Rachel Maddow didn’t hold back Monday night. On her MSNBC show, she tore into Donald Trump’s desperate move to keep Republican senators in line on a bill she says has no chance of becoming law.
“Today, Donald Trump started threatening Republican U.S. senators that they better not vote against him this week on this tariffs bill,” Maddow said, highlighting how rattled Trump seems about potential GOP defections. “Trump appears to be freaking out that Republican senators are going to vote against him on it.”
And it’s not hard to see why. Maddow said the policy is wildly unpopular: “His tariff adventures are rating somewhere between lice and bedbugs in terms of their popularity with the American people.” She added, “And what Republican senator wouldn’t want to distance him or herself from that?”
With Trump’s approval numbers sinking, Maddow pointed out that even Republicans are trying to escape the shadow of his MAGA agenda.
“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.”
She didn’t stop there. Maddow warned that Trump might get even more reckless in a last-ditch effort to control the political narrative. She pointed to recent scandals, like the wrongful deportation of U.S. citizens and the arrest of a judge, as signs that worse could be coming.
“It’s insane,” she said. “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.”
With Trump approaching the 100th day of his second term, Maddow gave a chilling forecast.
“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.
Watch the video below via MSNBC.
