Dr. Phil's Road From Oprah to ICE Raids
About three hours in, seated inside the Dallas mega-mansion where he is steering his herky-jerk transition from daytime TV behemoth to MAGA-friendly newsman, the once-licensed psychologist was giving no ground on what seemed to me an obvious point.
'I don't think I'm qualified to talk about politics,' he said, steepling his fingers in contemplation. And so, he insisted, he really hadn't.
This was difficult to square with recent events.
In the last two years, Dr. Phil (surname: McGraw) had ended his flagship talk show and created his own news and entertainment network, trafficking daily in conservative-coded subjects — 'Dr. Phil: The Hidden Gem in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill,'' 'Dr. Phil Investigates: Are Schools Secretly Transitioning Your Child?' — in an unswerving crusade against 'the woke left.'
He had spoken glowingly of President Trump as an invited guest at Mr. Trump's Madison Square Garden campaign rally, at a White House faith event and at a recent Texas flood briefing, where the president interrupted himself after spotting Dr. Phil — 'There's Dr. Phil. Look at Dr. Phil. You're looking good, Phil. This is a hell of a situation, isn't it?' — and later asked him to address the bereaved.
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