Tim Miller

I understand you're a citizen, but who knows?

You're kind of sort of making a joke, but you and I have had this conversation in person before.

I will tell you, so born in the Congo, my family's from Haiti, and my mother and all my aunties, Tim –

When I come on shows like this now, they immediately send me text messages and they say, you can't do this.

You have to be careful.

This is frightening because those are people who grew up under authoritarianism and they know it when they see it.

And they see Donald Trump's behavior.

They see how powerful people and institutions are bowing down before him.

And they see the...

retribution against powerful people like the Attorney General of New York State, Tish James, a former FBI director.

He's using every power in the government.

He's weaponizing the IRS, weaponizing the FBI, DOJ, etc., in a way that frightens people in my life who've had to flee authoritarianism.

So I appreciate...

The attempt at humor, but it is a real thing.

Sometimes things are so bad, the only way to deal with it is- I can't imagine being a Somali American in Minnesota right now, right?

Where the most powerful person on the planet has called your community garbage and says you need to be deported.

What's going to happen to Somali school kids in Minnesota?

How are they going to be treated?

I'm thinking about the Haitian refugees who were invited into Ohio by the Republican governor to fill jobs that were going wanting, who were then attacked by Donald Trump and J.D.

Vance and Marco Rubio and all these folks in a way that