Ex ‘Front Row Joe’ comes up with brutal new nickname for Trump

One of Donald Trump’s most devoted fans has called it quits — and given the president a biting new nickname on his way out.Rick Frazier embraced the MAGA movement from the very beginning, drawn to Trump’s promises to “drain the swamp” and crack down on immigration. For years, his devotion was steadfast, but now Frazier is done with the Republican president, whom he described as “the king of the swamp.” In last week’s midterm elections, he even voted for Democratic candidates for Senate and governor.The 70-year-old Ohio resident and former factory worker became a “Front Row Joe,” joining a group of superfans who followed Trump to rallies across the country, The Washington Post reported. In 2024, he estimated he had attended more than 80 rallies.He also made trips to Mar-a-Lago — sporting a red “NO CRIMES” tie following Trump’s indictment in 2023 — and received a letter from Trump after his daughter died of a drug overdose.An ex ‘Front Row Joe’ has broken with President Donald Trump and offered him a biting new nickname following the midterm elections (Getty Images)His political reversal reflects a much broader shift in the country. Just two years ago, Trump swept all seven swing states to stage a historic White House comeback. But as his second term wore on, polls showed voters souring on him amid frustration over the Iran war and the cost of living. Last week, that discontent helped propel Democrats to victories in a string of red states and back into control of both the House and the Senate.Frazier told the Post that his views on the 80-year-old president shifted gradually, though he kept his doubts from other “Front Row Joes,” most of whom remained loyal to Trump.One turning point came when Trump resisted his supporters’ demands to release the government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein. Another former “Front Row Joe,” Trisha Hope, previously said she lost faith in the president over the same issue, after he vented his frustrations about Epstein at a Cabinet meeting in July 2025.Rick Frazier said he’s ‘going to go back to the way I was before Trump.’ Here, he is pictured at Mar-a-Lago in April 2023 (Getty Images)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.Frazier also bristled at Trump’s mockery of the word “affordability” and his attacks on Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, an outspoken critic of both the president and the Iran war.Another rupture came last December, when Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been serving a 45-year sentence for conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S.“See, that got me all upset,” he told the newspaper.Frazier says he is ready to look beyond party labels and support whichever candidate he considers best.“I’m kind of going to go back to the way I was before Trump,” he said. “I was independently swinging wherever the best guy was running. And that’s the way I think it should be.”