Midterm Humiliation Has Trump Coping So Hard He’s Admitting His Immigration Crackdown Was ‘Too Tough’

Look, y’all, this historic midterm blowout has been rough on the MAGA world. The right-wing content creators are still crashing out online. Pundits and Republican officials are still generally clueless as to why they lost so badly. Justice Department officials are jumping ship.

And I don’t know, y’all, but the whole thing might have broken President Donald Trump’s already broken brain even further.

I wouldn’t even describe Trump’s reaction as a full crashout. We all expected him to be shouting from the MAGA mountaintop that the elections were all rigged and that the “Dumocrats” are all crooked, and fuming at any reporter who suggested otherwise. What I’m sure none of us expected is that Trump would entertain, even for a second, that his chaotic, oppressive, violent, and blatantly racist and xenophobic immigration crackdown was “too tough.”

During an episode of 60 Minutes that aired Sunday, host Ross Douthat asked Trump, “Do you think immigration hurt you in the midterms? Do you think the crackdown hurt you?”

Now, look, the last time Trump was on 60 Minutes, he damn near popped a Tang-flavored blood vessel in his forehead as he screamed “I’m not a rapist” when host Norah O’Donnell had only asked him about a gunman’s manifesto that didn’t even mention him by name. He’s blown up at reporters just for asking him if he’s “sick of traveling,” and for asking him about Republicans who didn’t show up to “Trumpapalooza.” He stormed out of his Meet the Press interview with Kristen Welker just because Welker had the nerve to ask him to back his constant election rigging claims with any semblance of actual evidence. He attacked Rachel Scott just for asking why he’s out here offering $5,000 bribes to voters.

The point is, one would have thought that questioning the president about the mass deportation agenda he’s been so proud of up until now would’ve had him storming out on Douthat and running to Truth Social to accuse him of treason and call for a DOJ investigation into him. Instead, Trump responded in a way no one could have expected: by sounding halfway sane.

“I think it both helped and hurt. I think I got an A plus for closing up the border. I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out,” Trump said, apparently citing some immigration report card I’m pretty sure he was imagining. “But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs — that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally.” 

Y’all — here at NewsOne, we have been reporting that the overwhelming majority of migrants caught up in Trump’s crackdown have been people who had no prior criminal record for nearly two years. Hearing Trump somewhat admit to it now should feel like vindication. Instead, Trumpy-come-lately is just pissing me off, especially because he’s out here pretending he’s not a member of the “far right.”

“But there’s a group of people that I would say on the sort of pretty far right that would like everybody taken out,” he said.

Seriously, I don’t like or trust this new introspective Trump. You don’t get to be a vile, bigoted, moronic propagandist for the last decade and then start working on your villain redemption arc in the last season of your shitshow. Nah, give me a racist, lying grandpa with baby accordion hands, or give me nothing at all.

Fortunately for me, Trump cares too much about clinging to the smidgen of popularity he has left to abandon his MAGA cultists completely, so, despite congratulating Democrats on Election Day and saying they did a “good job,” he’s back to suggesting the election was rigged on social media.

“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong???” Trump wrote Monday, implying, once again, that voting machines were rigged.

He also spent the weekend reposting every idiot who thinks their disbelief that voters voted the way they did is, in and of itself, evidence that they didn’t.

OK, there he is; there’s the Trump we all know and abhor.

Of course, there was never any reason to believe the Trump had some orange Grinch moment, where his heart suddenly grew three sizes, causing him to believe immigrants were human beings and put Democrats on his Christmas card list. After all, the White House did respond to Black people, women, young voters, and immigrant voters working together to send Republicans packing come January by posting, “FYI: DEI is dead” to remind us that white nationalism is still the administration’s political bread and butter.

He also called for a DOJ investigation into Democrats who are calling for the impeachment of his Cabinet members and other Republican officials, claiming the opposition is engaging in “extortion at the highest level.”

So, yeah, Trump ain’t changed, but he’s clearly having such a rough time coping that he doesn’t know which way is up anymore. He doesn’t want to alienate his base, but he seems to understand on some level that his policies, idiocy, and general personality are why nobody likes him and are a yuge part of why MAGA lost so bigly.

And we love that for him.

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