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Hey guys, just left MSNBC and had the chance to pop off to Nicolle about the tariffs, as well as the tepid reaction to them from the Republicans who are trying to figure out how to survive an impending Trump session. Check it out.
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The politics, the gravitational pull, the politics is that Republicans will lose both chambers. Why does Trump want that?
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Does he believe that? I guess. I don't know. This is all.

Tim Miller joins Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House to discuss the Trump tariffs tanking the economy and sending us toward a recession as Republican lawmakers do absolutely nothing.

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Cynthia Noel's avatar

So true. The challenge of the speaker is more recent than a decade. The outage of McCarthy went that way... challenged by Gaetz?

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Dawn leaf's avatar

Long time fan - direct truthful statements & assessments are what we need … thanks

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Chris Gay's avatar

Excuse my schadenfreude, but I'm enjoying this: https://chris88.substack.com/p/memo-to-maga-ce7

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Sharon's avatar

The MAGACANS are not going to stand truth to power. They’re relying on trump’s protection money. They’re afraid of trump’s alt-right militias in the form of death threats and retribution. Honestly, I think they believe trump’s campaign stirrings of a democracy-free America. (Vote for me this time, and you will never have to again, because it will be fixed) They truly believe, I think, that they will never have to depend on votes to keep their jobs again!!

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Sharon Herrick's avatar

Tim, this was such an excellent interview---I think it's one of your best. Seriously, everything you said was important and insightful. Your take on the deportations was also worthy of a rebroadcast. Thank you.

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Terence Rafferty's avatar

The entire global community is paying the price for Trump’s shitty family upbringing. Doesn’t seem fair.

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BlueRootsRadio's avatar

Trump voters f'd around and are now getting f'd. Some will bend over and ask for more but enough will get "woke" and not make that vote again. If we're not nuclear ash in 2026 Congress will get "corrected" and Trump's time will end in disgrace, impeachment or both.

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Fake American's avatar

I wouldn't be so confident. I'm guessing the average Trump voters capacity to stay ignorant, irrational, or happy to knowingly trade personal pain for "libtard" tears is high. My guess is it is mostly a knowing trade and thus the capacity will be near infinite until the Americans they hate are ground to dust.

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BlueRootsRadio's avatar

I think all of them with 401ks on the line are thinking differently. It's easy to throw them all in the same bucket because everyone else does. Yes, some will follow him into the Gates of Hell, but that cohort is not big enough to grind me to dust.

Fear is the absence of all hope. They act brave just like Trump. Don't confuse bravery with stupidity.

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Fake American's avatar

It's easy to throw them all in one bucket because nothing has fazed any significant faction of Trump supporters so far and yet the only thing that Trump consistently delivers on is hatred for liberals. That leads me to believe that is the shared goal that stitches their coalition together. The tariffs and stock market meltdown certainly harm the liberals even if there will be tremendous collateral damage so they'll probably be fine with it overall is my guess.

Maybe a handful of ignorant independents who just blithely switch sides every cycle based on vague economic vibes wise up and actually choose a side until Trumpism is soundly defeated (I have my doubts on that too) but the MAGA coalition isn't going to splinter.

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mary-jo amatruda's avatar

Has this administration done anything to improve the path to citizenship?

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mary-jo amatruda's avatar

I am feeling despair, all of a sudden. Maybe I am reading and listening to too much. I worry my community of anti 45ers is shrinking.

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Erin Flanagan's avatar

F E A R

False Evidence Against Reality

More of the world than ever is against Trump/maga. Each second that ticks by brings a new convert to the HANDS OFF camp. Expand your news sources to Instagram and Tiktok to see how pissed the youngest generation is. Check out international media to get evidence that Trump is despised. Read articles in the Guardian, Bloomberg, AP for widespread condemnation of everything Trump.

You're far from alone and actually have more friends and allies than ever. Get ready to meet some more on 04/19 during the next protest! The goal is 11 million people. That's 2x last time and totally doable!

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rawrxiv's avatar

And the rest of the world, who doesn’t even get to vote is strapped kicking and screaming while 30% of the US population let’s ‘jesus take the wheel’ and jumps out of the plane without a ‘chute.

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Art Steinmetz's avatar

There is a growing dilemma. Yes, the Republicans in Congress are afraid of being MAGAed in the next primary. Why are they afraid? To be obvious for a moment, they're afraid of losing their seat. Why to they fear losing their seat? Because they are addicted to the power their seat gives them. We get it. Yet, by acquiescing to Trump, they're giving away what they are most afraid of losing. Will any Republican Congressperson wake up to this?

P.S. "Murdoch Mysteries", set in the late 1800s, often makes amusing references to the modern era. In one scene a cop says to his boss, "Sir, we don't call them 'imbeciles' any more. It's considered demeaning. We call them 'morons.'"

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Erin Flanagan's avatar

I started with "Their logic" and then just quit.

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Nicole Cushing's avatar

Why aren't Republicans in Congress looking after their own electoral interests?

In asking this question, Nicolle is assuming that something close to ordinary, free, and fair elections will occur in 2026 to hold Congress accountable. But with abominations like the SAVE act on the table, and with Trump's recent executive order to nullify all state election systems and force them to adopt new ones, hers is a faulty assumption. Perhaps that's why there's not more dissent. They don't fear the electorate because there won't be any more real elections.

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sramsay's avatar

I think anyone who has a republican rep should call and urge them to be PRO ECONOMY and do whatever they need to do to turn this ship around. I know I am going to call Mike Lawler [once again--it is a daily ritual] and tell him that! I might even suggest that it would be seen as heroic to defy Mike Johnson.

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Julian W McKinnie's avatar

Discussing the tariffs, he delivered a story with the “sir” marker that indicates the story is false: “These countries are calling us up. Kissing my ass,” he told the audience. “They are dying to make a deal. “Please, please, sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, sir. And then I’ll see some rebel Republican, you know, some guy that wants to grandstand, saying: ‘I think that Congress should take over negotiations.’ Let me tell you: you don’t negotiate like I negotiate.”

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Kentuckistan's avatar

With oil dropping below $60 a barrel they're dropping below the break even on the Permian Basin. They can shut down fracking rigs in hours with a phone call and then lay those guys off in days. Red State is going to be on the leading edge of all this

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Kentuckistan's avatar

Are we still taking ball players from Japan and the Dominican Republic or do when have to send them some guys if we get some guys from there?

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Lawrence Serewicz's avatar

Quick FYI it is *not* elided /over/ it is simply elided as elude means to pass over something or ommit it....🤗❤️

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Kentuckistan's avatar

I think elude means skillfully evade a known obstacle or threat

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Lawrence Serewicz's avatar

I guess most folks forget what the GATT was or why it happened. Look it up. Would be useful to understand we have already been here and it is going the wrong direction.

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Stefan Tulich's avatar

Tim, good job on MSNBC. Now, I just watched Cam's interview with Tomi Lahren on the Bulwark's YouTube feed and it is NOT helping the cause. Please erase it from the internet. I enjoy what Cam is bringing on the FYPod, but his inability to coherently push back against Tomi's bullshit about the illegal deportations was beyond disappointing.

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Sean Dwyer's avatar

I am assuming that everyone who follows the Bulwark is not just appalled by the events of the last weeks but of the past nine years. Then again, I felt that the events of Jan. 6th warranted charges of insurrection. The capitulation of the Republican party to placate this despot has astounded me and I don't know if there will be a turning point.

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Elena Duarte's avatar

Appalled, terrified, angry. He should not be in our house, but it is Cell with no phone and restricted privileges.

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Judy B's avatar

What about this? Is this a negotiation that happened between the Saudis & Trump (or Jared Kushner) this past weekend along with LIV league talk? Or just another case of a foreign leader pulling Trump's puppet strings

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/04/08/oil-prices-fell-trump-tariffs

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Carrie's avatar

How is this coping again? Doesn't that require taking responsibility and taking action? What am I missing here?

Love you and Nicolle and you and Nicolle analyzing together.

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Carrie's avatar

Oh, now it's the Mean Stock Market who is picking on poor Trump.

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Kentuckistan's avatar

Orange Monday not Black Monday.....good one

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JohnnyMac's avatar

Yeah - and it won't be the last one we see this cycle.

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Erin Flanagan's avatar

Perfect. It was like my favorite cousin just crushed it! Love how you never stopped intro'g new facts & talking. Breath of fresh air.

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Tania's avatar

That was great Tim. Thanks for that.

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Eugenie Taylor's avatar

Damn good stuff Tim!

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Chris Hocker's avatar

A+ comments Tim. Trump is a moron, there is no there there.

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Barry's avatar

The pressure has to be put on Republicans in swing districts and states to stand up against tarriffs now!

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Bruce Lawrence's avatar

Not just Republicans, but Democrats too! There hasn't been a real pro-free-trade Democrat since Obama.

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monoview21's avatar

Tim et al - The goal is to destroy our government so that the oligarch capitalists can run amok with no oversight and make us screwing screws while they fuck us over.

Please refer to Dictatorship for Dummies - American Edition

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Lori P's avatar

I feel like Trump paid attention in 8th grade social studies and never learned a thing after that. So tariff is the only tax theory he kind of knows.

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Emy Donavan's avatar

It’s almost like Andrew Yang had a point.

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Lisa Spiegel's avatar

Great spot, Tim!

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Alli Gabriel's avatar

As a Nebraskan, I wouldn't put much faith in Don Bacon doing anything requiring courage or doing the right thing. He tries to talk out of both sides of his mouth so he can sell it to Nebraska that he is "bipartisan" since he needs the blue dot to vote for him.

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Glenn Reynolds's avatar

Trump was again spouting off and sending out on social media that “we”are collecting billions from these countries. Everyone with a pulse outside the cult knows the fact is the buyer pays. So he is either a moron - as you say - or a fragile egomaniac who can’t admit he was mistaken for years. Maybe the daily double. Media types don’t paint Bessent or Lutnick into an easy corner in Q&A on that point. The whole house of cards blows down on step 1. They should stop worrying about GOP guests not coming back. Even CNBC has gone soft.

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Katinka's avatar

Keep posting your clips please!

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Claudia johnson's avatar

Good job Tim!

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Mark's avatar

Navarro, with his academic colleague Ron Vara, should meet up with Trump and his “spokesman” John Barron.

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Left in WashState's avatar

"They elected a moron who bankrupted a casino."

Thanks Tim....that sums it up nicely.

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Elena Duarte's avatar

Only one casino? Everything he touch touches dies.

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John Conner's avatar

Tim’s just telling the truth. God, I can’t believe this MORON was elected.

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Lori W.'s avatar

This was a great hit, Tim. Well done.

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Does he believe that? I guess. I don't know. This is all.