CEO who powered ICE's technology now says Trump's deportations went too far

The CEO of Palantir, a controversial firm which supplies technology for immigration enforcement, says he agrees with President Donald Trump that the crackdown went too far.

Alex Karp made the remarks in an interview with Politico Playbook. He said he welcomed Trump’s recent admission of overreach, which he paraphrased loosely. “I’m glad he’s saying in public now what I’ve been saying in private,” Karp said.

According to Playbook, Palantir’s Immigration OS platform underpinned the administration’s enforcement push through a contract worth $30 million. The outlet says federal contracts brought the company billions of dollars in Trump’s second term, and that Karp gave money to MAGA Inc. and to the White House ballroom project.

Politico casts the interview as an about-face. Karp, a past critic of the Democratic Party, repeatedly described his outlook as progressive and said the party did enough this year to earn back his backing for 2028. He said he is a lifelong Democrat, that his donations go equally to both parties, and that voters punished Republicans over economic fairness.

Playbook reports the company brought on Jon Tester, the former Democratic senator from Montana, as an adviser as congressional investigations loom. Tester, who took part in the interview, told Karp to stay quiet about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Karp said he could support a Democrat for president in 2028, ruling out only members of the Democratic Socialists of America, and that competence would decide his vote.

Palantir was also founded by infamous, Antichrist-obsessed far-right billionaire Peter Thiel — though even Thiel in recent months has said he thinks Trump has made some blunders.