(THR) On Tuesday, talk show host John Phillips, a Trump supporter, appeared on the news network and discussed the GOP presidential nominee’s controversial week.

“Over the last few days, I’m not surprised to see people running for the hills,” Phillips said. “The last 72 hours for Donald Trump have been the political equivalent of Chris Farley’s final 72 hours on planet Earth.”

Okay, on the surface it looks like this is an accusation of Trump committing political death by being out of control. However, the “people running for the hills” is the more telling part of this comment. Phillips appears to be a 27 percenter.  Chris Farley as an example really doesn’t seem relevant to the discussion. Instead, it’s a distraction from his point – that people are being traitors and abandoning Trump. He’s laying the ground work for shifting the blame of Trump’s possible Presidential election loss away from Trump and on traitorous supporters.