Rachel Maddow

might be used on a different day to fly out a plane full of people in chains who Trump's agents had snatched off the streets or rammed off the road or pulled out of their car windows.

People were also upset that an aviation company called Daedalus was going to lease airplane hangar space at their local airport in Delaware.

They were upset about that because Daedalus was also flying these flights, these deportation flights for ICE.

And in both of those cases, public outcry worked.

Avelo got out of the deportation business.

They sold all their planes, many of them to ICE.

Now they're back to trying to be a normal passenger airline again, trying to wash that moral stench off themselves.

Daedalus, as far as we know, they still fly for ICE as well, but they don't also try to fly retail passengers.

And after the pushback from the public, they backed off their plans at Wilmington Airport as well.

And the Trump administration may no longer care what voters think of them.

They may think that Donald Trump and his ilk are never, ever going to be subject again to elections that control whether or not they still hold power.

But commercial, public-facing companies, they very much care what their customers think of them.

They have to.

Back in the first Trump term, 2018, commercial airlines discovered that that first Trump administration was using their flights to transport immigrant kids who had been separated from their moms and dads.

And a bunch of airlines, when they discovered that their flights were being used for that purpose, they told the Trump administration that they wouldn't do it anymore.

They asked the Trump administration to stop doing that.

Delta, at the time, said that family separation policy did, quote, not align with Delta's core values.

Well, that was then.

How about now?

Delta, are your core values, are your customers okay with this second-term Trump policy of family incarceration?