MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow ripped into President Donald Trump Monday night as she blasted his latest political threats against his own party as a desperate attempt to salvage his deeply unpopular MAGA agenda.
“Today, Donald Trump started threatening Republican U.S. senators that they better not vote against him this week on this tariffs bill,” Maddow told viewers about the looming Senate vote that she gave “precisely zero chance of becoming law.” Still, Trump appeared panicked that GOP senators might oppose him publicly, the MSNBC host added.
“Trump appears to be freaking out that Republican senators are going to vote against him on it because his tariff adventures are rating somewhere between lice and bedbugs in terms of their popularity with the American people,” she said. “And what Republican senator wouldn't want to distance him or herself from that?”
With Trump’s approval ratings sagging under the weight of his unpopular policies, Maddow noted that Republicans are increasingly wary of tying themselves to a president pushing an agenda most Americans reject.
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“He's doing things that the American people hate the idea of, and then when he executes them, executes on those things, he fails,” she said. “Bad ideas done badly.”
Maddow warned that Trump and his administration are likely to take even more extreme actions to change the political narrative, pointing to recent controversies, including the wrongful deportation of U.S. citizens and the arrest of a judge.
“It's insane,” she concluded. “I think that we should expect some wild pitches, some truly reckless actions to try to change the trajectory of how things are going, to try to make it seem like this is a new game.”
But Maddow wasn’t done painting the grim portrait of the Trump White House as the MAGA leader prepares to mark the 100th day of his second term.
“We should expect that there are going to be some things ahead that are markedly more horrible than even what they have done already,” she said.
