Trump Accidentally Reveals a Big Weakness on ICE Fiasco, Angering MAGA

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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At a rally, President Trump declared that he now may suspending deportations for farmworkers and other migrant workers. Trump openly admitted this will anger the “radical right,” by which he likely meant Stephen Miller and others who want every last undocumented immigrant in this country removed—or else. Indeed, leading MAGA influencers sharply attacked the move: One declared that it will “break” the MAGA coalition. The other flatly demanded that Trump keep on deporting “grandmothers.” We think all this should be understood as a display of weakness: Trump badly wants the public to think he’s considering relaxing his mass deportation regime precisely when Congress has given him tens of billions of additional dollars for it. We talked to journalist, historian, and podcaster Garrett Graff, who has a new piece on his Substack about what’s coming. He explains why rapidly expansion of Trump’s paramilitary force is so dangerous, how his effort to pseudo-moderate on deportations has exposed serious political vulnerabilities, and why he has no easy way out of them. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. Sergeant.
1:17.2	President Trump has done it again.
1:22.4	At a rally, he declared that his administration is now looking at suspending deportations for farm workers and other migrant workers.
1:25.4	Trump openly admitted this will anger the radical right, by which he
1:29.0	likely meant Stephen Miller, who suffers severe night terrors about the very possibility that he might
1:34.8	fail to humiliatingly frog march every undocumented immigrant in this country and many others onto
1:41.1	deportation planes. We think this should be understood as an admission of weakness by Trump,
1:47.3	both substantively and politically.
1:49.8	At a minimum, Trump wants the public to think that he's considering
1:53.1	relaxing his mass deportation regime at exactly the moment when Congress has given him
1:58.2	tens of billions of additional dollars for it.
2:01.7	And MAGA personalities don't like this at all.
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