Rachel Maddow

Ice out for good protest.

WSYX in Columbus, Ohio, killing our own citizens.

Ohio protesters call for ICE to leave, outraged by shootings.

WTXL in Tallahassee, Florida, protest and vigil at Florida State Capitol after deadly ICE confrontation in Minnesota.

I mean, all over the country, Wichita, Kansas, Charleston, West Virginia, East Cobb, Georgia, Rapid City, South Dakota, everywhere.

The American people are reacting instinctively to what Trump is doing to us now.

The American people are using their small-D democratic muscle memory to respond reflexively to what is happening, to use our right of free speech, our right to freedom of assembly, to use it to say no.

And from this point that we're in this place of profound weakness for this historically unpopular president, no president at this point in his second term has had approval ratings this low other than Richard Nixon.

And at this point in Richard Nixon's second term, he was less than a year away from resigning.

from this point of profound weakness and unpopularity for this president, fueled by near-universal moral revulsion at what he is doing to the American people, something that he apparently thinks he should respond to by becoming more extreme and more violent and more morally repulsive, thus radicalizing more and more American citizens against him every day, from this point of profound weakness and political malpractice,

Now he has decided to take a wild swing at the American economy and the U.S.

dollar by threatening the chair of the Federal Reserve with criminal prosecution.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell responded last night in an I will not be intimidated video statement.

Multiple Republican senators have responded with their own moral and political revulsion, saying not only that they're against what Trump is doing and they're supporting Jerome Powell, but, crucially, if this is how Trump is going to use the U.S.

Justice Department, then maybe it's the U.S.

Justice Department that needs to be investigated by Congress.

It's Republican senators saying that.

The Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is condemning this Jeremiad against Jerome Powell as well.

The rabidly right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial board is out tonight with an editorial calling this a, quote, self-defeating fiasco and a self-defeating scheme that should result in the, quote, firing of those responsible before they can be the cause of, quote, any more embarrassment.

And, you know, economically, maybe you voted for the Republicans because you thought, oh, Republicans, good with money.