Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday that he was so exasperated with President Donald Trump’s administration that he was struggling to refrain from “punching” his computer.
Carville’s comments on “The Situation Room” followed those of Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who claimed Sunday that Trump is “an enemy to the United States.” Carville said that he believes Trump might hate America, citing the U.S. vote against a European-drafted United Nations resolution addressing Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine and the president’s tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
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“People are flummoxed and I am too, because I’ve come to think maybe Donald Trump hates the United States … Look at Mexico. North America, for the past 20 years, has been an economic powerhouse,” Carville said. “I mean, if you look at the economic power of Canada, the United States and Mexico, it’s pretty impressive … Why is he doing this? Why is he doing this to [Ukrainian President Voldoomyr] Zelenskyy? Why is he voting with North Korea and Russia and God knows, Belarus in the United Nations?”
“And I just can’t get it out of my mind that I think this man, it’s some possibility, we have to consider the possibility that our president hates our country,” he continued. “People say no, he’s just full of resentment or something. And that could be true. But that does explain why he’s going out of his way to hurt the country at every juncture that he can.”
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Host Wolf Blitzer played Carville audio of Republican Missouri Rep. Mark Alford saying Trump’s tariffs could raise costs slightly, but that he supports them as he believes they will lower America’s national debt.
“Wolf, I’m trying to take a deep breath here so that I don’t come out of my chair and start punching my computer. But as I recall, when he ran, he was going to bring grocery prices down from day one,” Carville said. “And he was going to give relief to the American consumer … What are we, six weeks into this? Maybe not even that. And now he said, ‘Well, you might have to pay more, but it’s good for your country.’ Did anybody ever hear that?”
“Then you have what has to be one of the most colossally, I don’t know, funny, stupid or, what’s the word to it? The Secretary of Agriculture actually suggested people grow chickens in their backyards to deal with the price of eggs. So this is where we are,” he continued. “Yes, you’re going to have to pay more, but you’re going to like it. And if you want to help it a little bit, get some chickens and put them in your backyard … I’m not kidding.”
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The price of eggs has nearly doubled since November 2023, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, caused by the culling of tens of millions of chickens due to a bird flu outbreak.
“We’ve seen this with our own eyes and I’m sitting in this chair just, you know, trying to take a deep breath and say a couple of Hail Marys for strength, to again, to not just punch the computer in frustration,” Carville added. “But this is where we are, man. And we shouldn’t kid ourselves.”
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