Rachel Maddow Has Noticed This Startling New Thing About Trump

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow said President Donald Trump is becoming “more desperate and more reckless” as nothing he does appears to be changing public sentiment.

Maddow made the comments amid protests in Biddeford, Maine, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a man on Monday (July 13). It marked the second fatal ICE shooting in less than a week and one of almost a dozen under Trump’s second term.

“I know it sort of feels like a time warp, right?” Maddow said, per Huffington Post. “Like we are having one of these cycles in the news where things seem to be kind of circling around and chewing on their own tails a bit, right? All these feel like very familiar headlines.”

“Or at least very familiar themes, right?” she added. “Violent, poorly-trained, poorly-led Trump ICE agents killing people in American streets, American people in large numbers instinctively and instantly protesting against those killings… the Strait of Hormuz closed again.”

Despite signing a peace agreement, the conflict between the U.S. and Iran has continued, with more strikes and the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz.

“And the Reflecting Pool has again just been drained, and they are again having work done on it in a no-bid contract by the same Trump-connected firm that did such a great job on the Reflecting Pool the first time around,” Maddow continued, referring to the algae-plagued monument.

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She added, “A lot of these things feel like familiar headlines: Trump’s agents killing people in the streets, Americans protesting about it at the top of their lungs, Trump blowing it in Iran, Trump getting laughed at for blowing it in Iran, Trump’s lawyers getting laughed out of court. It’s like these things are static categories of news in the Trump era.”

While Maddow said the headlines don’t change, she noted that the response does. “Our understanding of his fixation changes. The pushback changes. The fight back changes and appears to be getting stronger and more fearless over time,” she stated.

“And that, in turn, pushes him to more and more and more desperate actions on these same things that he keeps acting on over and over again,” Maddow said. “As the pushback against him gets stronger, he gets more and desperate and more reckless in the way he acts out.”