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Velshi

Stalling, Punting, and Reversing Course: A Week in Trumpworld

Velshi

MSNBC

Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How Trump’s hot-and-cold approach to Iran, his back-and-forth on ICE raids, and GOP gridlock on his ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ is causing chaos everywhere; why Trump’s ICE raids, detentions, and deportations are changing not just immigration in America but the meaning of U.S. citizenship; and how the celebration – and the struggle continued this Juneteenth, amid the president’s anti-DEI crusade.

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0:00.0

Good afternoon to you. It's Saturday, June 21st, and you're watching Velshi on MSNBC.

0:14.0

I'm Charles Coleman, Jr. sitting in for my friend and colleague Alley, and we've got a lot to talk about.

0:20.0

We begin this hour with a divided MAGA movement

0:22.6

and the president sitting in the middle of it. We've seen Donald Trump's impulsiveness on display

0:27.9

before. Take, for example, his up and down, on again, off again tariffs. But this week,

0:33.6

the president is subject to deep divisions among his base on several critical issues.

0:39.1

And Trump is coming out of it looking less and less like the decider that George

0:44.1

W. Bush famously claimed to be and more like the undecider, punting, flailing, and reversing

0:50.4

his own decisions.

0:52.1

On Capitol Hill, the White House has punted on Trump's very publicly declared July

0:56.7

4th deadline to get his signature spending bill passed.

1:00.8

This, as Republicans have called it, a potential nightmare scenario, political suicide and

1:08.1

stupidity.

1:09.4

Conservative division also spilled into the open this week on the question

1:13.8

of Iran and whether the U.S. should get involved in Israel's escalating conflict. The president's

1:20.1

response? Another punt. Trump somewhat bizarrely announced publicly that he will decide

1:26.1

on a course of action in Iran sometime in the next two

1:30.1

weeks, which, as NBC News has observed, is something of a classic Trumpian stalling tactic.

1:36.4

And the president outright reversed himself this week on how his draconian immigration crackdown

1:42.1

is being carried out. Lobbyists for agricultural and that industry have been trying to get the White House to ease

1:49.5

up on immigration raids at farms, which all rely heavily on immigrant labor.

1:55.4

For a brief moment, it seemed to have worked last week after Trump himself indicated that

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