Michael Steele

To getting folks like you and me to suddenly, but more importantly, you know, the corporate entities that we work for to go soft.

Oh, well, I don't know if we should.

We've got to be careful.

We don't need Trump mad at us.

It's just two words that sum up what I feel about this administration and particularly this president in this moment.

And I think a lot more Americans are coming to those feelings.

And I think actions like this further those feelings in a way that I think, look, I looked at the 2026 elections in 2025 and in late 2024 and said the Democrats are in a position then

to pick up 35 to 40 seats in the House.

And I thought the Senate was marginally in play.

By the time I got to the end of 2025, it was at least 40 seats in the House and the Senate is in play.

As we turn the corner into this cycle, my friend, if I'm a Republican on a ballot,

2006 will look like a kiddie party compared to what's going to happen potentially.

If voters take the attitudes that are beginning to form and stew within them about how this administration is behaving, it is not addressing their core concerns about the economy.

It is not addressing their core concerns about jobs because a lot of folks have lost their jobs, particularly if you were a federal employee and are still unemployed and you were the only person who was bringing money into that household.

These are the realities that are happening across the country at kitchen tables every day.

And this administration is more sucked up on building a damn monstrosity of a frigging ballroom or having the president go to some bitch-ass premiere on a black carpet, whatever the hell that shit is, instead of governing the country.

Republicans stopped governing a long time ago.

And they've allowed someone at the helm sitting behind the Resolute desk who has zero interest in it, except for how much he can grift from the system, enrich his kids and his own personal coffers.

Tell me how the president makes a billion dollars in a year, people.

What was the crime?