As President Donald Trump appears to surround himself more and more with comforting figures, conservative commentator Rick Wilson says some key allies are desperate for it all to end — a mood he summed up with their refrain: "Come, sweet meteor of death."

Wilson, a vocal anti-Trump conservative and co-founder of The Lincoln Project — the anti-Trump political organization formed by current and former Republicans — appeared on the latest edition of the "Fast Politics" podcast, where host Molly Jong-Fast opened the conversation with news about the people who traveled with Trump to a recent midterm rally in Dayton, Ohio. Midterm elections, held in November halfway through a president's term, decide every House seat and roughly one-third of the Senate — contests in which the party holding the White House has historically tended to lose seats. The two dubbed the group the "Bad Idea caucus," and it included close aide Natalie Harp, personal senior counsel Boris Epshteyn, former acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, former congressman Darrell Issa, current congressman Dusty Johnson and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Wilson offered his "theory of the case" for this particular crew of Trump allies, arguing that while the president should be surrounding himself with operationally important people — chief of staff Suzie Wiles, 2024 advisor Chris LaCivita, pollster Tony Fabrizio and midterm operations manager James Blair — he is instead opting for his "core binkie team", a term circulated to describe the close allies Trump relies on for personal comfort.

"This seems more like the people who make him feel good," Wilson said. "And I gotta tell you I have a real skepticism about whether Suzie's got any hand left at all on the tiller, right?"

Wilson added that he has heard from a few Republicans about LaCivita and Fabrizio — two of the biggest elections and polling experts closest to Trump — and that they are increasingly desperate for an end to the mess the administration has become, especially as they see a disaster headed for the GOP in the midterms.

"I have heard from a couple Republicans that Fabrizio and LaCivita are now in, like, the 'Come, sweet meteor of death, take us all' phase of their careers," Wilson explained.

Jong-Fast added that the reaction is almost certainly a result of the midterm polling Fabrizio is seeing, especially now that he is collaborating with fellow pollster John Anzalone of the Harvard Institute of Politics. She described the pair as "the killers" with "really good track records" in polling, noting that Fabrizio in particular is "the gold standard for Republican polling," with Anzalone holding much the same standing on the Democratic side.

"And John has shown that, like, the bottom has f——ing fallen out for Republicans," Jong-Fast said.

"And here's one of the things about election polling, and my son Andrew and I were talking about this the other day because he's a pollster," Wilson added. "Very rarely do the numbers get better in the last month of a campaign, but they also don't dramatically drop out — but what we're seeing now, if you look at the New York Times/Siena poll from just this morning, the numbers are dropping out."