Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Monday morning after Trump loudly answered the question that nobody was asking, namely whether he learned anything at all from his disastrous midterm beatdown. Because of course he didn’t!
Grab some breakfast and let’s dig in!
Miller Time: Leading off, we’ve got the perfect encapsulation of post-midterm Trump in two things that happened at almost the same time. Late on Friday morning, Trump taped an interview with 60 Minutes conservative opinion interviewer (Yes, that’s a thing now) Ross Douthat, and made noises about a deal with Democrats on immigration.
Now, set aside the fact that he’s now blurting out the same thing Democrats have been saying since 2006, listen to how he describes the other side of the debate.
I think it might be too tough, yeah. And I think ultimately that hurt me. Well, the deal would be we would work something out. And I think it’s something—I think that’s something that’s actually doable. Yeah, Ross, when you go into a hotel and you have a woman that’s worked there as a maid, as a cleaner, as a this, as a that, as a waitress, a lotta good things, great jobs, and all of a sudden, they’re being taken outta the country, it’s tough. It’s a tough thing. But there’s a group of people that I would say on the sort of pretty far right that would like everybody taken out.
If that description rings a bell, it’s because as he spoke those words, Trump had already decided to appoint the literal king of the far-right anti-nonwhite-immigrant horde, Stephen Miller.
Hours after taping that interview, Trump sang Miller’s praises and claimed that, get this, he’s getting quote “great reviews.”
From who? Satan? The Emperor from Star Wars?
And then later, at Mar-a-lago, Trump called Miller a quote “hot commodity” and joked about firing him for being too popular.
Seems more like the lesson Trump took from the midterms was “MORE COWBELL,” if cowbell was racism and fascism.
Many in the clueless mainstream media will keep trying to normalize Trump based on these hints at moderation, but actions speak louder than words. Trump’s words AND actions say he is just as excited about Miller’s brand of brutal xenophobic repression as he ever was. And now he’s more powerful than Natalie Harp.
They normalize Trump to protect their access, and it needs to stop. Enough is enough!
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