“Runaway Country” Host Alex Wagner said President Donald Trump’s own voters are feeling increasingly betrayed as his slumping economy continues to turn on them.
Wagner offered her opinion following a clip of a U.S. veteran telling Congressional lawmakers how he watched his wife, who had been in the U.S. for decades and was a Green Card holder, get arrested by ICE months after he voted for Trump in this last election.
“Why did you vote for him?” a member of Congress asked the veteran.
“Because I was an idiot,” answered the veteran. “Evangelical Christian people were lied to, if you really want to know the truth. And that's exactly what happened. They said ‘criminals [would be deported], and I believe criminals need to be off the street. … My wife and I, when we don't work, we're ministers. We help the needy. That's what we do. And that's who they're arresting.”
“If you look at the bottom of the screen, this is a panel about rising health care costs, which is like the double whammy,” Wagner told MS NOW Host Nicole Wallace. “[Trump] is debasing Americans. He is tearing families apart. And the central premise of his reelection, which was to make America more affordable, is a complete fallacy, a complete lie. In two weeks or thereabouts, Americans are going to see their health care costs skyrocket. I talked to someone whose health care premiums are going to go from $100 to $800 a month.”
“I mean, the center can't hold on this stuff,” Wagner added. “It is one thing to just not deliver, but to act in the way that he has, which is so dehumanizing, so cruel, and such a such a insult to not only the Americans who didn't vote for him but to the Americans who did, who believed in something — anything — about this man. This is why … we are seeing, I think, this week and in weeks prior, the beginnings of real cracks with this president and his base. I think that he is in significant trouble. And the stress is only going to increase in the coming month.”