MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has stated that President Donald Trump is “completely panicking” in response to the protests over the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) immigration raids.
Throughout the handover between Maddow and fellow MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday evening (June 9), the hosts mentioned Trump’s deployment of the Nationwide Guard in Los Angeles in his try and quell the continuing protests.
Maddow argued Trump’s actions are proof he has “no freaking concept” how to answer the protests. “He’s determined that he’s throwing all of it out. You recognize, dictator from day one,’ and , going to terminate elements of the Structure. And he’s determined that he doesn’t matter what Congress does, and it doesn’t matter what the courts do, that he’s simply the robust man he’s going to be. He’s determined to throw out all the foundations.”
The veteran information anchor stated all of this has made Trump “very boring,” stating, “It’s prefer it’s all on the desk. We all know precisely what he’s doing. We all know precisely what his intentions are. He’s blonde Berlusconi. That is, I imply, he’s simply making an attempt to do the identical factor all the opposite strongmen and would-be dictators do all around the nation.”
For Maddow, she stated the “actually attention-grabbing query” is what the American individuals let him get away with. “We’re seeing a very attention-grabbing take a look at of that proper now, all around the nation, particularly this week,” she continued.
O’Donnell added his ideas, saying that it seems the advisors round Trump throughout his first time period probably prevented him from doing issues that have been unlawful, similar to deploying the Nationwide Guard with out the approval of a governor. Now, his present advisors seemingly don’t have any qualms with the president breaking guidelines.
“We are able to in all probability intuit that what he’s being informed is, ‘Yeah, it’s unlawful, due to this fact, go do it.’ I believe that the extra legal guidelines he breaks, the extra blatantly unconstitutional issues he each proposes and tries, I believe the extra they suppose energy accrues to him as a result of he’s much less constrained by issues that don’t really cease him,” Maddow responded.
She added, “He’s deeply, deeply, deeply unpopular and underwater on each subject, and he’s completely panicked by the protests towards him, to the purpose the place he’s already enjoying the most important playing cards that he’s gotten. He’s not even six months into this time period. I simply suppose, I believe we’re getting the take a look at actually early, and I believe that he’s failing.”
You possibly can watch Maddow and O’Donnell’s full dialogue within the video above.
The Final Phrase With Lawrence O’Donnell, Weeknights, 10/9 c, MSNBC
The Rachel Maddow Present, Mondays, 9/8c, MSNBC