I don’t see where a firestorm over this could legitimately come from. Trump identifies three distinct groups:
“The Republican Party”
“Conservatives”
And “the base”
With “the base” having broken promises made to it by “The Republican Party” and “Conservatives”
The wording is inelegant, but the explicit differentiation of “the base” makes the overall intent clear. At most this feeds into the charge that Trump is too much of a Twitter addict, but nothing more.
Conservatives as defined by the media?
Trump is correct, didn’t do what the base wants.
Conservatives defined by Freepers?
We have been fighting the Republican party as well, and feel that we are the base.