Tim Miller

So folks are seeing the industrial sector jobs bleed away from their communities at a faster rate than they had been previously.

They heard all of his promises about bringing the jobs back from overseas.

And all they see is increased conflict and these bombings.

They're confused by the cruelty on immigration because they were really concerned about what they saw as a crisis at the southern border and the gates being swung wide.

And they wanted that to stop, but they were not asking for the person who's been, you know, stocking the shelves in Walmart, who they've said good morning to each of the last 10 years to be disappeared from our streets.

So they're just kind of confused

and disoriented by the cruelty there, by the masked agents and appreciating more and more each day that even though Donald Trump keeps pointing to these people and blaming them for everything, the Somalis are apparently responsible for everything.

It's not having any material, affirmative presence that's productive and constructive in their lives.

What do you think he's doing?

I've given up on trying to predict anything around Donald Trump.

What's really interesting is that for somebody who exudes all of this, the buck stops with me, he doesn't seem to be very much in charge of anything.

When he gets probed by reporters...

Like the other day, he was asked about his surgeon general choice, and he says, oh, I don't really know that person.

I'm just trusting Bobby Kennedy's pick.

Every time he gets asked about a policy or about personnel, oh, I don't really know.

It's this one, or it's this other person in my administration.

I think that in many respects, I thought somebody wrote something clever about this the other day.

Was it EJ Dionne?

In many ways, he's kind of formed out foreign policy to Hexeth, and even Stephen Miller is involved.

in it to a certain extent.