 294d (3 replies)

Which one Dr Phil and guest dressed as Dr Phil

ohellidk@sh.itjust.works · 59 pts · 294d (2 replies)

The bumfights guy trolled the piss out of Phil!

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 293d

He fucking nailed the tie.

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 293d

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

roguetrick@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 293d

Undeterred, McGraw quickly launched Envoy Media Company with Steve Harvey

The clown show carries on.

boaratio@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 293d (5 replies)

Oprah is responsible for doing so much damage.

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 293d (3 replies)

yep she spread so much misinformation even before she gave those two quacks airtime. She's basically the female version of Joe Rogan

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 293d (2 replies)

she gave those two quacks airtime

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

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 293d

And antivax Jenny McCarthy

boaratio@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d

That guy is a monster.

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 293d

But she did give us Abby's weird obsession with her on broad city which was consistently hillarious.

I miss broad city.

aramis87@fedia.io · 66 pts · 293d (3 replies)

Undeterred, McGraw quickly launched Envoy Media Company with Steve Harvey, proposing a "citizen journalism" platform.

Ugh, yet another Republican grifter ....

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 293d (2 replies)

Not a very good one apparently, if his ass is broke

chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 293d (1 reply)

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.

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 293d

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.

skisnow@lemmy.ca · 65 pts · 293d

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

peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 293d

Fuck that fake ass grifter motherfucker, piece of shit.

Zier@fedia.io · 41 pts · 293d (3 replies)

I hope this exploiting narcissist ends up homeless & destitute.

quoll@lemmy.sdf.org · 18 pts · 293d

hope he ends up on bum fights

MITM0@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 293d (1 reply)

Agreed. This punk needs to live the lives of the people he humiliates

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d

He could always be given a full handle of vodka before being humiliated on national television

chunes@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 293d

I'm shocked a man who exploited people going through crises decided to align with trump

manxu@piefed.social · 39 pts · 293d

There is probably a pasture where Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, and all the other (literal) losers roam. Dr. Phil can join them there!

aceshigh@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 293d (3 replies)

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.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 292d (2 replies)

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.

aceshigh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d (1 reply)

You’re forgetting dr oz…

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d

I'm certainly trying.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 293d (8 replies)

Been hating that bastard for decades.

KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 51 pts · 293d (7 replies)

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.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 293d (4 replies)

Dr. Phil is a really good example of the wider societal problem in the USA that created Trump.

Oprah?

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 293d (2 replies)

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.

Hawk@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 292d

Dr. Oz is an excellent example. A highly skilled surgeon that found it more profitable to shill rubbish to stay at home moms.

PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 292d

Oprah is Joe Rogan for people who are embarrassed to admit they listen to Joe Rogan.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d

That whole era of reality tv

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 293d (1 reply)

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

KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 293d

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.

dmtalon@infosec.pub · 29 pts · 294d (2 replies)

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)

Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 294d (1 reply)

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.

TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 294d

The real American dream.

notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 293d

He looks like a roll-on deodorant.

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 293d (1 reply)

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.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 292d

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.

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 293d (5 replies)

This fucking guy is still around?

mostNONheinous@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 293d (4 replies)

Looking younger everyday somehow

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 293d (2 replies)

Truly the best Dr Phil, after Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince. Wait, he was a doctor, right?

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 293d (1 reply)

I assume he had a JD, yeah

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 293d

Jelly donut? Jealous.

alternategait@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
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frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 20 pts · 293d (4 replies)

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.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 293d (2 replies)

and here I thought I was the only one.

he can join Sylvia Browne in hell.

brax@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 293d (1 reply)

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.

SuperEars@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d

Nah man, they’re all going to heaven.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 292d

he will be probably end up as a participant in the bum fights from the bum fights guy on his show.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 294d

Oh no! Anyways…

JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 293d (2 replies)
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 293d (1 reply)

He's been broadly opposed by the left for years now. His rampant ablism and radical pro torturing children positions being the primary reasons.

boaratio@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 293d

I think both sides should oppose him. He got his "doctorate" the university of North Texas online. He's not a real doctor.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 293d (2 replies)

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.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 293d (1 reply)

This is not a good guy who strayed from the path, he's always been a piece of shit

rumba@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 293d

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.

Suffa@lemmy.wtf · 15 pts · 292d

RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 293d

TIL he is still around. Hadn't heard anything about Dr. Phil in a decade or more

minorkeys@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 294d

Just another sycophant, an opportunist looking to grab for power off the back of the truck that is US democracy.

crawancon@piefed.social · 13 pts · 293d (2 replies)

I love this for him. Bless his heart.

/s, if not evident

Wolf@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 292d (1 reply)

I never really watched his show but he always gave me the ick. Now I know why.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 292d

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.

monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 293d (2 replies)

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.

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 292d

Apparently he didnt.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 292d

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.

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 293d

He can always lean into his doctor status.... Oh Wait!

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 292d

If only it were real.

60d@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 294d (1 reply)

I'm here for the redemption arc where he gets us the Epstein files.

Naz@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 293d

Holy shit

Theprogressivist@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 294d

Good.

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 293d

unabart@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 292d (1 reply)

And tonight… tonight the leopards shall feast on the egg headed carrion.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 292d

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.

LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 293d

So good things can happen still... Maybe this timeline isn't the absolute worst one

Octavio@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 293d
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Etterra@discuss.online · 7 pts · 292d

Hahahahaha!

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 294d

Aww... poor dipshit.

Visikde@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 292d

FRO Oprah for making this grifter famous

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 292d

With any luck, the next thing we see from this grifter will be his obituary.

JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d

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.

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 293d

Some are more equal than others. Or why Thiel stands to make more money with his giant surveillance scheme than that quack doctor.

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 293d
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Reygle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d

Good. Carry on.

morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 293d

Just look at his face and you can tell he's been through multiple total collapses

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 293d

BAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 293d

Good. Maybe then I can unblock the carrier channel