‘Ridiculous and cruel’: Rachel Maddow warns Trump’s ‘slapdash’ agenda poised to backfire

Rachel Maddow unleashed a verbal takedown of the Trump administration over the growing number of immigration-related arrests and deportations that have unfolded nationwide, which the MSNBC host said is also having an unintended effect on the president.

“This doesn’t happen in a vacuum,” Maddow said Thursday during her show’s opening monologue as she walked viewers through a review of protests opposing President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown.

“It’s never just one thing that works in terms of resistance,” she added.

The primetime host told viewers that while the media attention is “depressing because of the subject matter," it is also "incisive investigative press coverage,” that can help lead the way to more information about what Trump’s MAGA administration is engaging in.

“It does have the effect of exposing the shambolic and slapdash and utterly incompetent behavior of the Trump administration as it embarks on this cruel and unconstitutional adventure for which it wants to be feared and respected, and instead they look ridiculous and cruel in equal measure,” Maddow said.

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“And that has the effect of shaping public opinion about what they're doing and that fuels not just protests and lots of them, but also lawsuits,” she added.

Maddow concluded that “legal roadblocks” coupled with “the tide of incisive investigative press about what the administration is doing” inevitably "turn up yet more information about what Trump is doing and who he's hurting."

“And all of that information builds the public case further, galvanizes more public opinion against them, and more protest against them," she said. "And you know what? If you keep eventually going like this, this stuff snowballs and it builds on itself.”

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