The Rachel Maddow Show
Trump is a repeat loser as his slash-and-burn rampage collides with U.S. law
Wed, 19 Mar 2025
Rachel Maddow reports on yet another bad day in the courts for Donald Trump as he was made to restore jobs his top campaign donor, Elon Musk, had slashed, and was similarly made to restore USAID, another victim of Musk's DOGE, and lastly, had his anti-trans military policy rejected and was given a lesson in the language of the Declaration of Independence for good measure.
Who are the Trump voters and why are they disappointed?
Really happy to have you here. So these are Trump voters. These are people who voted for Donald Trump in this past election. They are all voters from Swing State, Michigan.
So by a show of fingers, who approves of what Elon Musk has been doing in the Trump administration? None of you. Who disapproves? All seven of you. Cheryl, tell me why you disapprove of what Musk is doing.
Because he wasn't elected to do anything. I don't understand his position. It's a made-up position that they made, department or whatever. And he's been going through with a sledgehammer, just... actually dismantling everything with the approval of Trump. So I'm almost at the point where did he actually buy the election to do what he wanted to do? Like who's running our country?
He was even in the Oval Office during a meeting with this kid on his neck. I feel like we are a reality show. America is. It's awful.
It's awful. And these are all Trump voters. This is an Engageus focus group done with Trump voters this past week in Michigan.
So someone listening to you folks might say, he was president for four years. You knowingly chose to put him back in office, having watched him in office for four years. It sounds like a number of you are surprised by what he's doing. How can you be surprised?
I don't feel like he was this aggressive last time. So I don't think anyone would have voted for him if they expected to see what we're seeing now.
I don't understand the need to make like piss every other country off. Like, Canada. Like, we love Canada, don't we? Like, I just, my whole life, there's never been a problem with Canada. And all of a sudden, you know, now we're, so we're, like, trying to create issues with Canada.
I don't know. I thought he was going to, like, change things with affordability and make things cheaper. But by, like, putting these tariffs in and terrorizing the world, now things are just going to get more expensive, I feel like, than they already are. So everything I believed was going to happen, I think, is going to go the opposite direction.
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